The First Lady has today formally accepted her appointment as the Patron of SOS Children’s Villages Ghana by SOS Board at a ceremony at SOS’ Tema Community Six Children’s Village. In her acceptance speech, Rebecca Akufo-Addo expressed gratitude to the organization for the honour.
She assured them she will do her best to bring to bear on her new role her decades of experience in working to improve the well-being of children, especially through her two Foundations. Mrs Akufo-Addo said working with children “is her life’s passion” and her two foundations, Infanta Malaria Prevention and The Rebecca Foundations, have provided her with “the structure and focus to do even more for children.”
According to her, in the course of her work with children, she has seen pain, dejection, neglect and gross abuse of children. However, she noted she has seen hope, joy, recovery and a second chance given to a child because somebody stood to make a difference in the life of a child.
