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As part of activities to mark its 85th anniversary, the Krobo Old Girls� Association (KOGA) in partnership with the Students� Representative Council of the school has donated items worth GH�1,500 to the Bright Future Orphanage at Odumase in the Eastern Region. The items, which consist of sachets of water, treated mosquito nets, Papso fruit juice, clothes, shoes, biscuits, toiletries, rice, dozens of socks and beverages, was to support the orphanage in its quest to provide education and shelter for the less privileged. Donating the items, Mrs Catherine Tagoe, vice president of KOGA, said the association decided to support the orphanage since it was in the same locality with Krobo Girls High School. �As mothers, we feel children around here and everywhere should have some sort of education and a feel of parenthood. Children in the Krobo Girls School are more privileged to have their parents catering for them, but these orphans don�t so we decided to support them,� she said. She was hopeful that the donation would go a long way in supporting their upkeep, and added that the association would include supporting the orphanage in its yearly activities, especially during their Founders� Day celebrations. Mrs Tagoe advised that Ghanaians should cultivate the habit of helping the less privileged in society, adding that �as the Easter festivities approach we should all endeavor to support the needy as we celebrate. We can locate other orphanages hidden in the various rural and less privileged areas and not only the SOS, Osu Children�s Home and the rest to make some donations.� Receiving the items, the founder of the orphanage, Mrs Peace Vivian Anim, thanked KOGA for their support and she said the donation would go a long way in supporting the upkeep of the children. �I believe that when we all educate our children then there would be to nothing like irresponsibility on the part of any parent because when you have been to school before then you would know how to send your own child to school. What I am doing is sowing the same love I was given by others. I was also an orphan, but was privileged to be raised by former Deputy Minister of Education Mr Samuel Amissah,� she said. She was hopeful that the children under her care would also grow showing love and care for others which would in the long term promote responsibility. Mrs Anim said the school was established 13 years ago to cater for the orphans in the society, adding that the school currently had about 230 children under its care. She said she had several other schools in other less privileged areas. The Headmistress of Krobo Girls, Mrs Cecilia Obenewa Appiah, thanked the Old Girls for the gesture and promised her support for the orphanage. She said the school would be prepared to support girls from the orphanage through their secondary education. Mrs Appiah together with Mrs Tagoe decided to support two girls in the orphanage through their education and with their daily upkeep. Other activities to mark the celebration included a float through the principal streets of Odumase, a cooking competition, Azonto night and a special thanksgiving service.