TWENTY-FOUR commercial sex workers in Kumasi, who went through an NGO rehabilitation programme, are set to receive start-up capital to establish small-scale businesses that will keep them off the street.
The NGO, African Enterprise (AE), said the reformed sex workers were taught various vocational and technical skills to become self-employed during the one-month rigorous training.
Rev Dr Stephen Mbogo, International Team Leader of the Christian NGO, who made the disclosure to the media in Kumasi, appealed to churches in the country to help absorb the reformed sex workers in order not to get them frustrated.
According to him, the prostitute rehabilitation project forms part of the International Christian NGO’s evangelization programme to the cities of Africa, through word and deed in partnership with the church.
“AE has come to understand that deeds of services to those in need is a way of demonstrating the Kingdom of Heaven,” he noted and added that the NGO held a strong view to a holistic approach to evangelism, thus reaching out for the man’s total needs – both spiritual and physical.
He explained that the NGO had come to Kumasi to partner with churches so as to share the peace of God with the people in the metropolis, indicating that everybody needs “this peace which is found solely in our relationship with God.”
Rev Dr Mbogo said Ghana needs peace, especially in this election year, and therefore appealed to the citizenry to continuously draw close to God for the Almighty to lead the country safely in this challenging period.
“Ghana is an elder brother to other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, having been the first to secure independence from colonialism, and having done much to reach out to and help other African countries,” he posited.
The Minister of the Gospel appealed to the citizenry to speak with decorum on various political platforms, churches and workplaces so as not to inflame passion.
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