Emerging real estate giant, Castle Gate Estate, last Friday gave true meaning to the social responsibility concept when it donated cash and assorted items valued at GH¢6,000 to the Save Them Young Mission Incorporated, an Ashaiman-based orphanage.

The food items comprising 10 bags of rice, three large gallons of cooking oil, four boxes of canned fish and four boxes of tin tomato.

Other items included two boxes of key soap bars, two boxes of Ariel washing powder, several bundles of toilet rolls and 350 bags of sachet water all worth GH¢5,000.

Managing Director of Castle Gate Estate Incorporated, Mr Redeemer Worwui described the donation as a token, adding that his outfit has always believed in the spirit of giving back to society. The gesture, he said, falls in line with the company’s own set tenets.

“And Particularly for orphanages within our areas of work we are so much concerned and would go every length at contributing our quota, small as it may be, towards inmates so that they could keep heart and soul together,” the managing director stated.

He informed the enthusiastic orphans and their ‘mothers’ that the donation was one of many Castle Gate intends making in the coming months and assured that, the kids will always have a shoulder to cry on in the real estate institution.

Mr Redeemer Worwui also advised the orphans, aged from months to early teens, to dedicate themselves to the ideals and commands of God Almighty aside taking their studies serious.

Reacting to the gesture and the pieces of advice, the orphanage’s administrator, Mrs Rosemond Mensah, on behalf of the orphanage, thanked Castle Gate Real Estate Incorporated for the timely show of benevolence at a particularly difficult economic time and pointed out that the source of funding for the orphanage has always been a big bother.

She continued that a host of challenges confront Save Them Young Mission Incorporated which has a population of 70 orphans and a staff population of 12 mothers to shoulder what she said was “a herculean burden.”

Administrator Rosemond Mensah enumerated some of the challenges such as providing healthcare for the kids, emptying the septic tanks, providing education and stationery, school uniforms and clothes as well as feeding.

She assured that the ladies mothering the orphans could do more if there was a constant flow of motivation from benevolent members of the public and appealed for funds saying “we honestly can do more if we had more funds.”

Mrs Mensah, a marketing personnel, revealed that going by what was offered the mothers vis-à-vis the quantum of care for the orphans the whole exercise was voluntary and sacrificial.

She stated how the Social Welfare Department continues to bring over abandoned or orphaned children without providing any form of accompanying budgetary support and cautioned that unless assistance comes raining in consistently, the orphanage’s resources would obviously grind to a halt.

The Save Them Young Mission Incorporated started off as a training habitat for deprived teenage mothers in 1996 but metamorphosed into an orphanage in 2009 under the mentorship of Rev. Dr Paullen Opoku-Amoabeng.

According to Mrs Rosemond Mensah, the joy of all mothers of the orphanage reaches the high heavens whenever the kids do exceptionally well in higher education.

Early on, Operations Manager of the Castle Gate Estate, Mr Adu Kwadwo listed a host of homes and land for sale at Tema Community 25, Katamanto, East and West Legon, Haatso, Shai Hills, Kuntunse, Kasoa, Afienya and Prampram and invited the general public to do well to patronize them, so that a percentage of the accrued cash could be channeled towards taking care of those down the social ladder at communities the institution operates.