CDH Financial Holdings has built and fully furnished a home at an estimated cost of GHC350,000 at the Village of Hope at Gomoa Feteh in the Central Region. The multi-purpose self-contained home was completed within a matter of six months, and it has enough room to comfortably house 48 children, but it would house only 24 children, each with their own bed. It also has two master bedrooms for the couple who will take care of the children and for a guest couple when the need arises. It is the 10th multi-purpose apartment to have been constructed for the village, and the first to have been built by a Ghanaian corporate organization since the inception of Village of Hope 30 years ago. The first nine were constructed by individuals and organizations from abroad. Executive Director of CDH Commodities, Martin Asamoah, who commissioned the building on behalf of CDH Group Chief Executive, Emmanuel Adu-Sarkordee noted that the donation of the building was in commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of the CDH Group. He said the company chose Village of Hope because of the efficient application of resources to the care of the 214 children at the village. “We have been to several orphanages but we realized that in this village when you give them money or any resource they actually use it to care for the children unlike some of the other orphanages where there are reports of misappropriation of resources,” he said. Martin Asamoah recalled that his boss, Emmanuel Adu-Sarkordee developed the passion for Village of Hope on his first visit to the village through the initiative of a CDH staff member. “On Mr. Sarkodee’s first visit he donated GHC5,000 to the village, which is the biggest amount to have been donated by a single individual to the village and he promised to build a home for the village,” he said. He said the money used for the building was drawn from the mother company, CDH Financial Holdings, and from the individual workers of all the companies within the group, including CDH Commodities, CDH Asset Management, CDH Securities, Ivory Finance, Phoenix Insurance, and Phoenix Life. CDH also presented several boxes of reading books to the village and promised to finance the regular maintenance of the home dubbed “CDH Home”. “We can assure you that this is not be the last time we are supporting Village of Hope because we believe the village is using the resources to provide the children first class education, health, and nutrition and making those needy children into valuable human capital for the country,” Martin Asamoah said. He also assured the village, that as head of CDH Commodities, he would ensure that the children in the school got enough food to eat. Managing Director of the Village, Fred Asare was full of gratitude to CDH, particularly because it was the first Ghanaian corporate organization to have built a landed property in the village. “Such wonderful gestures only bring us closer and closer to our dream of making Gomoa Fetteh the Compassion Capital of Ghana,” he said. He said the Village currently houses 214 ‘orphans and destitute children’ drawn from all 10 regions of the country, and now runs a school called Hope Academy, which provides education from the crèche-nursery to the JHS level, plus a new SHS called the Hope College. Fred Asare said the Village also runs a fully-fledged hospital, which does surgeries and now delivers at least 15 children every month. “People come from communities in and around Gomoa Fetteh to the hospital and we are happy to provide them with high quality health care,” he said. He noted that currently the Village also sponsors 33 students at the tertiary level, and 35 in top Senior High Schools across the country, all through the support of the Church of Christ and the generosity of individuals and organizations like CDH.