The Ghana Red Cross Society has appealed to the government and corporate entities and the general public to support it undertake charity projects.

A priority project is the establishment of First Aid units on the country's highways to aid in the swift response to accidents.

The Ghana Red Cross Secretary General, Kofi Addo, explained that a similar unit stationed on the Tema-Accra Motorway has been of great benefit, however, his organization needs some financial support to keep it running.

He explained that volunteers who manned the unit must be given remuneration to support their transport and feeding as they seek to serve humanity.

He believes a partnership with the corporate institutions could help reduce some needless death during accidents due to the lack of first aid knowledge. 

Mr. Addo announced that this forms part of his organization's aim of ensuring every household has at least one person who has knowledge in providing first aid. 

He explained that Ghana Red Cross does not have a dedicated funding support, hence had to appeal to the Federation and people in the Western World to support initiatives. 

"We think it is high time since we classified ourselves as a middle income country to bring on board corporate Ghana. We are talking of the mining companies, the oil companies, the telcos, the banks and even the simple market women."

"We should bring them all onboard so that they can all contribute their widow's mite to support the Ghana Red Cross", he said.  

He detailed that it was the aged and school children who sacrificed their meal money and donated it to the society to provide support to victims of the Appiatse disaster and implored Ghanaians to pick a cue from the development. 

He said the Society is undertaking a comprehensive review of the Ghana Red Cross Act, to make it mandatory for the government to provide support to the Society. 

Mr. Addo said his organization has built about 300 housing units for flood victims in northern Ghana; adding that cash will be sent to identified victims of the Appiatse explosion through the cash voucher system. 

He added that with $5 million support from Nestle Ghana, small community water systems are being constructed in selected communities in the Ashanti and Eastern Region.

"When Covid came, people were complaining they don't have access to water to wash their hands, so we are providing each region, a minimum of about 3 mechanized boreholes, so that people can have access to water and then wash their hands", he said.