FAITH BAPTIST CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER LAUNCHES CHILD SURVIVAL PROGRAM

Faith Baptist Church of Mafi-Zongo supports 289 children ranging from 3-14 years of Age. The church has a child development center known as Faith Baptist Child Development Center which is an extension of the church's sunday school.

The Church partner with Compassion International Ghana, a Non Government Organization, It is a Christian none profit making Organization who want to Release Children from poverty in Jesus' name.
 It is against this mission of Compassion International Ghana, that propel the church to partner with her and expand their sunday school to the vulnerable, the lost child and the neediest of the needy.

As part of their program, Faith Baptist Child Development Center has come into being in 2012 and had several interventions for beneficiary children across all the neighboring communities like Seva, Adiekpe, Korfedeke, Manase, Amarika, Kpedzeglo, Mawoekpoe and Adape.

"We want to release these children from poverty, that is why we see each individual as a project. Considering a child as a project will help you to strategically tackle issues that needed to be addressed so that, a child will grow and become a fulfilled Christian Adult. Anytime Faith Baptist Child Development Center speaks, you will hear Holistic Child Development, this is what we are for and this is our common language " Pastor Maclean Dogbey said.

At the launch of the intervention, the guest speaker said research has shown that pregnant women go through alot before giving birth. And as matter of fact some of them give up the ghost because been not having enough blood, not generating enough blood by eating balance food, have no health facility to attend or there is no money to take care of themselves and the unborn baby.

Due to the factors enumerated above, some the mothers or the infants passes on while delivering or dye after they been delivered. Even at times those that were delivered may have some deficiencies. Some of this deficiencies may be malnutrition and brain malfunctioning.

"For us to solve and developed these children holistically(Cognitive, Spiritual, Physical and Socio-Emotional), why can't hold the bull by the horn or tackle the issues from the root by supporting the caregiver who is pregnant? We want to do what we can do so that we have one voice raising these children and among other things bring the children and their caregivers ir mothers to know God, Love God and Worship God, Mr JahRule Jackson Gozzah the Project Director said.

Alot of several activities were carried out during the launch such as a display of drama by the older beneficiaries, choreography, exhibitions of art and craft, project band and display of sandals and shoe made by the project leatherwork.

Beneficiaries craft work
"This is what we doing, this is what we will do. We want to follow the foot step of Jesus so that all this children will grow in wisdom, grow physically, have favour with God and have favour with me.


When this Jesus baseline is well implemented, we will have a generation that will bear good fruit. We will sacrifice our lives,we will protect them against abuse and torture, said Kudemor Ernest Posy, the Social Worker of the project.

The Partnership Facilitator's Supervisor Pat Dotse, from the CIGH office in her key note address acknowledges the hard work of the Church Partner Committee, the Pastor, the Child Development Workers, the caregives executive, the caregivers and opinion leaders for supporting and maintaining peace for the continuation of the sponsorship.

But she is quick to mention that, there is more to be than on the way the community is handling child protection issues. She said it against the laws of the land for anybody to hide any torture, rape and defilement on any individual. She then urges the congregants to be the watch dogs for the vulnerable in the community especially, children and women.

After all is said and done.  A room that is purposely made for the infants was unveiled by the District Chief Exercutive, Hon. Moore Zonyra, Central Tongu District.
He encourages the parents to capitalize on this intervention and give the needed support the Child Development Workers so that the best can be derieved and their children to become a better person for the nation.

Unveiling of simulation room by DCE

He also encourages the community leaders and every household to have a toilet facility to do away with open defaecation which he said is also one of the government agender of making our villages, cities and towns clean. He concluded be saying the child development center can write any proposal to his office and the district on projects that are concerned with child protection.

He pledged his support for the Project and said this are the organization that can help the government and for that matter Ghana to attain some of her programs.
The theme of the launch is *" Reducing Infants and Mother Mortality, a Collective Responsibility For Hoslitic Growth".*

Pictures showing craftwork, simulation room and DCE and Dignitories

              THE UNSPOKEN TRUTH
The brewer brews it to his own knowledge been transferred from his father, brother or any other relatives that is largely involved in the distillation of the locally distilled alcohol known  as " akpetetsi"

I have the doubt everytime i was told the *sodabi*, another name for akpetetsi, has come out from palm wine.
How possible can something like that comes from palm wine has been the one out of many rhetoric questions that comes into my mind anytime i have heard of Akpetetsi.

Today, my doubt is cleared when i visted Blewusi, the master brewer of *Lebene* *Brewery*, a local brewery company in Mafi-Agoe, in Central Tongu District, Volta Region of Ghana.
A friend of mind told me they distilling some akpetetsi around and want us to go and have a look at it. I quickly agreed to this because i think it is an opportunity for to have a fair idea about how the whole thing is done and it might also give me a platform to learn.

Early enough we set of to the place where brewing is taking place. You will be shocked when you are exposed to the art of modern technology that is been applied in the factory.
" We do not spent much in making this factory because we move from place to place base on the availability of raw materials. You can see it yourself, how much will this rubber cost, how much will be involved in buying this tanks and tubes? We spent less but make alot of cash out of this", the master brewer said.
Waooo! I exclaimed. So how did you learn this? "The learning is simple. It is not like going secondary school or university to learn books, it is very practical and taking of instructions serious and very soon you will become your own master. I was eighteen years when i help my father to taped palm wine and brew akpetetsi out of it for only once, and that is where i started doing my own". He said.

I then throw my mind back to those days at school when were learning separation of mixtures and one of the topics that we treated was *distillation*, and i have realized that the process involved in making akpetetsi and that of distillation in our science subject is the same.
The question that comes to my mind is, if this is how the whole thing is done why can't our teachers organize some sight visit so that we can all understand this concept once and for all? I rhetorically asked myself.

I further ask the master brewer that i could see a fire under a tank, a tube connecting the tank, passing through water and finding it ways in a gallon, what is the importance of all this to your work?.

"The tank contains the fermented palm wine that we kept for about three weeks and the fire we set under it will let it becomes very hot and will start evaporating. The tube connected to tank will then collect the vapour that comes from the heat or the evaporated palm wine, then then the water will cool the vapour in the tube and it becomes the *Zorkele* that we working on.
In an amazement, i put my hands together and said that is brilliant and magical.
So if that is that case how will you know the amout of heat you applied is okay? "That is where you to be careful and observant and takes instructions. Because i know people say there something that you can use to measure the heat but we don't have it here so what we do is to look at the flow of the liquid substance and adjust the fire to it pepepe like that.

I have seen it myself. I have my doubt cleared and it is nice to see something good myself.
So what do you will improve your work and make you a big man? "We will become  great people if government or any individual can give us a helping hand by modifying our work with equipments this can also be one of the factories promised by President Nana Addo and we can all also give direct employment to 1000 of Ghanaians". He said
So education started ways back and it is only been transferred from one individual to another with just spoken words and it is still working.

What is your judgement? Did ever have chance to listen to this unspoken truth? It is fact that someone has inverted this and was here before the arrival of Europeans and for that matter education and it will last for ever and ever.
The brewer brews it to his own knowledge been transferred from his father, brother or any other relatives that is largely involved in the distillation of the locally distilled alcohol known  as " *akpetetsi*"

I have the doubt everytime i was told the *sodabi*, another name for akpetetsi, has come out from palm wine.

How possible can something like that comes from palm wine has been the one out of many rhetoric questions that comes into my mind anytime i have heard of Akpetetsi.

Today, my doubt is cleared when i visted Blewusi, the master brewer of *Lebene* *Brewery*, a local brewery company in Mafi-Agoe, in Central Tongu District, Volta Region of Ghana.

A friend of mind told me they distilling some akpetetsi around and want us to go and have a look at it. I quickly agreed to this because i think it is an opportunity for to have a fair idea about how the whole thing is done and it might also give me a platform to learn.

Early enough we set of to the place where brewing is taking place. You will be shocked when you are exposed to the art of modern technology that is been applied in the factory.

" We do not spent much in making this factory because we move from place to place base on the availability of raw materials. You can see it yourself, how much will this rubber cost, how much will be involved in buying this tanks and tubes? We spent less but make alot of cash out of this", the master brewer said.

Waooo! I exclaimed. So how did you learn this? "The learning is simple. It is not like going secondary school or university to learn books, it is very practical and taking of instructions serious and very soon you will become your own master. I was eighteen years when i help my father to taped palm wine and brew akpetetsi out of it for only once, and that is where i started doing my own". He said.


I then throw my mind back to those days at school when were learning separation of mixtures and one of the topics that we treated was *distillation*, and i have realized that the process involved in making akpetetsi and that of distillation in our science subject is the same.

The question that comes to my mind is, if this is how the whole thing is done why can't our teachers organize some sight visit so that we can all understand this concept once and for all? I rhetorically asked myself.

I further ask the master brewer that i could see a fire under a tank, a tube connecting the tank, passing through water and finding it ways in a gallon, what is the importance of all this to your work?.

"The tank contains the fermented palm wine that we kept for about three weeks and the fire we set under it will let it becomes very hot and will start evaporating. The tube connected to tank will then collect the vapour that comes from the heat or the evaporated palm wine, then then the water will cool the vapour in the tube and it becomes the *Zorkele* that we working on.

In an amazement, i put my hands together and said that is brilliant and magical.

So if that is that case how will you know the amout of heat you applied is okay? "That is where you to be careful and observant and takes instructions. Because i know people say there something that you can use to measure the heat but we don't have it here so what we do is to look at the flow of the liquid substance and adjust the fire to it pepepe like that.

I have seen it myself. I have my doubt cleared and it is nice to see something good myself.
So what do you will improve your work and make you a big man? "We will become  great people if government or any individual can give us a helping hand by modifying our work with equipments this can also be one of the factories promised by President Nana Addo and we can all also give direct employment to 1000 of Ghanaians". He said
So education started ways back and it is only been transferred from one individual to another with just spoken words and it is still working.

What is your judgement? Did ever have chance to listen to this unspoken truth? It is fact that someone has inverted this and was here before the arrival of Europeans and for that matter education and it will last for ever and ever.