Boresah Royal Foundation, West Africa STEM Hub donate prosthetic hand to 13-yr-old boy
Losing a hand or an arm doesn’t mean losing independence. Thousands of people across the world have lost all or part of an upper limb due to accident, infection, cancer or diabetic neuropathy.
The Boresah Royal Foundation (BRF) in partnership with West Africa Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Hub, have donated a prosthetic hand to a 13-year-old boy from Sawla in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District of the Savannah Region.
The West Africa STEM Hub has a close association with the Western New York STEM Hub, USA and YALI Regional Leadership Centre, with the CEO of Vodafone Ghana, Patricia Obo-Nai as a member of the council.
Founder of Boresah Royal Foundation, Queen Boresah Fantevie in a statement said: “With this new hand, Issahaku whose father is from Mandari in the Bole Traditional area is positive his son can do all he couldn’t do in the past and will grow to become an inspiration to all”.
Queen disclosed that the next beneficiary of the project is the 5-year-old boy from Abura Dunkwa whose arm was amputated early this year after his stepmother assaulted him with a cutlass.
“Our next beneficiary is the young boy Kofi who was abused by his step mum and lost his hand as was reported in the news sometime ago. He’s currently in the care of the Gender Minister and doing fabulous”, she said.
Mother of the boy, Hajia Marian Issahaku, said she was thankful to all who have volunteered in the restoration of joy in her family.
On his part, the District Director of Health Services, Dr. Zakariah Abdul-Kassim thanked the groups and all other partners for bringing hope to this family and all their enormous help to the district in the past.
The Hand in Hand’s vision is to become that catalyst for change and to develop tools and services that will not only bridge the gaps in the child welfare system, but to also create new models of support for families in crisis.
Thanks to the Western New York STEM Hub, ARI, UNESCO, NRCCD, YALI RLC and the Ministry of Gender for making the dream a reality.
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