CECON donates to accident victims

STORY: CHARITY A. SACKITEY

As part of its corporate responsibilities, Challenge Entrepreneurship and Cooperate Network (CECON), a non-governmental organisation, has donated items worth GH¢500 to the 37 Military Hospital in Accra.

The organisation and also promised to help educate drivers and other road users to ensure an accident-free Christmas.

The items- which included toiletries, detergents and other food items- were part of a number of donations by the CECON to mark World Accident Victims Day, which fell on the 21th of this month.

Donating the items to the Accident Ward of the hospital, the CEO of Ghana Automobile Distributors Association (GHADA), Mr. Thomas Pelletier, said the NGO in conjunction with other corporate bodies, will do everything possible to help ensure accident-free Christmas this year.

“We would see to it that there are strong vehicles on the roads and also educate drivers to ensure that careless driving is avoided in the country to prevent road accidents,” he stressed.

On her part, the officer in charge of Information Technology at KASAPREKO and a victim of road accident, Mrs. Angela Ofori-Atta, used the opportunity to advise road users in the country to always observe traffic regulations, explain that that was the surest way to avoid road accidents.

The patron of the network, who lamented how she lost her daughter through road accident three years ago, urged drivers to be very careful when driving, adding that one’s life can change within a minute through road accident.

“I support the work of CECON for what they are doing for the nation to prevent road accidents by educating drivers on road safety tips and the need to observe road signs,” Mrs. Ofori-Atta noted.

She therefore called on churches, mosque and charity organisations to join CECON in the crusade of preventing road accidents in the country.