The Ghana Football Association (GFA), through its foundation, the Ghana Football Foundation, has donated logistics and football equipment to prison officers and inmates at Nsawam Medium Security Prison in the Eastern Region, On July 16, 2024.
The donations form part of the GFA Foundation-Ghana Prisons Project, an initiative that uses football to promote rehabilitation, reformation, and reintegration of inmates into society.
The Nsawam Medium Security Prison received football items including jerseys, footballs, goalkeeper gloves, football hoses, whistles, and caution cards (yellow and red cards).
The Nsawam Medium Security Prison is the fifth prison to benefit from donations from the GFA Foundation. The other four prisons that have benefited from the initiative are the Senior Correctional Centre (Borstal Home) in the Greater Accra Region, Sunyani Male and Female Prisons in the Bono Region, Akuse Local Prison, and the Winneba Local Prison in the Central Region.
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In excerpts of his speech, the Director of the GFA Foundation, Malcolm Frazier Appeadu, mentioned three main objectives of the prison project.
“The first objective is the donation of the football items and logistics; the other two were the formation of coaching and refereeing training programmes for inmates and officers, and advocacy workshops to sensitize the public and the citizenry on the negative impact of discrimination and stigmatization of prisons and prisoners,” Malcolm Frazier Appeadu said.
He further cautioned the inmates to turn over a new leaf so they do not return to prison again after they are discharged.
Assistant Director of Prisons, Patrick Thomas Seidu, who serves as both the Acting Eastern Regional Commander of Prisons and the Officer-in-Charge of the Nsawam Medium Security Prison, expressed his gratitude to the GFA Foundation for the donations made to both inmates and officers.
He further commended the GFA President, Mr. Kurt Edwin Simeon-Okraku for developing such a project.
“For thinking about the inmates who are in prison, it’s my prayer that other corporate bodies and organizations will emulate what the GFA Foundation is doing for the less privileged in society”, ADP Seidu added.
The donations ended with a football match between prison officers and inmates of the Nsawam Medium Security.
