NLA's Good Causes” Foundation Donates To Accra Psychiatric Hospital As Part Of Its 60th Anniversary Celebration
Freeman Koryekpor 
The National Lottery Authority (NLA) through its “Good Causes” Foundation has donated items to Accra Psychiatric Hospital to support the lives of the mentally ill patients in the hospital.
The donations aimed at improving the livelihoods of mentally challenged persons in the country as the NLA celebrates its 60th years of establishment in Ghana by the First President of the Republic of Ghana, Osagyefo
Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
The items donated are cooking oils, bags of rice, sardies, toilet rolls and other detergents.
The foundation also donated a cash of GH¢ 50,000 to support activities of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital.
Speaking in an interview with the journalists after the donation of the items, the Deputy Director General of National Lottery Authority, Madam Anna Horma Miezah said the donation forms part of 60th anniversary of NLA of which they have set the month of December aside to do good cause activities to which they visited Accra Psychiatric to show them some love.
Madam Miezah explained to media that the lottery money is use to support the society.
On her part Public Relations Officer at the Accra Psychiatric, Madam Francisca Ntow expressed appreciation to NLA for the items and called on other institutions including churches to enrich them with support during this Christmas festival.
According to her, their suppliers have stopped providing them food stuffs because they owed them.
The National Lottery Authority has launched its charity arm, intended to spearhead the authority’s corporate social responsibility as well as sustain its quest to create a shared value that bonds all stakeholders.
The charity arm, which is named the ‘Good Causes Foundation’, has the objective to develop, implement and maintain an integrated action plan based on four main pillars – education, health, youth and sports development, and culture.
The education pillar will focus on awarding educational support to brilliant but needy students, provide infrastructure and logistics support to educational institutions and sponsorship for programmes that meet the objective of the foundation.
In the area of health, the foundation has focused on infrastructure support, training mental health workers, hospitals supplies and medical outreaches.
Youth and supports development has covered capacity building for the youth, providing support for SMEs owned by young people, sports development, and innovation and entrepreneurship development among the youth.
The Foundation’s cultural pillar also supported projects that seek to safeguard and protect Ghanaian cultural values. It covered sponsorship for cultural events and educational programmes.
