Joberg Foundation’s Taking The Homeless Home Awards, a collaboration between the foundation and Mypagegh.com, an online news portal, is an awards scheme that seeks to put smiles on the faces of homeless Ghanaians across the country. The foundation is the charity wing of the Joberg Construction Company.
The foundation, through a team, identified 5 people whom they found to merit the award and who were subsequently interviewed for voting. A mother of five (5), Mrs Salomey Gyamea, has emerged the overall winner of the second edition of the ‘Taking The Homeless Home Awards.’
For her prize, she was presented with a one-bedroom house at Katamanso in the Greater Accra Region together with an undisclosed amount of money.
A Board member of Joberg Foundation, Ambassador Tenkorang, who was assisted by the Board Chair, H.E. Dr Mokowa Blay Adu-Gyamfi, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Foundation, Joseph Magnus Marteye, and board member, H.E. Victor Smith, presented the keys to the house to Mrs Gyamea.
Earlier, in a welcome address, Ambassador Tenkorang explained that the awards formed part of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of the foundation.
“As part of the company’s corporate social responsibility, goodwill and contribution towards the socio-economic development of society, Joberg Ghana Limited, through the Joberg Foundation, in collaboration with Mypagegh.com, an online news portal, initiated “Taking The Homeless Home Awards.”
According to him, the project started in 2022 with a one-bedroom house donated to Madam Helen Kaleyi, who was the winner of the maiden edition which event took place on January 3, 2023.
“Today we are gathered here to witness the handing over of another one-bedroom house to Madam Salomey Gyamea, who emerged as the winner in the second edition of “Taking The Homeless Home Awards 2023,” he said.
The Board Chair of the Foundation, Dr Mokowa Adu Gyamfi, asserted that the board was well pleased with this project, “and it is with great pleasure and pride that we give our full support to project.”
She reiterated that the foundation was committed to the socio-economic, physical and mental wellbeing of the Ghanaian society.
It was against this backdrop that she said the foundation was determined to provide decent homes to the needy and vulnerable in society.
“Our major goal and concern in this project is to identify hardworking and less-privileged Ghanaians who are inclined to break away from the vicious cycle of poverty and improve their standard of living,” she explained
Dr Adu Gyamfi used the opportunity to commend the media houses who have been supportive of the project.
In a brief remark, the CEO of Joberg Construction Company and the Foundation, Joseph Magnus Marteye, thanked everyone who had supported the project.
“This is our small way of giving back to the society and to put smiles on the faces of vulnerable hardworking homeless Ghanaians,” he said.
For her part, Salomey Gyamea (the winner), whose eyes were filled with tears and who could not believe what she was witnessing, thanked the foundation for the gesture and asked for God’s blessing for the management of the foundation.
She was also grateful to Ghanaians who saw her plight and voted for her to be given a home having lived in a makeshift structure for a number of years with her 5 children.
The first and second runners-up received undisclosed amounts of money from the foundation.
