Twin foundation to set up education fund (15/7/09)

THE Catholic Twins Society (CTS),a twin foundation within the Roman Catholic church is expected to institute an educational fund for needy brilliant twins in the country.
The fund is to afford needy twins the opportunity of accessing quality education to be able to achieve their ambitions in the future.
This was disclosed by the Spiritual Director of the society, Rev. Fr. Raphael Atta Donkor at the fifth anniversary and feast day celebration of the Patron Saint Thomas the Apostle, a twin, in Accra.
He said giving the needy brilliant twins the opportunity of accessing quality education,would also help them contribute their quota to the development of the country.
He charged twins in the Catholic Church to fully participate in voluntary and benevolent activities to aid social development.
He stress the need to foster corporation within the twin foundation to help them achieve targets they set for themselves.
Rev. Donkor encouraged twins to let society see their special potentials in order for them to be recognised as such.
He said it was the Society’s aim to stop all rites that were not in conformity with the principles of the church involving twins.
The Founder of CTS, Mrs Lucy Tawiah Peprah, called for the abolishment of some native rites, such as “Abbam” performed on twins in the country.
She said such rites performed on twins had psychological impacts on them and made the twins feel their lives were dependent on some gods.
She added that such rites should to be streamlined in order to maintain and inculcate the positive ones into Christian principles.
She said practices where twins were exploited and used as instruments for begging on the streets, a popular practice in the Moslem community, had to be discarded.
Mrs Peprah said as part of efforts to check the menace, the CTS had rehabilitated some parents and supported them to undertake various trades to help them cater for their children without having to beg.
She said twins were special and influential people, adding that, it was important for them to unite and fight for their rightful positions in society and fight for other twins in the society.
She said one of CTS's main aim was to get twins out of the streets and give them the needed attention they deserved.