Despite Donates Cash, TV, Fridges, Other Items to Widows and Orphans to Mark His 60th Birthday

Despite Donates Cash, TV, Fridges, Other Items to Widows and Orphans to Mark His 60th Birthday

  • Ghanaian business titan Dr Osei Kwame Despite has donated cash, food, and electronic items to people in his hometown
  • The money and items are to be distributed to widows and orphans in Wiamoase in the Ashanti Region
  • Dr Osei Kwame Despite embarked on the kind gesture as part of activities to commemorate his 60th birthday

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Business magnate, Dr Osei Kwame Despite, has made a huge donation to residents of his hometown, Wiamoase in the Ashanti Region on his 60th birthday.

The Ghanaian media colossus, who is famed for his philanthropic gestures, is commemorating his 60th birthday today, February 2, 2022.

In celebration of the milestone, Despite visited his hometown, where he gifted GHc100,000 to the community.

Dr Osei Kwame Despite
Despite Donates Cash, TV, Fridges, Other Items to Widows and Orphans to Mark His 60th Birthday. Photo credit: UTV
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Other donated items

Aside from the huge amount, the CEO and founder of Despite Group also presented items, including television sets, standing fans, clothes, bags of rice, cooking oil, burners, blenders, among others.

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YEN.com.gh gathered that the items are to be shared among widows and orphans in Wiamoase.

Heartwarming visuals of the benevolent deed have been uploaded on social media.

See the photos and a video below:

Earlier, YEN.com.gh reported that the Ghanaian millionaire gifted two duplex houses built in his hometown in the Ashanti Region to his sisters, Maame B and Sister Mary.

He arrived in an expensive vintage car at the airport before jetting off. He flew from Accra to the Ashanti Region with his East Legon Executive Fitness Club, sporting white shirts.

Dr Osei Kwame Despite has made similar donations in the past, including police stations, hospital wards, among others.

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Meanwhile, a Ghanaian couple, Juana Antwi and her pensioner husband Peter Afriyie Kwarteng, who welcomed quadruplets after 15 years of marriage, has received help.

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Juana, 46, and her 66-year-old husband welcomed the quads, two males and two females, on Monday, October 4, 2021, through a caesarean section. The pair had since been struggling to provide for the four babies.

In an interview with YEN.com.gh, Juana expressed excitement about becoming a first-time mother but noted that they need help to make ends meet.

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Nathaniel Crabbe (Human-Interest editor) Nathaniel Crabbe is a journalist and editor with a degree in Journalism from the Ghana Institute of Journalism, where he graduated in 2015. He earned his master's from UPSA in December 2023. Before becoming an editor/writer of political/entertainment and human interest stories at Asaase Radio, Crabbe was a news reporter at TV3 Ghana. With experience spanning over ten years, he now works at YEN.com.gh as a human interest editor. You can reach him via nathaniel.crabbe@yen.com.gh.