The sixty-one orphans of the Bamenda based, Good Shepherd Home orphanage, Abongoh, including the management of the orphanage were all smiles on Friday October 30, when the proprietor of Dr FRU’s Garden of Eden International Healing and Research Foundation, Dr. FRU Richard donated ten bags of rice and eight cartons of powdered milk to them.

Presenting the most needed gifts, Dr. FRU stressed that his foundation has been reaching out to the needy decades ago, but kept it a secret. He said finally God told him to make his philanthropic activities public so that other needy ones could call his attention to their plight.

Dr. FRU said his foundation launched a health crusade in order to eradicate the greatest virus on earth which is ignorance. “We educate and sensitize people on health issues and equally make them know that life is war so that they don’t go to bed and sleep like children without fighting for survival”. He lauded the efforts of the proprietress of the orphanage, Sr. Jane Manka’a who has chosen to embrace the parentless without which they would have been suffering from mental physical and emotional torments.

Encouraging Sr. Jane to continue with her philanthropic work, Dr. FRU said one of the orphans could one day be the Head of State, Minister or Director in Cameroon. He emphasized that the gift have no strings attached to them because he is not a politician and is not canvassing for any votes. “We know that giving food, shelter or clothing to the needy, is Godly and we are doing just that. We have already been blessed by God and so we need no help again”.

Beside the rice and milk, Dr. FRU also eked out a special plant called; “king plant” to the management of the orphanage. He said the plant has several powers and so heals people of several diseases if properly used. “I call on you of this orphanage to eat it very often like vegetable and see the wonders it will create because no child will fall sick of stomach problem again”.

Taking the rostrum, Sr. Jane who hailed the Dr. FRU’s Garden of Eden International Healing and Research Foundation for the gesture, said Dr. FRU has encouraged them so much and promised to continue with the work till death do her part. Observing that Dr. FRU’s activities especially healing, are genuine Dr. Jane said she was marveled when Dr. FRU quoted the people so often like a theologian.

According to Sr. Jane, she has written to the government several times but government has never though of reaching out to her orphanage except individuals like Dr. FRU who know what it means to take care of the parentless children. She said by giving to the orphans, Dr. FRU was directly giving to God “because these children shall never repay you”.

Designating Dr. FRU as the ambassador of the Good Shepherd Home Orphanage, Dr. Jane noted that the orphanage has an annex in Batibo Momo Division. She averred that the Good Shepherd Home Orphanage as of now has sixty-one children, five of them in the high school and twenty-one in secondary schools.

According to Sr. Jane, most orphanages demand money from parents before admitting children “but here, we do not take any franc from anybody before admitting any orphan.

The Divisional Delegate of Social Welfare for Mezam, Mbakwa Tayong Thomas, who disclosed that he himself was an orphan at the age of six months, wondered how he struggled to be somebody today. He told the orphans that they were all very lucky to have been accommodated and educated by Sr. Jane in a mansion while some of their colleagues were roaming the streets. “You eat very good food and drink tea here but during my time, I lived only on sweet palm wine because there was no milk”. He thanked Dr. FRU’s Garden of Eden International Healing and Research Foundation for reaching out to the needy. “I knew Dr. Fru only as a healer. Today I know him as Dr. Fru the philanthropist”, he opined.