- The actualization of this organization was August 10, 2008, the registration date and official commencement of activities. The state of North Carolina in the U.S.A. has already granted tax exemption to MAIOC. The organization was fully operational by January 15, 2009. The organization has already achieved its short term goal of acquiring a one acre peace land in Afienya – Tema.
- The Internal Revenue Service, U.S.A. has granted tax exemption (501 c3) to Maranatha International Orphanage Center.
- The Organization has put together a monitoring team members (Field Directors, Clergy, Opinion Leaders of the communities, Chiefs and Ghana Social Welfare Representatives, men and women of integrity and faithfulness that are helping us to ensure that all monetary and other support gets to the orphans and the needy. We were able to purchase an acre of land in Afienya-Tema, Ghana, West Africa and the Organization is planning to put up a permanent structure for educational, medical, food and clothing distribution.
- The Organization has set up a local office
in Afienya-Tema, Ghana, West Africa where Mrs. Matilda Mensah and Senior administrator, Mr. Humphrey D. Narh, our Field Directors, and a few volunteers are making sure the needs of the children are met. They also send us monthly progress reports.
- Currently a place has been rented and renovated to start a daycare for these precious children. A 40- foot container with children’s toys, bicycles, tricycles, school tables and chairs, play station, key boards, set of drums, PA systems and about twenty computers were shipped in August of 2010 to start the school project.
