By Ameenu Shardow
An amount of 2000 Ghana cedis has been donated as the first trench to the Retired Footballers Association of Ghana by Division One club, Inter Allies.
Another donation of similar magnitude was made by the NHIA towards the endowment fund aimed at catering for the deplorable plight of the retired footballers of which most of them won laurels for the nation.
The philanthropic gesture was done during a short ceremony to officially enlist all members of the association onto the National Health Insurance Scheme.
"We are very grateful for this gesture done today because some of our member who in fact won the four African titles for Ghana have become destitute," Renfag chairman Ibrahim Sunday said.
"These are heroes who played for the national team without monetary consideration but have now become liabilities to themselves and their families."
The occasion was also used by RENFAG to appeal to cooperate bodies to come to their aid and was also used to medically screen participants.