The Official Opening of the House of St. Francis

The Official Opening of the House of St. Francis is expected to take place in late November, 2012 but the House is ready to receive people who want to recover from addiction to drugs and alcohol.  Byron Merriweather and his team of volunteers from the Oyarifa Oxford House are working closely with the Catholic Archdiocese of Accra to get the House ready to do its work. When he met the visiting university students at the House on May 31, Fr. Francis Adoboli said that “it looks like God had another plan for the House of St. Francis; to use it release suffering alcoholics and drug addicts from the bondage of addiction”. Mr. Sylvester Adu of the Narcotics Control Board said that “we are moving away from the DEA style. We don’t want to arrest people only to see them back on the streets. We need to treat those who are addicted”.