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Ghanaian celebrities,Verna Mineral Water join forces to help autistic children

Beverage maker; Twellium Industrial Company went out of their way to help autism which affects approximately one in every 150 children.

Juliet Ibrahim alongside other Ghanaian celebrities have joined the Twellium Industrial Company to put the spotlight on autism and support scores of children.

The passionate Juliet Ibrahim is the founder of the Juliet Ibrahim Foundation; a non-profit, nonpartisan organization focused on creating awareness on diseases such as autism and other diseases at large. She was recently named an ambassador of autism in Nigeria.

The company treated autistic children with the vision of being models to a special photo shoot on Saturday 18, Nov 2017.

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Autism is a highly variable neurodevelopmental disorder, which usually affects children at the early stages and presents among other things, great communication and emotional challenges for them.

Speaking at the event Juliet Ibrahim said “it is imperative for Ghanaians to be educated about ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) to stop the stigmatisation that is usually associated with autism".

It is sad that in Ghana, some people attribute autism to witchcraft, and in the process, ostracise the affected persons instead of providing an enabling environment for them to be able to gain crucial therapy which will give them the independence to assimilate into ‘conventional’ society, she added.

Naa Ashokor also raised concerns about the need to care for one another.

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Other celebrities and models who graced the occasion to support the course include Deborah Vanessa, Afi Antonio, Anita Akuffo, Victoria Lebene and Charlotte Debrah.

The highly successful event also saw the re-branding of the bottle of Verna drinking water to a more stylish one.

Twellium Industrial Company Ghana Limited also have a foundation to manage social projects aimed at enhancing lives of the poor and disadvantaged in society.

Key areas the manufacturers of Rush Energy Drink,Run,Verna bottled water among others would focus on include; health, scholarships for brilliant but needy students for pupils across the 10 regions of Ghana as well as business development for rural women.

Twellium Industrial Company begun operation in Ghana on February 28 2014. Twellium is a proudly Ghanaian registered producing company with a multinational management team.

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It brings to the Ghanaian market beverages that have been on the American and European markets for over 30 years as a franchise from the Monarch Beverage Company of Atlanta, USA.

The company has the franchise to produce and market the products in the West African Sub-region.

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