Five brilliant but needy students are to benefit from a scholarship scheme of 17 thousand Ghana Cedis to enable them pursue their three-year programs at their various tertiary institutions.
They are Gladys Gyan, Michael Addo, Theophilus Tetteh- Mensah, Juliet Okyere and Anita Acheampong.
The beneficiaries received the first tranche of their package worth five thousand 600 Ghana Cedis at a special ceremony at the Wesley Methodist Church at Dodowa in the Dangme West District of the Greater Accra Region on Sunday.
According to the Connexional President of Methodist Guild,Jonathan Bassaw, this year’s figure brings to 26 the number of brilliant but needy students sponsored by the Organization since the scheme was initiated nine years ago.
He said the Guild took that initiative as its complimentary efforts to help produce human resource for the country.
Mr. Bassaw announced plans to extend the scheme to apprenticeship and suggested to the Dioceses to emulate that example.
The Past Lay President of Methodist Church Ghana, John Pratt,congratulated the awardees for towering over their contemporaries to be chosen as the beneficiaries and challenged them to let the sky be their limit in order not to make the investment go down the drain.
He commended Methodist Guild for their initiative as well as their plans to extend the facility to those in the informal sector to enable them also acquire skills and be self employed to ease the unemployment problem confronting the country.
Preaching the sermon,the Somanya Diocesan Bishop, Rt. Rev. Alfred Aryeetey, advised the students to take the scholarship scheme as a call and use it to rebuild their individual capacities.
He said it is the power of the holy spirit which calls human beings and strengthen them to deliver but not through themselves.
Rt Rev Aryeetey entreated leaders in various positions not to usurp powers but nurture their subordinates in order to take over the mantle in their absence.
He also commended the awardees and challenged them not to be complacent but go the extra mile in their studies to prove to the pubic that they deserved it.
On behalf of the awardees, Theophilus Tetteh–Mensah promised not to disappoint the Connexional Guild but ensure that they study hard to come out with “Olive Leaves” for their investment to yield fruitful results.
The awardees were from Obuasi, Kumasi, Akim Oda, Accra and Somanya Dioceses of the Methodist Church Ghana.
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Five needy Students get Scholarship for Tertiary Education
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