{"id":106586,"date":"2015-04-08T21:23:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T21:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=106586"},"modified":"2015-04-09T14:20:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T14:20:55","slug":"stanbic-bank-donates-5000-to-cope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=106586","title":{"rendered":"Stanbic Bank donates GHC 5,000 to COPE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stanbic Bank has donated a total amount of GHC 5,000 to Citi FM\u2019s Citi Opportunity Project on Education (COPE).<\/p>\n<p>COPE is an educational initiative that seeks to provide scholarships to brilliant but deprived students to further their education within various secondary schools and universities in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>COPE has over the years supported students who cannot pay for their fees due to various reasons.<\/p>\n<p>A recent graduate of the University of Ghana and a beneficiary of COPE, Mary Mensah, revealed how the project took her up and paid the full cost of her four-year degree programme.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_106588\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106588\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Mary-MENSAH.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-106588 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Mary-MENSAH.jpg\" alt=\"Mary MENSAH\" width=\"630\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Mary-MENSAH.jpg 630w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Mary-MENSAH-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Mensah graduated from the University of Ghana, thanks to COPE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other beneficiaries of COPE include Henrietta Amador (a second year student of the University of Ghana \u2013 Accra City Campus), Nicholas Quarshie (a first year student of the University of Ghana) and Eron Ansah (a first year student of the University for Development Studies).<\/p>\n<p>A full scholarship for a student in Ghana\u2019s public universities costs between GHc 4600 to GHc 5400. \u00a0The COPE Projects seeks to raise GHc 250000 to fund at least fifty brilliant but needy students in the various institutions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanbic Bank has donated a total amount of GHC 5,000 to Citi FM\u2019s Citi Opportunity Project on Education (COPE). COPE is an educational initiative that seeks to provide scholarships to brilliant but deprived students to further their education within various secondary schools and universities in Ghana. COPE has over the years supported students who cannot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":106589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,16],"class_list":["post-106586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}