The beneficiaries who are second-year students pursuing various degree programmes will be supported through their tertiary education, while they also undergo grooming to take up leadership roles.

Eleven young women and nine men  would this year undergo a three-year programme, unlike the first batch of 14 who started the programme last year.

They are from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), University of Ghana, Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ), University of Professional Studies (UPS), University of Allied Sciences, University of Mines and technology (UMAT) and University for Development Studies (UDS).

Emulate Kufuor

Speaking at the scholarship award ceremony in Accra yesterday, a renowned playwright and public speaker, Mr James Ebo Whyte, admonished the beneficiaries to seek knowledge, be unique, have faith, obey their calling, be unstoppable and respect themselves and others.

“Accumulate knowledge, stand out by being unique. There must be something special about you. Have faith and believe that the impossible is possible. You must be unstoppable such that nothing can keep you down. Discover your calling and obey it. Finally respect yourself so that others will respect you,” he urged.

He said such traits would help keep the legacy of former President Mr John Agyekum Kufuor, the founder of the foundation, and make them good leaders as well.

“Mr Kufuor transformed politics in Ghana by showing how a politician can show genuine love to people of all walks of life  and respect humanity,” he said.

Mr Whyte urged the winners to lead lives that would leave a befitting legacy for their children and future generations.

Laudable interventions

The Minister of State for Tertiary Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah, said interventions to groom the youth into effective leaders were laudable .

He expressed concern over the deficit of leadership in Africa and Ghana. “We see retrogression, leadership is on a downward spiral, he added.

He said he was happy that the beneficiaries were chosen purely on merit from the various universities.

To reduce the government’s burden of financing education, Prof Yankah called on private bodies to buy into the educational agenda that the government was pursuing and support it.

After the students had pledged to abide by the virtues of integrity, accountability, transparency, love for nation, patriotism in business and governance, they were presented with certificates of induction into the programme.

The awardees, who would also receive a certificate of completion after the three-year programme, also pledged to be studious, diligent, support their fellow scholars, be devoted to national development and promote values which would make Ghana great and strong.

Grooming

In an interview, the Chief Executive of the Kufour Foundation, Prof. Baffour Agyeman-Duah, said each student would receive a GH¢2,000 stipend every semester and would in the course of the three years take part in seminars, mentoring sessions, interactions with former President Kufuor and other leaders, community services programme and internships.

He explained that the rationale behind the programme was to equip the new generation of leaders with the right mindset to transform the country.

“Some traits and values such as nationalism, accountability, integrity and patriotism are not taught in our main stream education. So we try to inculcate these values in them and that will help them to be unique wherever they find themselves,” he said.

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Source: Graphic.com.gh

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Speaking at the meeting, Chief Moomen, writer and producer of the series, said his team has been working hard over the past two years to package and present Ghanaian history in an exciting manner in order to engage audiences.

The former President was full of praise for the team for the important work they were doing.

He was optimistic that they could help foster reconciliation between various political factions that still harbour some hostility from the independence era.

He promised to support the production with some resources and to come see the next production.

Following a successful run  over the independence weekend, WogbeJeke: Our Journey, which is an exciting reconstruction of Ghana’s history through drama, music, dance and poetry is set to stage at the National Theatre on the 15^th and 16^th of April, 2017.

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By: Jeffrey Owuraku Sarpong/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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According to the World Food Program only 1 out of 3 children suffering from malnutrition receive adequate medical attention while 24  percent of all child mortality cases in Ghana are associated with under-nutrition.

Addressing the press at the signing ceremony at the residence of the former president, Special advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and Board Chairman of the Millennium Promise Alliance Prof. Jeffrey Sachs said the partnership will help Ghana to achieve Sustainable Development Goals through enhancing the problem-solving skills of youth leaders with information technology.

“The Millennium Promise Alliance has had several projects in Ghana. We want to work in practical areas of leadership where the Foundation has taken the lead.”

“We discussed youth leadership and we have agreed that in 2017 we will hold a worldwide conference in Accra as part of our joint partnership of young leaders promoting the Sustainable Development Goals. We will be working on agricultural initiatives, information technology initiatives, nutrition initiatives, health care initiatives, and generally to work together to promote the SDGs.”

Ex-president Kufuor in his address underscored the need for strong partnerships to equip the youth of Ghana in transforming Africa through information technology.

“We need very strong partners to leap-frog into the mainstream of the rapidly advancing. With a man like Prof. Jeffrey Sachs as a partner, we know we are onto a good thing. I believe our youth have gotten the basic education and knowledge that will enable them use the extension of technologies that is needed to help in transforming our society to set an example in the neighbourhood of our continent.”

“Our continent at large is felt far behind at large. But this continent should be the continent of this century. And we can only catch up with the rest of the world when we use the partnerships offered to us through the agencies of the United Nations ad similar institutions”

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By: Caleb Kudah/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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