5 Students receive Unilever Foundation bursaries

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09-02-09

THE Unilever Foundation for Education and Development (UFED) has presented bursaries worth $5,000 to five postgraduate students of the College of Health Sciences at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
Each of the beneficiaries received a cheque for $1,000. This brings the total amount spent by the foundation on postgraduate students at the college to more than $30,000 over the last six years.
The beneficiaries for the 2008/2009 academic year are: Messrs Wise Chukwudi Letsa, Dominic Selorm Amuzu, John T. Ayivase, George K. Kpentey and Seidu Mahmoud Abdulai.
Presenting the cheques, Mr Andrew E. Quayson, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of UFED said, the foundation had been committed to providing financial support for students of the college who chose to remain in the country to give back to society what taxpayers had contributed to their professional training.
“That is why to date UFED has invested over $30,000 to help these health professionals to pursue higher studies in their chosen fields to better their lot as well as that of the nation, Mr Quayson stated.
Mr Quayson entreated the beneficiaries to remain in the country to enable the younger ones benefit from whatever they had studied and urged them to continue with their good work to help others in the country through health care delivery.
For his part, the Deputy Provost of the College of Health Sciences, Prof. Andrew Anthony Adjei, expressed his profound gratitude to the foundation for helping medical students in the country.
He said postgraduate training played an important role in producing highly efficient and competent graduates.
Prof. Adjei said the college had MPhil and PhD students who were doing very well, adding that most of them were not working but relied on scholarships to go through their studies.
The Deputy Provost, therefore, appealed to the foundation to increase the number of beneficiaries from the package.
Mr Seidu Mahmoud Abdulai, a beneficiary, on behalf of his colleagues, thanked the foundation for the kind gesture and promised that they would remain in the country to help others.