Story by: Ishmael Barfi
The Concern Volta Citizen Education Fund (CVC Education Fund) has awarded scholarships to fifteen brilliant but needy students from the Volta region to further their education in their respective universities.
These Fifteen students consist of eleven (11) males and four (4) females and area of studies ranges from medicine, Law, Planning, Vetinary Medicine, Accounting, Physician Assistant and other sciences.
Speaking at the Scholarship Awards Ceremony on Saturday, 22nd January, 2022 in Accra, the head of the CVC EduFund Management, Mr. Charles Nornoo tasked the awardees to concentrate on their studies and ensure they do what is expected of them as students hence achieving their goals.
Concern Volta Citizen Education Fund Awards Scholarship To 15 Brilliant Students
To him, the scholarships to these students is to motivate them on the need to give back to the society as well as support the development and growth of the region.
“It is time the indigenes invest in the future of these young ones for them to realize their goals and return back to the region to contribute their quota to the development and growth of the Volta region”, he noted.
To achieve this, Mr. Nornoo revealed that, each awardee is tasked to embark on a Community service project during their studies.
This he said is one of the key component of the Scheme explaining that, this would change lives as well as enhance the skills and knowledge of the Awardees in their respective field of interest.
Concern Volta Citizen Education Fund Awards Scholarship To 15 Brilliant Students
Furthermore, to create avenue for these students to visit their respective villages for the first time and also help them to appreciate the challenges in the Volta Region.
Mr. Charles Nornoo therefore urged the Awardees to be of good behavior and ambassadors of the Volta Region in their respective universities.
Gracing the occasion, the Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa praised the management of the CVC EDUFUND for such initiative for the region.
Explaining that, the Volta Region in terms of human resources is underprivileged, hence the need to invest in the younger generation to fill up the gap in the region.
The North Tongu MP hinted that, in the health sector, the Volta Region is under resourced regarding to health professionals especially indigenes.
This he said makes it difficult to get a health personnel for the various health facilities citing the newly built health facility at Battoir.
Hon. Ablakwa therefore tasked the awardees to study hard, be discipline and focus that, they can achieve their respective goals in their choose field of interest.
On that note, he assured the CVC EduFund Management of his numerous support to ensure the Scholarship Scheme continue to run to support brilliant but needy students in the region.
This year is the second cohort of students under the CVC EduFund Scholarship Scheme for brilliant but needy students and saw the number increased from nine (9) for last year to fifteen (15) students this year.
These fifteen awardees represent the geographical area of the Volta region and the breakdown are as follows: Hohoe-2, Ketu North-3, North Dayi-1, Anloga-2, South Tongu-1, Ketu South-2, Akatsi-1, Afadzato South-1, Kpando-1 and Keta-1.
The CVC Education Fund Scholarship Scheme is to provide financial assistance to brilliant and needy students in the Volta region as a way of encouraging indigenes to seek for academic excellence.
This is also to enrich the skills and human resources of the region, hence have sufficient human resources in all aspect of profession to uplift the image of the Volta region.
CVC EduFund is made of senior citizens both home and abroad of the Volta region who sees the need to give back to the region as well as invest in the human resources to enable the region to have enough pool of human resources in all sectors to contribute to the development and growth of the Volta Region.
Source: www.thenewindependentonline.com
