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Some of the elated beneficiaries
Some of the elated beneficiaries

Plan Ghana, Prudential Insurance support 550 students

Five hundred and fifty senior high school (SHS) brilliant needy students across the country have been provided with educational scholarships to the tune of $500,000.

Funded by Plan International Ghana in partnership with the Prudential Life Insurance Ghana, the programme which is also targeted at destitute students will ran for five years.

So far, the first and second batches of 100 and 80 students respectively have received their packages.

Sixty per cent of the beneficiaries are females and as part of the package, the students were camped for a three-day residential summer literacy programme on budgeting, banking, savings and insurance.

Plan Ghana

At the opening ceremony in Kumasi last Monday, the Programme Support Manager in-charge of Strategy for Plan Ghana, Mr Asum-Kwarteng Ahensah, reiterated that the programme, among other things, sought to reduce the financial burden on parents and guardians.

He quoted the 2016 annual report of the Ministry of Education, which established that only 49 per cent of students who qualified for SHS could afford the cost of education, a situation he attributed to poverty.

Mr Ahensah lauded the management of Prudential Life Insurance for their unflinching support and further appealed to other corporate bodies and philanthropists to come on board to support Plan Ghana in its bid to “sow seeds in young minds”.

Mr Asum-Kwarteng Ahensah (in smock), the Programme Support Manager (Strategy), Plan Ghana and other dignitaries in a group photograph with some of the beneficiaries. Those with them include Mr Kwabena Twum-Barimah (seated 2nd right), the Chief Information Officer, Prudential Life Insurance

Prudential Life

The Chief Information Officer of Prudential Life Insurance, Mr Kwabena Twum-Barimah, said the organisation would continue to create the enabling environment for young people to gain knowledge in finance, business and banking to enable them to build a sustainable future for themselves.

He urged the beneficiaries to study hard to justify the investments made in them for the benefactors to do more to help build a better society for all.

Mr Asum-Kwarteng Ahensah (right), the Programme Support Manager (Strategy), Plan Ghana, addressing the beneficiaries during a mentoring session held in Kumasi

Beneficiary

One of the beneficiaries, Ms Barbara Adjei, who is a form two student of the Serwaa Nyarko Girls’ Senior High School in Kumasi, told the Daily Graphic that but for the timely intervention of the donors, she could have ended her education prematurely.

As the eldest of five siblings, Ms Adjei believes that the scholarship will help reduce the financial burden on her parents in order for them to equally cater for her younger siblings.

She commended the sponsors for their timely intervention in empowering the beneficiaries towards the realisation of their dreams.

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