Vodafone sponsors engineering students
Vodafone Ghana, a telecom operator, has provided sponsorship for five female students under its Female Engineering Students Sponsorship Programme.
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The students are from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and the Ghana Telecom University College.
The Director of Human Resource at Vodafone Ghana, Mrs Stella Agyenim-Boateng, commended the students for their selection, which was based on merit.
She explained that the Female Engineering Students Sponsorship Programme was Vodafone’s initiative to give opportunities to female students reading engineering at the tertiary level, and that the package for the sponsorship programme included the payment of academic user fees, money to buy books, free airtime, internship, National Service and full employment if possible.
Mrs Agyenim-Boateng said through its Discover Programme, the selected students could get the opportunity to further develop their potentials at Vodafone, even after their National Service programme, and also acquire working experience abroad through its Columbus programme.
Good attitude
She urged the students to exhibit good attitude in order to be able to fully develop their talents.
The Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Ghana, Mr Harris Broumidis, said diversity and inclusion was key in the operations of the company, hence the female sponsorship programme.
He urged the students to be eager to learn and hungry for success to enable them to fulfil their dreams.
Mr Kwame Agyekum of the College of Electrical Engineering at KNUST expressed the hope that the programme would be sustained to enable other brilliant female engineering students to benefit.
He said the College of Electrical Engineering at KNUST had other students who would be doing their internship programmes and urged the management of Vodafone Ghana to give such students the opportunity.
Credit: GNA