Winneba (C/R), Aug 5, GNA- The Winneba Methodist Diocesan Synod Secretary, Very Rev Charles Sam, has stressed that education should transform humans with good character to make society sound and worth living in.
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Ghanaians should therefore discard the notion that education was only aimed at acquiring knowledge to secure a white collar job.
Very Rev Sam was presenting scholarship awarded by the Connexional Methodist Guild to three needy but brilliant students in tertiary institutions at a ceremony at St Paul Methodist Church at Winneba in the Effutu Municipality of the Central Region.
The awardees, who received a cheque for three thousand Ghana cedis each, are Mr Emmanuel Eshun, a Level 200 Student persuing B- Tech in Finance and Accounting at the Cape Coast Technical University, Miss Josephine Owusu Ankomah, a Bachelor of Arts in Population and Health, Level 100 Student at the University of Cape Coast and Mr Shadrack Yeboah also a UCC Level 100 Student pursuing Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science.
Mr Yeboah is an orphan from the Raffiki Orphanage at Gyahadze near Winneba.
Very Rev Sam charged the awardees to take the scholarship as a challenge to study hard to prove to the Methodist Guild that the financial assistance given them did not go down the drain.
He commended the Connexional Guild for taking that initiative to help produce more human resources for the country to reduce the rate of illiteracy in Ghana.
The Connexional Vice Chairman of the Methodist Guild, Mr Emmanuel Panyin Eshun,said since its inception a decade ago, the scholarship scheme had sponsored 44 brilliant but needy students from the Gyahadze Home.
Besides that, the Organisation had spent more than GHC150,000 on the beneficiaries, excluding those who received theirs at Winneba.
He noted that the Guild underscored the importance of education and decided to invest in it since it was the best legacy to bequeath any individual.
Mr Eshun said plans were underway to increase the tally when fiscal resources went up.
Mr Yeboah thanked the Connexional Guild on behalf of the recipients for offering them financial assistance to enable them further their education and assured them that they would not disappoint the organisation but excel to encourage others to follow their footprints.
GNA
