GH¢ 80,000 for needy students
A total of GH¢ 80,000 was recently disbursed to 107 needy but brilliant students in the Accra Archdiocese to support their education.
The disbursement was done at the 14th Awards of Bursary and Fundraising of Archbishop Andoh Education Endowment Fund at the Queen of Peace Catholic Church, Madina.
In a keynote address, Mr. Paul Krampa, a Public Relations Consultant, said education was vital for the socio-economic development of every nation and applauded the Catholic Church in Ghana for complimenting Government’s efforts to provide accessible quality education to children.
He commended the Accra Archdiocese for establishing the Fund to support deprived children to pursue higher education and called on all Catholics to contribute to the fund.
Mr. Krampa suggested the establishment of Parish Committees to identify and assist needy children in their Parishes.
He advised beneficiaries of the Fund to learn hard, be disciplined and live up to expectation, admonishing them against negative influence by their peers.
The Guest Speaker entreated parents not to shirk their responsibilities but assist the Church to provide quality education for their children by providing their basic needs.
While calling on the Archdiocese to monitor the educational progress of the beneficiaries to ensure that they lived up to expectation, Mr. Krampa urged the Local Managers of Catholic Schools to monitor teaching and learning in their various schools and keep teachers on track.
Giving a brief background of the Fund, Very Rev. Fr. Francis Adoboli, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, said it was started by late Archbishop Dominic Andoh to assist and cater for the educational needs of needy and deserving Catholic students in the form of scholarships, bursaries and grants.
He said the Fund initially catered for students in Basic and Secondary levels of education only but was later expanded to include those in Tertiary Institutions to enable them pursue higher education.
The Vicar General said to make the desired impact, there was the need for every Parish in the Archdiocese to set up a Selection and Awards Committee made up of the Parish Priest, the Head Teacher, Chairman of the Parish Pastoral Council, Chairperson of the Laity Council, a Parishioner and Trustee who shall be an ex-officio.
He appealed to more Catholics to contribute to the Fund to help sustain it and entreated beneficiaries who were now in the working class to contribute meaningfully to enable the younger ones to benefit from it.
Fr. Adoboli thanked Benefactors of the Fund for their generous contributions and urged the youth to come on board to contribute their widows mite since most of the Benefactors were ageing.
Mrs. Veronica Acheampong, Proprietress of Child of the Light School, who chaired the event, noted that financial constraint was a major problem in education and the cause of streetism and other societal ills.
She said that an estimated 800,000 children left school because of lack of funds and called on all to help break the poverty chain in the country.
She urged the beneficiaries to study hard and make the Church and the benefactors proud.
The ceremony was attended by Friends of the Archbishop Andoh Education Endowment Fund, Deans of the Six Deaneries in the Archdiocese, many Priests, and the Regional Manager of the Catholic Education Unit, Mrs. Margaret Nsiah-Asamoah.
The Madina Choir provided the audience with a medley of songs.
*The beneficiaries with the Priests.
By Angela Ofosu Boateng and Mary Antwiwaa Obeng
The disbursement was done at the 14th Awards of Bursary and Fundraising of Archbishop Andoh Education Endowment Fund at the Queen of Peace Catholic Church, Madina.
In a keynote address, Mr. Paul Krampa, a Public Relations Consultant, said education was vital for the socio-economic development of every nation and applauded the Catholic Church in Ghana for complimenting Government’s efforts to provide accessible quality education to children.
He commended the Accra Archdiocese for establishing the Fund to support deprived children to pursue higher education and called on all Catholics to contribute to the fund.
Mr. Krampa suggested the establishment of Parish Committees to identify and assist needy children in their Parishes.
He advised beneficiaries of the Fund to learn hard, be disciplined and live up to expectation, admonishing them against negative influence by their peers.
The Guest Speaker entreated parents not to shirk their responsibilities but assist the Church to provide quality education for their children by providing their basic needs.
While calling on the Archdiocese to monitor the educational progress of the beneficiaries to ensure that they lived up to expectation, Mr. Krampa urged the Local Managers of Catholic Schools to monitor teaching and learning in their various schools and keep teachers on track.
Giving a brief background of the Fund, Very Rev. Fr. Francis Adoboli, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, said it was started by late Archbishop Dominic Andoh to assist and cater for the educational needs of needy and deserving Catholic students in the form of scholarships, bursaries and grants.
He said the Fund initially catered for students in Basic and Secondary levels of education only but was later expanded to include those in Tertiary Institutions to enable them pursue higher education.
The Vicar General said to make the desired impact, there was the need for every Parish in the Archdiocese to set up a Selection and Awards Committee made up of the Parish Priest, the Head Teacher, Chairman of the Parish Pastoral Council, Chairperson of the Laity Council, a Parishioner and Trustee who shall be an ex-officio.
He appealed to more Catholics to contribute to the Fund to help sustain it and entreated beneficiaries who were now in the working class to contribute meaningfully to enable the younger ones to benefit from it.
Fr. Adoboli thanked Benefactors of the Fund for their generous contributions and urged the youth to come on board to contribute their widows mite since most of the Benefactors were ageing.
Mrs. Veronica Acheampong, Proprietress of Child of the Light School, who chaired the event, noted that financial constraint was a major problem in education and the cause of streetism and other societal ills.
She said that an estimated 800,000 children left school because of lack of funds and called on all to help break the poverty chain in the country.
She urged the beneficiaries to study hard and make the Church and the benefactors proud.
The ceremony was attended by Friends of the Archbishop Andoh Education Endowment Fund, Deans of the Six Deaneries in the Archdiocese, many Priests, and the Regional Manager of the Catholic Education Unit, Mrs. Margaret Nsiah-Asamoah.
The Madina Choir provided the audience with a medley of songs.
*The beneficiaries with the Priests.
By Angela Ofosu Boateng and Mary Antwiwaa Obeng