A Director of Hulede Foundation, a US-based Ghanaian Non-Profit Organisation, has conferred with over 102 beneficiaries of its Hulede Scholarship project at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi.
The Hulede Foundation was set up last January by the Hulede Family in honour of their father, Mr. Hulede, the first Manager of the KNUST Printing Press.
Mr. Patrick Hulede, addressing the student awardees of the project on behalf of the President of the Foundation, explained at the forum that the project was established with the aim of creating opportunities for the less privileged in society.
He said the Hulede Scholarship was the Foundation’s flagship programme under which brilliant and genuinely needy students (undergraduates) were assisted financially to pursuing various programmes of study.
He said the programme was not just interested in assisting students financially, but also to provide mentorship and career developments for those who would in turn help to sustain the culture of giving back their first fruits of labour to society, and offer opportunities in communities for the benefit of others.
Mr. Hulede encouraged the beneficiaries to give off their best wherever they found themselves.
Professor Marian Asantewaa Nkansah, Deputy Director of Student Affairs (in charge of Housing and Welfare), expressed appreciation for Hulede Foundation’s intervention, which she described as an addition and timely.
She said the Students Affairs Directorate sought to create the right and healthy environment to respond to the basic needs of students, including financial and food supplies from its Food Bank project.
Prof. Asantewaa Nkansah explained that over 85,000 students had benefited from its projects over the years.
The Deputy Director of DOSA advised the students to study hard and give back to society as the only gratitude they could show for the generosity of their benefactors.
Dr. James Osei Mensah, Chairman of the Off-campus Senior Tutors of DOSA at KNUST, advised the student awardees against abusing or misusing the opportunity afforded them in the scholarship.
He noted that the beneficiaries were chosen by divine design to break the poverty cycle in their families, and therefore an opportunity they could not miss.
Dr. Osei Mensah said they would not only be disappointing themselves, but also doing a great disservice to society if they abused the opportunity offered by the Hulede Foundation.
He urged them to touch a lot more lives outside their families by staying focused and not be distracted by things that compete for their time.
The beneficiaries confessed that the Hulede Scholarship had changed their lives.
