Standard Chartered Bank Ghana Limited (Stanchart) has awarded scholarships to seven (7) brilliant but needy students of the University of Cape Coast (UCC). 

The beneficiary students are in the second, third, and fourth years, as well as postgraduate levels respectively. 

The students - five (5) undergraduates and two (2) postgraduates - will benefit from two (2) endowment funds: the Standard Chartered Science Education Trust Fund and Standard Chartered Kenneth Dadzie Memorial Education Trust Fund.

Whilst the Science Education Fund covers both undergraduate and postgraduate students pursuing Science, the Kenneth Dadzie Fund focuses on postgraduate programmes; Economics and business courses. 

The beneficiary undergraduate students are Bismark Kyei, BSc Nursing; Lovia Boahemaa; Kumah Raphael Sombawire, DPharm; Isaac Danso Amoah, BSc Forensic Sciences and Justice Gyaaba Karikari, DPharm. 

The postgraduate students are Michael Adu-Gyamfi and Anator Clara Mawuena, MSc Economics. 

Addressing the students at a brief ceremony at the Bank’s Headquarters in Accra, the Acting Board Chairman of the Bank, Mr. Ebenezer Twum Asante, advised the students to focus on their studies and take advantage of the opportunity offered them to excel.

He also entreated them to be creative and innovative to help in the development of society and the nation in general. 

Mr. Asante told the students to be committed and hardworking with positive ethical values that would enable them achieve their potentials and dreams.

He urged the students to let integrity be their hallmark irrespective of the opposition they faced.

One of the beneficiaries, Justice Gyaaba Karikari, on behalf of his fellow beneficiaries, expressed appreciation to Stanchart for the scholarship. 

He gave an assurance that they would give of their best to justify the investment being made in them.

For her part, the Administrator at the Students’ Financial Support Office, Ms Grace Mensah, who accompanied the beneficiaries, thanked Standard Chartered Bank for the gesture.

Source: Documentation and Information Section-UCC