Daniel Oppong Kyeremeh, President of NUGS launching the Stipend Scheme
NUGS Rolls Out Stipend Scheme For PWDs
The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) under the auspice of its Scholarship Board introduces a policy that serves as a relief of financial issues to Tertiary University students with special needs.
The policy termed “The NUGS Stipends Scheme” is targeted at Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) across public universities in Ghana 🇬🇭.
Speaking to this reporter about the rationale, the initiator, Daniel Oppong Kyeremeh, President of NUGS said the project seeks to provide monetary support to help students who find it challenging to eat, cloth themselves or have books to study as well as other pertinent needs.
“The Union in the past months has received a number of students at its secretariat with issues of insufficient resources to maintain a healthy diet and to fulfill other basic needs of life”, the NUGS President disclosed.
Details:
Mr Kyeremeh said from the ongoing experiences it had become obvious that there are many students facing similar challenges in the public universities of Ghana.
The NUGS President said interested applicants can access the scheme by using https://nugs.org.gh.nugs-stipends.
He noted that the issue had become pressing and therefore it was essential for NUGS to come to the aid of such category of students.
“This project also seeks to support the government’s passion towards the provision of quality education to the people of Ghana”, Mr Kyeremeh emphasised.
Additional Information:
The NUGS President noted that the Sustainable Development Goal 4 talks about attaining quality education.
This, he stated includes students having peace of mind to focus on their education.
The Stipends Scheme Project therefore seeks to promote the attainment of the SDG goal 4, the President explained.
Other Activities:
Detailing some of the projects aside the Stipends Scheme, Mr Kyeremeh said his outfit is determined to explore all other avenues including farming to make life bearable for Ghanaian students across Ghana 🇬🇭 and beyond the shores of the country.
Currently, he said NUGS was involved in medium scale farming.
This, he noted would soon be turned into business so that while they feed students with the produce they could sell the rest to have income to cater for other needs of Ghanaian students.
“We are currently cultivating cassava, maize and some vegetables on some ten (10) acres of land and we also have 1000 pieces of catfishes as we plan to expand in no time to serve the purpose we have in mind”, Mr Kyeremeh stressed.
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