Tullow awards scholarships to five Ashesi University students

Tullow Oil has extended a scholarship facility to five students of the school of engineering, Ashesi University.

This is the second time tullow is helping brilliant but needy under graduate students of the new engineering school of Ashesi University.

The gesture is part of the international oil company’s desire to boost capacity building in science, technology, engineering and Maths in the country.

Five students who qualified under the programme were each awarded funding of between seven and eight thousand dollars. This will cover tuition and book allowance for the entire four year duration of the course.

Since it began oil and gas operations in Ghana Tullow has been at the forefront of extending educational assistance by way of scholarships to various levels of tertiary education.

Social Performance and Public Affairs Manager of Tullow Ghana, Kwasi Amponsah Boateng, indicated Tullow’s commitment to expanding financial assistance to brilliant but needy undergraduates in public universities in the country.

“We are in alignment with the government of Ghana’s emphasis to boost capacity in science and technology, we have a growing relationship with Ashesi Univesity and consider it a centre of excellence”

 Mr. Amponsah Boateng said. Tullow said the Scholarship is being staggered from five students at the moment but hopes to reach out to ten students every academic year.

Director of Admissions and Financial Aid, Araba Botchwey, congratulated the scholarship recipients and  expressed the hope that they will justify the investment in their potential by giving back to society after completion of the programme.

She outlined some statistics of students who needed financial assistance before they could proceed to start the courses given them.

“Last year 2017, we received over 1200 applications to Ashesi, 900 of them were requesting financial aid, out of this number 500 were deemed to have genuine cases and yet we could not take care of them,” she lamented.

Madam Araba Botchwey was grateful to Tullow and other partners for helping Ashesi accomplish its aims and objectives.

Tullow says it is pursuing a broader support of science education to complement government’s efforts. Planned initiatives include refurbishing science labs in second cycle institutions across the country and granting scholarships to science and engineering students in tertiary levels

The short ceremony took place at the Ashesi University campus at Berekuso.

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