Telecel Ghana held its annual event to award scholarships to outstanding female engineering students from universities across the country
Ten final year female engineering students from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), University of Ghana (UG), University of Cape Coast (UCC), Ghana Communication Technology University (GCTU) and
the University of Mining and Technology (UMaT) were announced as recipients of this year’s program.
The Telecel Ghana Female Engineering Students Scholarship Program (FESSP), introduced in 2011, has supported and empowered
90 brilliant graduating female engineering students through mentorship, financial aid and technology tools.
Through FESSP and other initiatives to improve talent diversity, Telecel Ghana aims to address the gender imbalance in telecommunications engineering and inspire more young women to pursue technical careers in the field.
Each of the ten recipients received funding of five thousand Ghanaian cedis to cover tuition fees and final year fees, a new tablet with six months free data plan, access to mentors and internship opportunities, national service, the graduate program as well as full-time employment.
Speaking at the event, the CEO of Telecel Ghana, Ing. Patricia Obo-Nai, thanked parents and school principals for their immense support to the awardees, expressing their satisfaction with the performance of the FESSP graduates from previous years.
โYour mentorship and subsequent experience at Telecel will equip you with practical industry knowledge that is the real-world reality of what you are taught in school. Make the most of your mentors’ time, knowledge and experience now,โ he said.
The Director of Human Resources at Telecel Ghana, Hannah Ashiokai Akrong, said the main objective of the FESSP was to help scholarship recipients launch their careers through rotational programs in various departments of Telecel to learn first-hand how the telecommunications business works .
Danielle, one of the award recipients from the University of Cape Coast โ a new partner institution this year โ said she was optimistic the experience would give her the push she needed to turn her academic knowledge into practical, hands-on industry experience
BY KINGSLEY ASARE