Excellence Scholarship Fund, set up exclusively to better the lot of female students of Ada Senior High School, has honoured its promise in grand style.
Mavis Naa Adoley Addo, who emerged the best female student of Ada Senior High School in the 2022 West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), is the proud winner of the 2022-2023 award, and she was presented with a cheque for Gh¢4,000 at a simple but colourful ceremony organised at the SSNIT Guest House last Saturday (May 27, 2023).
Presentation
Presenting the award, Dr Gabriel Ofoe Canacoo, the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the scheme, explained that the package covered Miss Addo’s Academic User Fee and Residential Fee at the University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, where she had been offered admission to study Business Administration.
Dr Canacoo added that in subsequent years at the university, the Fund would support Miss Addo financially with some graduated sum of money provided she obtained a B Average Grading or higher at the end of every year in the course she was pursuing.
He advised the award winner not to get carried away by university life but to get glued to her studies “always remembering that you are there to carve a niche for yourself, your family and your nation”.
Dr Canacoo disclosed that previous winners of the award were all doing well in their various fields of study, adding that “the very first recipients of the Tertiary Support Award were on course to receive First Class Honours or 2nd Class Upper, at worse, when they graduate at the University of Ghana this year’’.
Acceptance
In her acceptance speech, Miss Addo paid glowing tribute to the teachers of Ada Senior High School for not only preparing her adequately for the 2022 WASSCE, but also imparting knowledge to her from the very moment she stepped foot in the school until her departure just last year.
“I am totally flabbergasted; I am amazed at how things have quickly changed in my life after three short years at Ada Senior High School.
Miss Addo also expressed her deep gratitude to the Founder of the Award, Ms Eleanor Louise Webb, a Canadian volunteer who taught at the school between 1968 and 1970.
On behalf of the school, Mathew Honu, the Assistant Headmaster (Academic) of Ada Senior High, congratulated Miss Addo on excelling in the WASSCE but reminded her that the task ahead was even more arduous and added that “with determination and commitment, nothing will thwart your efforts”.
Source: myghanadaily
