Scholarship Applications
We are delighted to inform Mankessim students that there are 5 scholarships available for award to applicants on an extremely competitive basis and whose parents are in the low income group.
Please send your application to [email protected] or drop off your application by October 15 2022 to:
Methodist Pastor
St. Paul Catholic Pastor
Presbyterian Pastor.
Pentecost Pastor
Chief Imam Muslim Community.
Kindly note that only short listed candidates will be contacted for interviews with our scholarship committee,
Thank you for your interest.
We are delighted to inform Mankessim students that there are 5 scholarships available for award to applicants on an extremely competitive basis and whose parents are in the low income group.
Please send your application to [email protected] or drop off your application by October 15 2022 to:
Methodist Pastor
St. Paul Catholic Pastor
Presbyterian Pastor.
Pentecost Pastor
Chief Imam Muslim Community.
Kindly note that only short listed candidates will be contacted for interviews with our scholarship committee,
Thank you for your interest.
DONORS CHOICE
We are extremely pleased that some donors, individuals, and organizations have named their scholarship donations after the following people for being good to them in some ways.
Guven Arzu Polat Scholarship ----------------- Science
Ghanaian News Scholarship -------------------- Journalism
Rie Hammer Scholarship -------------------------- Nursing
Ivy Jeffers Scholarship ------------------------------Education
John & Mari Jo de Waal Scholarship----------- Music
Downtown Drugmart Calgary Scholarship ---- Pharmacy
Students must be pursuing their studies at Ghana Universities and colleges. The selection of candidates is extremely competitive and aspiring candidates will have to demonstrate excellent academic credentials, leadership skills, and extracurricular activities
among the many other selection criteria.
A list of shortlisted candidates will be sent to the respective sponsors who will make the final selection
Please send in your application to [email protected]
The scholarship is only open to students who are Ghanaians residing in Ghana and have completed their schooling at Ghana Secondary Schools and their parents are in the low-income group.
Deadline to receive applications is October 15, 2022
We are extremely pleased that some donors, individuals, and organizations have named their scholarship donations after the following people for being good to them in some ways.
Guven Arzu Polat Scholarship ----------------- Science
Ghanaian News Scholarship -------------------- Journalism
Rie Hammer Scholarship -------------------------- Nursing
Ivy Jeffers Scholarship ------------------------------Education
John & Mari Jo de Waal Scholarship----------- Music
Downtown Drugmart Calgary Scholarship ---- Pharmacy
Students must be pursuing their studies at Ghana Universities and colleges. The selection of candidates is extremely competitive and aspiring candidates will have to demonstrate excellent academic credentials, leadership skills, and extracurricular activities
among the many other selection criteria.
A list of shortlisted candidates will be sent to the respective sponsors who will make the final selection
Please send in your application to [email protected]
The scholarship is only open to students who are Ghanaians residing in Ghana and have completed their schooling at Ghana Secondary Schools and their parents are in the low-income group.
Deadline to receive applications is October 15, 2022
Scholarship Pledge Letter - Registered Canadian Charity # 84275 6264 RR0001
To give the children, our future leaders, the tools and the knowledge that they may need for a better and healthy future.
For all of us conversant with the Ghana educational scenario, it is apparent that the education sector has benefited tremendously from Government subventions to public education institutions. The country still enjoys one of the highest secondary school enrolment rates in Africa. The Government policy of “Universal Primary and Secondary Education” has enabled many students complete Secondary schools.
It is at the “post secondary level” where the Government, whilst subsidizing significantly the costs also requires students to pay for “tuition, books and living expenses”. Students can get government loans of about a third of the cost. With these resulting higher fees at “ post secondary Institutions” many parents are not been able to send their children to colleges and universities because of their poor financial situations.
As a background, the total cost of education are much higher before government education subsidies, but students are only required to pay CAD $300 per year at these Universities and Colleges. Students get $100 loan and the balance of $200 is the amount requested from our esteemed donors.
Ghana Universities rank amongst some of the best in Africa and graduates have been able to get well respectable jobs within and outside the country. Graduates have also been accepted for post graduate studies in some of the “most reputable universities” in the UK, North America, Australia and other countries.
The Scholarship program identifies and sponsors students from the Mankessim community in Ghana to attend “post-secondary Institutions“. We have developed competitive selection criteria and already awarded a total of 11 scholarships to students in “2009 and 2010” at different colleges and Universities. AKCLF follows up constantly progress of the students through regular contacts with the Local leaders and Institutions Staff, through it‘s “Liaison Office“ which also monitors academic progress of the students.
As at the present, AKCLF scholarship as well as capital, recurrent and staffing costs are fully sustained through the sponsor.
Like any not-for-profit organisation, AKCLF can only succeed in its mission, if there is collective commitment and if it receives financial assistance from others who have Ghana at heart and who also believe in AKCLF mission. Financing of education costs in Ghana is extremely inexpensive and from your support of CAD 800 ( yearly CAD 300 less CAD 100 student‘s Government loan); you will enable one deserving student to complete four years* of University/college education. Or you can finance students already on roll whose disbursement need to be done this year end.
For any financial support received, AKCLF will individually recognise publicly all donors through mass media or at public functions so that Ghanaians in particular and others in general see your gesture as examples to emulate. We would also send to the donors the names of the student and their family profile to substantiate that the support have been received by very needy students.
Donors would be regularly apprised on the individual progress reports of the students they are supporting.
As a policy of complete transparency, we will also send at the end of each year, copies of our audited accounts from a reputable auditing firm in Calgary, to the sponsors.
I look forward to receiving your pledges.
* University programmes at Ghana Institutions of Higher Learning are normally four years, post graduate programmes two years, medicine/dentistry and other medicine faculty programmes five years. Colleges are three years..
Current Situation
In 2009 the Foundation awarded five students scholarships and again in 2010 six more students were added to the awards.
To give the children, our future leaders, the tools and the knowledge that they may need for a better and healthy future.
For all of us conversant with the Ghana educational scenario, it is apparent that the education sector has benefited tremendously from Government subventions to public education institutions. The country still enjoys one of the highest secondary school enrolment rates in Africa. The Government policy of “Universal Primary and Secondary Education” has enabled many students complete Secondary schools.
It is at the “post secondary level” where the Government, whilst subsidizing significantly the costs also requires students to pay for “tuition, books and living expenses”. Students can get government loans of about a third of the cost. With these resulting higher fees at “ post secondary Institutions” many parents are not been able to send their children to colleges and universities because of their poor financial situations.
As a background, the total cost of education are much higher before government education subsidies, but students are only required to pay CAD $300 per year at these Universities and Colleges. Students get $100 loan and the balance of $200 is the amount requested from our esteemed donors.
Ghana Universities rank amongst some of the best in Africa and graduates have been able to get well respectable jobs within and outside the country. Graduates have also been accepted for post graduate studies in some of the “most reputable universities” in the UK, North America, Australia and other countries.
The Scholarship program identifies and sponsors students from the Mankessim community in Ghana to attend “post-secondary Institutions“. We have developed competitive selection criteria and already awarded a total of 11 scholarships to students in “2009 and 2010” at different colleges and Universities. AKCLF follows up constantly progress of the students through regular contacts with the Local leaders and Institutions Staff, through it‘s “Liaison Office“ which also monitors academic progress of the students.
As at the present, AKCLF scholarship as well as capital, recurrent and staffing costs are fully sustained through the sponsor.
Like any not-for-profit organisation, AKCLF can only succeed in its mission, if there is collective commitment and if it receives financial assistance from others who have Ghana at heart and who also believe in AKCLF mission. Financing of education costs in Ghana is extremely inexpensive and from your support of CAD 800 ( yearly CAD 300 less CAD 100 student‘s Government loan); you will enable one deserving student to complete four years* of University/college education. Or you can finance students already on roll whose disbursement need to be done this year end.
For any financial support received, AKCLF will individually recognise publicly all donors through mass media or at public functions so that Ghanaians in particular and others in general see your gesture as examples to emulate. We would also send to the donors the names of the student and their family profile to substantiate that the support have been received by very needy students.
Donors would be regularly apprised on the individual progress reports of the students they are supporting.
As a policy of complete transparency, we will also send at the end of each year, copies of our audited accounts from a reputable auditing firm in Calgary, to the sponsors.
I look forward to receiving your pledges.
* University programmes at Ghana Institutions of Higher Learning are normally four years, post graduate programmes two years, medicine/dentistry and other medicine faculty programmes five years. Colleges are three years..
Current Situation
In 2009 the Foundation awarded five students scholarships and again in 2010 six more students were added to the awards.
Status of the 11 Students on Scholarships - Awards given out and Financial Commitment pledged
YEAR OF SUPPORT AMOUNT - CAD SPONSOR/DONOR
2009 1000 Amount Disbursed by AKCLF
2010 2000 Amount Disbursed by AKCLF
2011 1600 Amount Disbursed by AKCLF
2012 1600 Amount Disbursed by AKCLF
Student names, field of discipline, duration, and institution studying
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* wrote level one 2010 and is looking for practicum in a ship for 1 year. Thereafter will seek for alternative source of funding
** Completed his program in 2009 and is now teaching.
*** Agnes ( April 2012) enrolled as Chartered Accounting Student at , University of Professional Studies Accra
Award Summary for the above students (Academic year starts from September to following year June)
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1. Samuel O
2. Ayuba E Q 3 David K. F. 4. Kennedy L. 5. Edward K 6. Copson F 7. Belinda A. 8. Ebenezer K 9. Sylvester A 10. Benjamin A 11. Agnes Y. B |
4 years program. Funded for 4 yrs. Graduates in 2013
4 years program. Funded for 3 yrs. Awarded in 2nd yr. Graduated 2012 4 years program. Funded for 2 yrs. Awarded financial assistance in 3rd yr. Graduated 2012 4 years program. Funded for 2 yrs. Awarded financial assistance in 3rd yr. Graduated 2012 4 years program. Funded for 2 yrs. Graduated in 2010 4 years co-op program. Funded for 2 yrs. Graduated 2010. Wrote level one exam in 2010 and is looking for practicum in a ship for 1 year. Thereafter in 2012 or 2013 will seek for one more year of funding to graduate. 3 years program. Funded for 3 yrs. Graduated 2012 3 years program. Funded for 3 yrs. Graduated 2012 3 years program. Funded for 3 yrs. Graduated 2012 3 years program. Funded for 1 yr. Graduated 2009 4 years program. Funded for 4 yrs. Graduates in 2014 |
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