Vodafone Ghana, the telecom operator, on Tuesday provided sponsorship to five female students under its Female Engineering Students Sponsorship Programme.
The students are from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and the Ghana Telecom University College.
Mrs Stella Agyenim-Boateng, Director of Human Resource at Vodafone Ghana, commended the students for their selection which was based on merit.
She explained that the Female Engineering Students Sponsorship Programme is Vodafone’s initiative to give opportunity to female students reading engineering at the tertiary level, and that the package for the sponsorship programme include the payment of academic user fee, money to buy books, free airtime, internship, National Service and full employment if possible.
Mrs Agyenim-Boateng said, through its Discover Programme, the selected students could get the opportunity to further developed their potentials at Vodafone, even after their National Service programme, and also acquire working experience abroad through its Columbus programme.
She urged the selected students to exhibit good attitude in order to be able to fully develop their talents.
Mr Harris Broumidis, Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Ghana, said diversity and inclusion is key in the operations of the company, hence the female sponsorship programme.
He urged the students to be eager to learn and hungry for success to enable them fulfill their dreams.
Mr Kwame Agyekum of the College of Electrical Engineering at KNUST, expressed the hope that the programme would be continued, to enable other brilliant female engineering students to benefit.
He said the College of Electrical Engineering at KNUST had other students who would be doing their internship programmes, and urged management of Vodafone Ghana to give such students the opportunity.
