By Mercy Darko.
A Konkomba Education Endowment Fund has been launched to generate funds to support needy but brilliant students from Kokomba Communities. The fund will focus on investing in Education for Growth and Development and encourage Konkomba youth to pursue higher education.
Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia who outdoored the fund in Accra said education is key to development and the government will continue to invest in the sector to build the human resource capacity of the country’s youth. He appealed to indigenes of Konkomba and well meaning Ghanaians to contribute to the fund.
Spearheaded by the Konkomba Youth Association, KOYA, the Endowment Fund seeks to solicit funds from all abled Konkombas in Ghana for downward support to needy Konkombas.
Vice President, Dr. Bawumia said human capital is key in the transformation of economies and not natural resources, hence, the need to invest in human resources. He commended Konkombas for the initiative, which has the potential to give the Konkomba youth a brighter future.
”Government recognised the importance of education, it rolled out the Free SHS policy which has brought great relief to parents.”
He highlighted investments made in the education sector.
Vice Presidential Candidate of the NDC, Prof. Jane Jaana Opoku Agyeman, in a remark on behalf of former President John Dramani Mahama said the fund will not only be useful to Konkombas but the nation at large.
The Minister of Defence, Dominic Nitiwul, appealed to all to contribute their widow’s mite to build a solid fund towards improving education of Konkombas.
The Chairman of the Konkomba Education Endowment Fund Management Committee, Professor Justice Bawole, explaining the rationale behind this fund was optimistic that the launch will spur indigenes on, to contribute and support needy Konkomba youth take care of educational challenges.
