Ghana’s Bulk Oil Storage Transportation company has donated a cash amount of One Hundred Thousand Ghana Cedis (GHs 100,000.00) to the University of Ghana (UG) towards implementation of the Vice Chancellor’s One Student, One Laptop initiative to leverage on technology in the delivering of teaching and learning activities.
The donation comes barely a month after the Minister for Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum praised BOST for its impactful CSR Program when the company signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Education Ministry to support the education of some fifty brilliant but needy students with a full scholarship to further their studies at the Tarkwa University of Mines and Technology , sums up BOST commitments in supporting the education of the next future leaders through its Corporate Social Responsibility activities.
The brief ceremony held at the Vice Chancellor’s crescent at the University of Ghana and was attended by the Vice and pro-vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana and members of the University’s Senior Management Team.
The Managing Director of BOST, Mr. Edwin Alfred Provençal led the BOST Team to make the donation.
The vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Prof. Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, in her opening remarks said, the initiative to disburse Laptops to students at the University was birthed at the outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic which greatly impacted negatively on conventional teaching and learning in Universities around the world and the University of Ghana in particular.
She said the University realised the acute challenges faced by needy students in remotely accessing lectures and therefore decided to provide laptops to those needy students to aid their studies.
She said the program was in two folds i.e addressing the needs of needy students who couldn’t afford and doesn’t have laptops and thus impeding their studies.
She said the University was also soliciting private entity to support students who could afford their own laptops at discounted prices.
The Vice Chancellor emphasised that these would enable the university to deliver critical key skill set and lectures to students remotely.
She thanked the Managing Director for distinguishing himself as a Director of a state entity such as BOST. She emphasized that poor students around the country are looking up to entities like BOST to come to their aid.
The Managing Director in his address, said BOST Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy on education recognises the invaluable role played by good corporate entities in contributing to national development particularrly in the arears of education.
Mr. Provençal noted that BOST was committing capital to improving education in the country and at the same time delivering on its core mandate of providing fuel and energy security for the country.
The Managing Director thanked the University for having produced many distinguished and competent products such as himself and the BOST team that has contributed immensely to the great many gains by BOST in recent times.
