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The JEQ Foundation Award Laptops To Recipients
The Joseph & Elizabeth Quansah (JEQ) Foundation, a USA-based non-profit organisation, has urged brilliant but needy students across the country’s universities and colleges to take advantage of the Foundation’s scholarships to achieve academic excellence.
The Foundation, founded in 2019 in the USA to support Ghanaian students who excel academically but lack financial resources for tertiary education, provides tuition, residential scholarships, and laptops to selected students who have gained admission to undergraduate programs in public or private educational institutions.
In addition to the financial support, the foundation provides academic advising, mentorship,
and internship opportunities for scholarship recipients.
Presenting laptop computers to some recipients of the JEQ Foundation scholarships in Accra based on their continued academic excellence and community service, Co-Founder and Co-President of the Foundation, Prof. Joseph Emmanuel Quansah, said the JEQ Foundation seeks to reach as many deserving students in Ghana as possible to help them on their path to higher education and realise their potential.
He said it is therefore important that the scope of support is broadened to enable many young people to benefit from the initiative. Since its inception from 2019 to 2023, 43 students from various universities and colleges have received scholarship support worth about 85 thousand dollars. He appealed to corporate institutions to come on board, as this will help bridge the much-desired industry-academia gap.
“We provide mentorship and internships to enable our scholars to have the needed industrial experiences before they complete their educational programmes,” he said.
Touching on some challenges encountered over the years, Prof. Quansah mentioned the lack of awareness for many more students to access the opportunities the Foundation provides. This, he noted, is worrying, as he believes there are more brilliant but needy students across the country who must be assisted to further their education.
He said, “there are very good students who lack the necessary resources to achieve educational excellence, so it is imperative that Ghanaian corporate institutions come on board to achieve this goal of assisting these people.”
The Ghana representative of the JEQ Foundation, Michael Nartey, explaining the criteria for selection, said students who apply for the scholarship after investigations are interviewed together with their parents or guardians to ascertain whether they qualify. Mr. Nartey commended the founders of the initiative and urged students to study hard to enable them to benefit.
A student is expected to have results of at least 4As and 4Bs from WASSCE or be a Graduate with a GPA of 3.3 to qualify.
“I run a school, and I know how difficult it is for some parents to pay fees, a situation which has led to many potentials going waste. It is therefore important that the JEQ foundation is aided to do more,” he added.
For her part, an aluminus and recipient of the JEQ Foundation, Hilvagard Maisha Musah from Takoradi Technical University, urged students to visit the foundation’s website to apply. She expressed appreciation to the founders and donors of the JEQ Foundation, as she is now working as a procurement officer after an internship with one of the companies she was linked up with through the assistance of the Foundation.
Introducing: Alumni Leadership and Mentorship Team (ALMT)
ALMT is designed for JEQ Foundation alumni to assume leadership roles in the foundation. Through ALMT, select alumni have the opportunity for peer-to-peer mentorship programs with the current scholarship beneficiaries. The proud ALMT team will prepare the next generation of the JEQ Foundation’s beneficiaries in Ghana.
Seven (7) of our outstanding alumni have been selected to provide leadership and mentorship to existing scholarship recipients. They will also assist prospective scholarship applicants with information about the application process and post-award selection procedures.
The selected
The selected alumni are:
Hildagard M. Musah: She will be responsible for the Western part of Ghana JEQ Foundation’s scholarship recipients and scholarship applicants. She will be assisted by Mabel Wiafe.
Abdul Rahman Lansah: He will be responsible for the northern part of scholarship recipients and scholarship applicants.
Talita Anokye: She will be responsible for the Eastern and Brong regions of Ghana scholarship recipients and scholarship applicants. She will be assisted by Hayford Kankam Boadu.
Philip Nii Nortey: He will be responsible for the Ashanti region of Ghana JEQ Foundation’s scholarship recipients and scholarship applicants.
Thomas Benson: He will be responsible for the Central region of Ghana scholarship recipients and scholarship applicants.
Sarah Jalima: She will be responsible for the Greater region of Ghana scholarship recipients and scholarship applicants. She will be assisted by Rejoice B. Kojopeni.
Reagan Boulovi: Will be responsible for the Volta region of Ghana JEQ Foundation’s scholarship recipients and scholarship applicants.
Meet our 2023 scholarship recipients
The Joseph & Elizabeth Quansah (JEQ) Foundation has awarded new full tuition and residential scholarships to 15 Ghanaian college and university students for their entire undergraduate programs in Ghana.
The students were selected out of 700 applicants and went through a rigorous application and interview process.
The recipients are :
- Elvis Djanduh-2nd year, Diagnostic Imaging Technology, University of Cape Coast (UCC)
- Clifford Yeboah Duodu- 4th year, Medicine and Surgery, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
- Abraham Ayamigah-2nd year, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Mines and Technology (UMAT), Tarkwa
- Clement Barrfo-3rd year, Administration, University of Ghana
- Vera Ampomaa – 2nd year, Nursing, Modal College, Sogakope, Volta Region
- Leonard Nketsiah- 1st year, Technology In Marketing, Takoradi Technical University (TTU).
- Gabriel Asante – 2nd year, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University Of Energy And Natural Resources (UENR), Sunyani.
- Precious Baryeh –3rd year, Natural Resources Management, University Of Energy And Natural Resources (UENR), Sunyani.
- Sawudtau Hamidu- 1st year, Environment and Public Health, University of Environment and Sustainable Development (UESD). Somanya, Eastern Region
- Pascal Gmanyi Poanlab – 1st year, Sustainable Development, University of Environment and Sustainable Development (UESD). Somanya, Eastern Region.
- Gideon Nwati- 1st year, Biotechnology and Molecular Biology, University for Development Studies (UDS)
- Tananja Kennedy-3rd year, Medical Laboratory Science, University for Development Studies (UDS), Tamale
- Alfred Yelboore – 2nd year, Medical Laboratory Science, University for Development Studies (UDS)
- James Akulaa – 3rd year, Statistics, CK -Tedam University of Technology and Applied Sciences 15.
- Sandra Anaba- 3rd year, Statistics, CK -Tedam University of Technology and Applied Sciences
JEQ Foundation awards 15 students full tuition and residential scholarships
Accra, Dec. 21, GNA-The Joseph & Elizabeth Quansah (JEQ) Foundation has awarded 15 New Full Tuition and Residential Scholarships to Ghanaian College and University Students for their entire undergraduate programmes in Ghana.
The students were selected out of 700 applicants and went through a rigorous application and interview process.
NGO steps up efforts to bridge industry-academia gap
Some selected brilliant but needy College and University Scholarship beneficiaries of the Joseph & Elizabeth Quansah (JEQ) Foundation, a USA-based non-profit organization, have been presented with brand new laptops.
This took place at the official 2023 JEQ Foundation Laptop Presentation Ceremony held in Accra on Monday (28th August, 2023).
2023 Laptop Presentation
Accra, Aug. 31, GNA - A USA-based nonprofit organization, the Joseph & Elizabeth Quansah (JEQ) Foundation, has presented new laptops to selected Foundation's Ghanaian college/university scholarship recipients.
Speaking at the ceremony, the Co-Founder/Co-President of the Foundation Prof. Joseph Emmanuel Quansah, said the Foundation was set up with the wife to support especially excellent but needy students in Ghana to ensure that they have at least a basic first degree.
"Our hope and ultimate goal is to support as many Ghanaian students as possible in order to provide them the opportunity of having a good first degree. This will require resources and we would love to have corporate bodies to partner with the JEQ Foundation to provide academic and educational opportunities for students, especially Ghanaian students who are excellent and smart," he said.
The presentation was made by representatives of the Foundation in Ghana, with the attendance of some of the current and past recipients of the Foundation's scholarships.