John Dumelo Gives Scholarship To University Students

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John Dumelo presenting the cheque to Dr. James K. Adomako, Dean of Student Affairs

Award-winning Ghanaian actor John Dumelo has presented an amount of GH¢3000 to the University of Ghana to sponsor two students who are brilliant but lack the financial backing to complete their course at the university.

The actor, on behalf of his John Dumelo Foundation (JDF), presented the amount to the Students Financial Aid Office of the University.

Speaking briefly before the presentation, John said this year, his foundation would embark on various projects, one of which was to give scholarship and support to brilliant but needy students in tertiary institutions.

He said his foundation was starting The John Dumelo Foundation Scholarship for Tertiary Education which would see him sponsor students for their entire duration of their stay in the university.

“We are paying for two university students; one medical student and one theatre arts student. We are sponsoring both to undergo the whole university education,” he said.

Every year, the JDF would add more students to the scholarship scheme with the “hope to officially sponsor about close to 50 students in the next five years”, he added.

John mentioned that the scholarship was not reserved for only University of Ghana students as there were plans to have the scholarship launched in his alma mater, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST); University of Cape Coast (UCC); University of Development Studies (UDS) and private universities.

In accepting the cheque for the first instalment, the Dean of Student Affairs, Dr. James K. Adomako, thanked the actor for his kind gesture.

According to him, many students came to the school with complaints due to their inability to pay their fees. Some are even forced to defer their courses.

On her part, Mrs. Christine Baning, Head of Student Financial Aid Office, also thanked the actor and promised that her office would administer the scholarship on the new admitted students....