Nkosuohene of Kwahu Nkwatia, Nana Owiredu Wadie (I) paid a working visit to the Grambling State University in Louisiana, LA. USA to strike academic partnership deal between the University and his none for profit charity organization, Kabaka Foundation ,for brilliant but needy Ghanaian students to further their education abroad.
Nana Owiredu Wadie (I)interacted and had a tour around the campus with Dr. Aaron Livingston, Professor in Sports Administration, and Dr. Obadiah J.K. Simmons Jr., Head/Director of the Department of Kinesiology, Sport & Leisure Studies at the Grambling State University in Louisiana, L.A.
Grambling State University is an HBCU (Historically Black Colleges & Universities) with a strong history and stellar performance in sports sciences.
Nana Owiredu Wadie I is the Board Chairman for St Peter Senior High School (PERSCO), Kwahu Nkwatia, and also the Chairman of Kabaka Foundation, a charity organization that has been philanthropically supporting education across Ghana.
The strategic academic partnership will see some brilliant and needy Ghanaian students particularly Senior High School graduates from Kwahu Nkwatia, PERSCO, gain scholarship at the University to further their education.
These educational opportunities will fall under the Kabaka Education pillar which focuses on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) – 4, which tends to ensure “Quality Education for All ” .
The gesture is also in fulfilment of SDG -1 which is “Eradicating extreme poverty for all people everywhere by 2030”.
Nana Owiredu Wadie’s Kabaka Foundation has been instrumental in providing various poverty eradication and economic empowerment interventions to the poor and vulnerable in society.
A recent beneficiary of these interventions is Kofi-Boye Philip Tetteh, a 19 year old former Science student who completed St.Peters SHS in 2022 and obtained grade 7As and B3 in English Language in WASSCE but ended up selling tomatoes and onions on the streets of Koforidua due to lack of financial support.
However through Kabaka Foundation,Kofi-Boye Philip Tetteh,an orphan secured admission at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)to pursue Doctor of Pharmacy program ,with fees and other expenses fully paid by the foundation.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
