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Kennedy Agyapong To Pick Global Scholarship Award

kencitymediagh
Jun 7, 2017
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Businessman and Member of Parliament for Assin Central in the Central Region, Hon Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has been nominated for a global dignity award, to be presented to him in New York on August 4, 2017 at the United Nations (UN) headquarters.

The award will be in the form of a scholarship package for 35 students who want to study engineering and medicine.

This followed the recognition of his humanitarian works in Ghana, Africa and other places in the world by We Care for Humanity (WCH).

Kennedy Agyapong and Her Highness Princess Raden Dato’Seri Maria Amor Torres

Founded in 2011 by Her Highness Princess Raden Dato’Seri Maria Amor Torres, a Filipino social activist based in Los Angeles, We Care for Humanity is a non-profit organization, based in California.

WCH is an internationally recognized organization dealing mainly with current global issues and concerns such as Human Rights, World Peace, Education, Health and Wellness, Eradication of Poverty, Green Environment and Empowerment.

Her Excellency Maria Amor Torres together with the former President of Ecuador, former Prime Minister of Nepal and other representatives of WCH in West Africa made the announcement in Accra on Tuesday, when they paid a visit to the MP in his office at Oman FM.

Among the reasons Mr. Agyapong is to be given the award includes being among one of the first individual Africans to donate towards global humanitarian concerns.

Hon Agyapong expressed gratitude to the team for recognizing his contribution to humanity.

“I want to thank the team that has come here today to announce the award that will be given to me on August 4,” he said.

“All I want to say is a big thank you for recognizing my work…I hope we can do our best to make sure we go with good impression.”

Ken Agyapong later told Oman FM that he would spread the scholarship package to cover brilliant but needy students from each of the ten regions of Ghana.

“I will select three people from each region of Ghana to benefit from the scholarship. Let me say that I will not give it to people from my constituency only,” he stated.

He urged other philanthropist not to give up in helping humanity since they would be re one day their work will be recognized one day.