GREL SUPPORTS 14 BRILLIANT STUDENTS (PAGE 11)

THE Ghana Rubber Estate Limited (GREL) in Takoradi has awarded scholarships to 14 brilliant students from seven traditional areas in which the company operates, to enable them to pursue their education at the senior high school level.
A male and a female student were selected from each of the seven traditional areas within the Ahanta-West and Nzema areas in the Western Region, after they had gone through an interview.
This brings to 52 the number of students who have so far benefited from the company’s annual scholarship scheme.
The GREL, in conjunction with the Association of Chiefs on Whose Lands GREL Operates (ACLANGO), instituted a scholarship scheme in the 2005/06 academic year to support needy students to further their education.
Presenting the awards, the Managing Director of GREL, Mr Mac Genot, said the company granted the request of the chiefs to increase the number of beneficiaries from one to two from each school this academic year, in order to ensure gender equality.
He said the company would sustain the scholarship scheme, adding that the "Rubber price has been hit by the world financial crisis but where we are now, we can conveniently move on".
Mr Genot advised the beneficiaries to take their studies very seriously in order to maintain their awards.
The Chairman of ACLANGO, Awulae Agyefi Kwame, commended the company for increasing the number of the awards and also for supporting the people through the provision of social amenities.
Awulae Kwame pointed out that the company had not defaulted on the payment of the school fees of the beneficiaries since the scholarship scheme was instituted three years ago.
He appealed to the chiefs and people in the company’s operational areas not to adopt a confrontational approach when dealing with issues which can be settled amicably.