Officials From Sewerage Systems Ghana Limited And Some Elders Of Jamestown In A Group Photograph With the Dummy Cheque for the Scholarship Package
Ten students from Jamestown in Accra have benefited from a scholarship facility provided them by Sewerage Systems Ghana Limited (SSGL) to enable them to pursue courses in various universities in the country.
The company is a subsidiary of the Jospong Group and the gesture is part of its corporate social responsibility.
The suburb of Accra where the students hail from is a fishing community where the company put up its biggest facility, fondly called Lavender Hill and Mudor Faecal Treatment Plant, which treats 80 per cent of the liquid waste generated in Accra.
The announcement for the package was made by Haidar Said, Managing Director of SSGL, last Friday during their annual thanksgiving programme.
The event took place at Mckeown Assembly of the Church of Pentecost at Korle Gonno during which a three-hour session of praises to God was held.
The programme was themed, ‘Give Thanks To God For He Is Good.’
The managing director expressed gratitude to the people of Jamestown for their various contributions towards the project since it was started.
“While we are thanking God for his blessings, we also want to show appreciation to the people of James Town for their assistance to the SSGL,” he said.
Mr. Said noted that apart from the payment of the tuition fees of the students, the company had done a lot for the community since it started operating in the area.
Briefing the media about some of the things the company had done, the Business Development and Communications Manager of SSGL, Ms. Lola Asiseh Ashitey, said the Company had given employment to hundreds of youth from James Town.
“We have professionals like engineers, accountants and even the unskilled people getting jobs at SSGL,” she disclosed.
Ms. Ashitey said the company intended to further engage more of the youth in various projects that would soon be rolled out.
That, she said, was a way to assist the youth to improve their well-being, adding, “Once they are engaged, they will have a means of income.”