The Managing Director (MD) of Enepa Ventures Limited and Agricultural Manufacturing Group Company (AMG), Mr. Ernest Akwasi Appiah has promised to grant scholarships to twenty (20) deserving students from the School of Public Health and Faculty of Agriculture students, in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
He made this statement when presenting a cheque of One Million Ghana Cedis (GHS1,000,000) as donation to the School of Public Health (SPH) and the Department of Horticulture of the Faculty of Agriculture of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) on 19th October 2021.
Mr. Appiah explained that, the gesture is in line with his passion that financial challenge should not be limiting factor in maintaining children in schools. As a result, he stated that he will continue to help students in similar situations.
On behalf of the University, the Pro-Vice Chancellor, Professor Ellis Owusu-Dabo who took the check and thanked Mr. Appiah for his considerate gift, further explained that, there are stringent criteria in place for identifying outstanding but underprivileged students, assuring the delegation that scholarships will be given to worthy beneficiaries.
Prof. Christian Agyare, Provost of the College of Health Sciences and Prof. Enoch Osekre, Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, and the Provost of the College of Agriculture also thanked Mr. Appiah and AMG for the donation.
Dr. Eli Gaveh, an Agronomist and Business Strategist, who facilitated the funding suggested that the dedication of Mr. Appiah to build AMG and Enepa into strong indigenous brands should be hailed to spur entrepreneurial drive among university graduates and other youth.
AMG is the country’s largest indigenous manufacturer and distributor of high-efficiency and high-performance crop fertilizers, having been formed in 2012. They provide crop nutrition product/strategy to small and large-scale farmers that ensures high yields by implementing less expensive, but highly effective crop nutrition combinations, better crops, raise farmer returns, improve farmer livelihoods and ensure food security and sustainable development. The visionary entrepreneur expanded his operations to aid in the strengthening of Ghana’s economy and empowerment of farmers across the sixteen (16) regions and 256 districts of the country through the Planting for Food and Jobs campaign among others.
