Kumasi, (Ashanti Region) 6 Nov. The University of Science and Technology (UST) branch of the Asante Students’ Union (ASU) is to spend three million cedis on its annual vacation classes for second cycle students this year. The union spent 2.5 million cedis on the same programme last year. Mr. Kwame Agyeman, a member of the council of elders of the union, announced this at a meeting in Kumasi organised to welcome a member from New York and also to discuss the welfare of the union. He said members would embark on outreach programmes to five districts in the region to educate the communities on health-related and social issues. Mr. Agyeman said the union’s programmes are financed through members’ contributions and appealed to educationists philanthropists, as well as chiefs in the region for sponsorship. Mr. Kwame Asiedu Dompreh, a medical staff at Bronx-Lebanon Medical Centre, New York, who was the guest, advised the students to be serious with their studies. He called on them to remain united and help raise education in the region saying that they should always portray the cultural values of the Ashantis. He assured them that he would contact friends and organisations in the United States to help them financially in their activities. Mr. Atta Buabeng, president of the union said ASU is committed to rendering social services, especially in the area of mass education, to help raise the status and enhance the aspirations of the disadvantaged.
