The Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Cape Coast has launched a food bank initiative project to support the less privileged students of the university.
The project, christened Sankofa Food Bank Initiative, was unveiled during the Annual General Assembly of the Students’ Representing Council and seeks to relieve students who are unable to meet their feeding needs by providing some food items to such individuals.
Speaking at the unveiling of the project, the SRC president, Mr. Kwabena Adotei Adjetey said the needs of students are paramount to the students’ leadership hence, the establishment of this food bank initiative to support the less privileged students.
He said the executive council realized that it is in the middle of the semester that crisis on feeding sets in and the food bank is going to complement the scholarships students are given.
“…this semester’s food bank, we are spending over GHC52,000 on sustenance in feeding students. The target number is, one thousand students must be the beneficiaries of this food bank… students with special needs are going to be automatic beneficiaries of the food bank initiative,” he hinted.
Aside from the food bank initiative, the SRC also signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Directorate of Health Services of the University of Cape Coast for a Stress-Free Healthcare project.
The SRC president indicated that “What we intend to do is to make life at the University hospital much comfortable for our students so that when they go, they do not need to have money in hand before they can get access to some services. The SRC will take care of that by putting seed money into the account of the hospital that every bill be withdrawn from so that any student that will go the hospital can be taken care of”.
The project seeks to cater to the health care needs of students who would incur costs at the hospital and may not have the financial strength to bear the cost and an amount of fifteen thousand Ghana cedis was designated for it as sod money.
Mr. Adotei however hinted that, the SRC intends not to side-line the university’s healthcare policies for its students but rather a move to reduce the stress the students in accessing healthcare in the university.
SOURCE: ERIC SEKYI/ATLFM
