Kumasi, Nov. 7, GNA - The Board of Trustees and Management of the Garden City University College (GCUC), a private tertiary institution in Kenyase near Kumasi, has instituted a scholarship scheme to benefit three brilliant but needy girls from the Kumasi Diocese of the Methodist Church each year.

The scheme, which is in memory of Madam Elizabeth Owusuaa, mother of Mr Albert Acquah, proprietor of the university, will enable the beneficiaries to pursue four-year undergraduate degree programmes in the university.

The university will spend 12.9 million cedis on each of the beneficiaries every year.

Dr Lord Asamoah, the Principal of the College, said the scholarship was to help poor parents from the trauma of educating their children through tertiary institutions.

He said the objective was to assist young girls who had the prospect and potential but lacked the needed resources. Dr Asamoah said apart from the Methodist Church, the university had also offered three scholarships to the Otumfuo Education fund and two to the Kenyase Traditional Council.

He said the success of the scheme in the first four years would determine the extension of the scheme and expressed the hope that the church would be able to select brilliant and hard working girls to the management of the College for scholarships.

Mr Jacob Gyau Kwabena Owusu, the Diocesan Lay President, thanked the Board and management of the College for the gesture. He said many societies in the diocese had established scholarship schemes at the basic levels of education but had not been able to do so at the tertiary levels.

Rt Rev. Nuh Ben Abubakr, the Diocesan Bishop, said the church would continue to help in the growth and development of the university to enable it continue assisting needy students in the church.