Ghana’s Ashesi gets $1m grant to fund new engineering programme
The Ashesi University Foundation has received $1 million Global Impact Funding Grant from the King Innovation Fund to support the university.
The grant will be used to help launch Ashesi’s groundbreaking new engineering programme which will help drive the important innovations that Africa needs, Ashesi announced August 30, 2013 on its website.
The gift allows for “construction to begin on the new engineering building, which will house classrooms and labs designed for in-depth, hands-on learning in electrical and computer engineering, mechanical engineering, product design and physics,” said Ashesi.
According to Patrick Awuah, Ashesi’s Founder and President, the grant is going to make an enormous impact as “we further our work to nurture ethics, innovation and entrepreneurship among our students – the future leaders and entrepreneurs of Africa”.
The King Innovation Fund was founded by Robert and Dorothy King, and gives grants through the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Global Impact Funding Trust.
By Ekow Quandzie
This is excellent addition to this great institution and more of this grant will be required in the future to further continue to build. Ghanaians and other foreign nationals in the sub-region are winners as well as benefactor for this great initiative