General News of Monday, 29 March 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comCultural Affairs Officer at the US Embassy, Liz Ategou has said the creation of a national alumni association (US-Ghana Alumni Association) will help beneficiaries of various exchange programmes do more for their communities and country at large. According to her, this will also encourage them to take up leadership roles to impact knowledge they acquired from the exchange programmes to others. Speaking at the launch of the Alumni executive board in Accra on Saturday, March 27, 2021, Liz Ategou said, “I realized that alumni of US government-sponsored exchange programmes are all doing pretty great things in our communities continuing to demonstrate leadership and applying knowledge from the exchange programmes to solve local challenges.”"I also realized that we can be doing so much more if we organize all of these amazing individuals to come together under a national alumni association,” she continued. Liz Ategou noted that the US embassy is committed to ensuring the growth of the Association. Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin graced the occasion, his predecessor, Professor Aaron Mike Ocquaye, among other dignitaries were present too.

Source: GhanaWeb March 29, 2021 17:37 UTC