Volta River Authority Rolls out Second Career Guidance and Counselling Programme for Scholarship Beneficiaries

The second edition of the Career Guidance and Counseling Programme for the beneficiaries of the Authority's Community Development Programme (CDP) Scholarship Scheme is aimed at empowering the beneficiaries to put extra effort into their academic work and to demystify every associated myth about studying while making good career decision for the future.

Counseling the beneficiaries, the Director of Career and Placement Centre of the University of Ghana, Mrs. Joycelene Buckman, urged the beneficiaries to challenge themselves by developing the passion for reading anything they can lay their hands on since it would aid them improve their vocabularies in order to have mastery over the other areas of study.

She encouraged the beneficiaries to set goals for themselves saying it would keep them focused on what they hoped to achieve in the future. "If you are going to be a lawyer, you need to set goals with regards to what grades you need to attain. Without goals you only end up drifting from one end to the other anytime your friends say anything to you," She said.

Mrs. Buckman, on a career choice for the beneficiaries, asked them to look out for their interest, ability, value and personality.

Addressing the beneficiaries on behalf of the Chief Executive of the Authority Ing. Isaac Kirk Koffi, the Head of Corporate Communications at the Volta River Authority, Mr. Samuel Fletcher, lauded the second edition of the programme saying it is an improvement upon the first.

"There have been some observations about how we can make the second edition of the Career Guidance and Counselling Programme more relevant to the needs of our beneficiaries hence a few modifications such as the inclusion of second year students to the programme, making the programme more interactive with the beneficiaries, putting them into groups with counselors and bringing on board practical experiences, " he disclosed.

Mr Fletcher noted that the scholarship programme by the Authority is an expensive venture and therefore urged the beneficiaries to take their studies serious.

Various facilitators from some selected departments within the Authority and the Ghana Education Service who took the beneficiaries through a one-on-one interactive session advised the beneficiaries to be proactive in their studies.

 

 

A group photograph of the beneficiaries and the facilitators.

Some facilitators in a one-on-one with beneficiaries.

 

In other news (December, 2014)

• Press Release: Closure of Kpong Dam Access Road.
• Tribute by the Volta River Authority to the Late Ing. Dr. Louis Casely-Hayford.
• Volta River Authority holds rememberance service for the late Ing. Louis Casely-Hayford.
• VRA honoured by College of Engineering.
• Volta River Authority Launches Project Management Community of Practice
• South Sudan National Legislative Assembly Delegation visits Akosombo Generating Station.

 

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