Vice President Commends Foreign Students in Ghana

Vice President, John Dramani Mahama has called for a mutually beneficial globalization between countries of Africa and the developed world.

He said the emergence of globalization has made the world a small place, requiring people all over the world to make the effort to learn about others culture to make interconnectivity and integration possible.

Mr. Mahama said this when a team of 20 students from the University of Hong Kong paid a cutesy call on him at the Castle, Osu in Accra.

The students were part of an exchange programme organized by Beyond the Pivot (BTP) a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) based in Heng in the Upper West Region.

The students are here to engage other foreign partners to have exchange programmes on trade, education and culture that would benefit both parties.

Mr. Mahama lauded the students for the initiative they had taken to come and share in an exchange programme with their counterparts in Wa in the Upper West Region.

He said their effort was commendable because if they had depended on National Geography, a documentary programme on television like many people do they would not have visited the country because that particular network portrays Africa as a continent of animals.

He said Africa was a beautiful continent like any other continent.

The Vice President urged them to give off their best and also learn from their new environment such that on their return, others would like to visit the country.

The Leader of the delegation, Miss. Violet Xu was full of praise for Ghana, saying the country was a dream land, and beacon of hope for Africa because of its peaceful nature and freedom of expression.

She said much as Ghana was peaceful it would still need assistance like many developed countries particularly in areas where the country lacks.

Miss. Xu explained that BTP was registered with the government of Hong Kong and had been working closely with Rural Aid Action Programme (RAAP).


|By: George Asirigo (Office Of The Vice President)