[ 2016-11-14 ]

GIMPA alumni to build $10 million students’ hostel facility
A 600-BED capacity students’ hostel facility is
to be constructed at the Ghana Institute of
Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) in
Accra, by the GIMPA Alumni Association.
Work on the $10 million project is scheduled to
start in February 2017, and wiil be completed
after two years.

The President of the GIMPA Alumni Association, Mr
Norman Yemetey Tetteh, made this known on
Thursday, when he launched the GIMPA Alumni
homecoming celebration.

A year-long activities have been outlined for the
homecoming celebration on the theme: “Keeping
Greenhill Alive.”

Mr Tetteh said the alumni association was entering
into a private partnership to put up the facility,
and indicated that the alumni had completed the
financial arrangement with the partners.

Accommodation challenges

He indicated that the alumni association had
realised that GIMPA lacked hostel facilities and
added that the institution had a few hostels,
which housed a few people for a short stay to
write exams.

He said many students of GIMPA outside Accra faced
challenges of finding suitable hostels around the
institute and, therefore, the decision to
construct the hostel facility was to address the
challenges that students of the institute faced.

Mr Tetteh said authorities of GIMPA had given
their blessing to the project, and indicated that
the hostel facility would be run in partnership
with GIMPA management.

Other activities

Mr Tetteh said the alumni association would
proceed to the Akropong School for the Blind,
after the launch of the homecoming celebration, to
donate food items, non-alcoholic beverages and
toiletries worth GH¢4,000 to the school.

He mentioned ‘a happy hour’ where alumni and
students would interact, a congress, a health
walk, a candle light procession, a blind date for
old students to meet their friends, business
meetings, fun games and a fundraising dinner dance
and awards ceremony, as some of the activities
lined up for the year-long celebration.

The Vice-President of the GIMPA Alumni
Association, Mr Kwaku Sakyi-Danso, said since
coming to office a year ago, the executive members
of the association had revived the association and
established strong contacts with the school
authorities.

Source - Graphiconline

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