The family of the late Prof. Steve Sobotie has launched an education fund to support needy but brilliant students.

The Prof. Steve Sobotie Education Fund was conceived to continue the legacy of Prof. Steve Sobotie who stood for equity and compassion.

The late Prof. Steve Sobotie was born in Fanti Mines, a small town between Tarkwa and Aboso in the Western Region of Ghana on 31^st August 1949.

He attended the Anglican Middle School at Tarkwa and continued his education at Tarkwa Secondary School, where he studied science. He then proceeded to Takoradi and Kumasi Polytechnics to study Electrical Engineering.

He then left the shores of Ghana to obtain a bachelor's degree in law and administration at Columbia College. He did another Bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Missouri all in the USA in 1975 and 1976 respectively.

In 1977, he joined KNUST as a lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering. In 1987, he left the country once again to attend the University of Birmingham in England where he graduated with a PhD in Industrial Engineering.

After serving KNUST for twenty-two years, he was awarded a secondment in March 1999 and joined the Kumasi Campus of the University of Education, Winneba as Head of campus.

Prof.  Sobotie served as a resource person for many governmental and nongovernmental organisations both within and outside the country.

The launch was under the theme: celebrating the legacy of Prof. Steve Sobotie: His faith, achievements and impact on humanity.

A trustee of the fund, Dr. Paul Kwadwo Addo of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology praised the late Prof. Sobotie for his humanitarian traits.

“He was able to see and develop talents Prof. Sobotie was somebody who was human centered so there’s the need to advance that part of him for the next generation to know, if you live a good life, posterity will always be kind to you and your good works,” he said.

Speaking at the launch at the Anglican Church, a trustee, Nana Dr. Michael Agyekum Addo, CEO of Mikaddo Holdings Ltd urged the citizenry to embrace Prof. Sobotie's TVET ideals for sustainable development.

“Vocational and technical training is crucial for survival in the 21^st century. The university students should especially take up those vocational skills like carpentry very seriously so they won’t be left out. It’s about time the youth think outside the box,” he said.