The John A. Kufuor Foundation has called on Level 100 students in the country's tertiary institutions to join the Kufuor Scholars Program (KSP).

A statement issued in Accra by Prof. Baffour Agyeman-Duah, chief executive officer of the Foundation explained the program, modelled around former President Kufuor’s values, provides a specialised three-year transformational leadership preparation for the African youth.

He said the KSP seeks to add value to the formal education tertiary students receive through activities like camping, excursions, seminars, webinars, practical leadership internships, and execution of personal projects.

Prof. Agyeman-Duah said the program aims “to produce leaders imbued with a strong sense of patriotism, leaders who are innovative, problem solvers, creative thinkers and knowledgeable in their respective fields of endeavour.”

The program, which students can apply to by contacting the Foundation, offers beneficiaries monthly stipends and opportunities to participate in international exchange programs.

The scholars are recruited competitively, and finalists are expected to have demonstrable leadership interest and experience in school, community, or at the national level, and display a commitment to service and integrity.

They must also demonstrate a non-toxic nationalistic orientation and the capacity to promote political and religious tolerance, human rights, and ethnic co-existence for national development.

Started in 2015, the Kufuor Scholars Program on an annual basis recruits 20 to 30 first-year students as scholars.

Commenting on their previous participation in the scholars’ program, former University of Ghana student Elizabeth Dansoa Osei, said; “with patriotism and the urge for global competition, I am now able to look beyond ethnicity, religion and politics in imagining a better future”.

“I better understand the dynamics of being a great leader and a change agent,” Gail Maame Ekua Ewusiwaa Cann-Woode of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology.

“KSP through Community Health Screening, and Cell Not Hell projects have inculcated in me the art of community service and the need to give back, within our means, to make meaningful and lasting impact in our society,” Nana Afriyie Duah of the University of Cape Coast added.