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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 21, 2024) \u2014 <\/strong>Each year, the Lewis Honors College\u00a0at the University of Kentucky seeks to identify high school seniors who believe in bettering the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the world. One shining example of a member of the honors college is sophomore Akua Asamoah who, as a UK freshman, founded CATS for Ghana in March 2024.<\/p>\n\u201cCATS For Ghana is a club dedicated to serving as an additional resource to help students in the Abotanso Village in Kumasi, Ghana succeed in school,\u201d said Asamoah, who is also a 2024 Chellgren Fellow. \u201cWe offer free tutoring services to elementary and middle schoolers in the village via Zoom.\u201d<\/p>\n
The club has about 25 members, Asamoah said. Not all are from Ghana, but it has helped Ghanan students find each other and build a sense of community at UK.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt definitely allows people to get to know Ghana more, and about the culture,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The club members plan to tutor more than 200 students in a rural village in Ghana, Asamoah said.<\/p>\n
Given that agriculture is Ghana\u2019s main industry, the ability for families to have disposable income for healthcare is a challenge. By facilitating the education of Ghana students, CATS for Ghana will help poor, rural families be able to improve their employment outlook and afford health care.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy hope is to help the students do well,\u201d she said. \u201cIn Ghana, if you don\u2019t do well in school, you can\u2019t go to college, you can\u2019t get a job, you can\u2019t pay for health care.<\/p>\n
\u201cCATS For Ghana is an organization brought about to reduce health and educational inequality in Ghana,\u201d she continued. \u201cI came into college already passionate about health and education and equality in Ghana. I didn\u2019t want to wait until I had an M.D. to have an impact on a community that\u2019s important to me. It\u2019s my way of learning more about the link between education and health care access and affordability.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although Asamoah, who is also a student in the UK College of Public Health,\u00a0has lived in Kentucky since she was eight years old, her country of birth, Ghana, has never been far from her heart. Once Asamoah became a U.S. citizen, she visited Ghana twice. During high school, Asamoah donated 500 books and received $500 in grant funding to provide electronics, supplementing her father\u2019s initiative to renovate the public school and build a library in Ghana. Asamoah also provided online tutoring during the pandemic through The Covid NineTEEN Project as a freshman in high school. The combination of her virtual tutoring experience and her passion for improving education in Ghana led to her founding CATS for Ghana.<\/p>\n
Asamoah plans to take her major in public health and minor in economics to medical school through UK’s Early Assurance Program to perform global surgery for Doctors without Borders. In addition to CATS for Ghana, Asamoah conducts research with UK Gatton College of Business and Economics Professor Aaron Yelowitz, Ph.D.,\u00a0is part of the Global Educators Association, and hopes to be accepted into the Rural Scholars Program.<\/p>\n
Any student interested in joining Asamoah\u2019s efforts to prepare Ghana students to succeed in school can look for an upcoming event here: https:\/\/uky.campuslabs.com\/engage\/organization\/forabetterghana.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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