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STUDENTS’ REPRESENTATIVE COUNCILUNIVERSITY FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
(OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT)
(CENTRAL)
TTFPP PRESS SPEECH
It’s my pleasure today to join this occasion in the mist of all to address the trending and prevailing issues that surrounds TTFPP.
I know that today’s deliberation will serve to enlighten many who have misconceptions of the program or little knowledge.
TTFPP was incepted in 1993, a program where a full trimester is devoted for practical field work in rural communities, mostly deprived. It’s a unique feature of the university that has successfully blended its academic program with intensive practical based program. The University trains student not only in the classroom on campus but extends to understanding the challenges of deprived communities and the need to solve those challenges. This is the uniqueness of the products of this University.
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s quite unfortunate that not all students who attend this program recognize and understand its importance and so are reluctant toward the activities of this trimester, performing the activities of the program as usual academic program without considering it as a platform for personal development.
However, the contributions of this program to the personal development of students in general cannot be under estimated, it is such experiences that build up students and provide them the apparatus to deal with the development challenges of deprived communities and the nation at large.
The program quality has improved over the years engaging students from various faculties in the university across all the four campuses. This offers opportunities to students to broaden their knowledge and experience as they learn from each other and build the spirit of team work. This is very essential in this current global world requiring not only the effort of an individual but collective individuals.
Ladies and gentlemen, the program immerse group of students within identified communities to experience the livelihood of the people so as to examine and report the development problems of the communities and the needs of the people from the native perspective. They unravel development needs of communities such as portable water, schools, health centers, electricity and other challenges all tailored towards national development.
In harmony with the university Vision, the program tackles national development problems from the grass root by active and constructive interaction between the university and communities.
Some objectives of the program include;
⦁ Promoting active and constructive interactions of both students and staff with the local communities to facilitate socio-economic transformation.
⦁ Exposing both students and lecturers, practically, to the nexus of development problems of deprived communities in Ghana and particularly in Northern Ghana;
⦁ fostering favorable attitudes in students towards working in deprived communities
⦁ Supporting the District Assemblies, Local communities and other development actors to implement and sustain the government’s decentralization and other pro-poor program
⦁ Placing the University in a better position to provide useful services through the exchange of knowledge and its application to address the intractable development needs and aspirations of these communities;
With these one can gladly say that the university is in the direction of serving as the light of the North and the nation as a whole as it champions this course. It goes to confirm our resolve to make our knowledge available for service as enshrined in the UDS anthem “Knowledge for service”
Ladies and gentlemen, a program of this nature cannot be without challenges and as such students sent to these deprived communities are in one way or the other faced with the challenges in these communities. Some of these are electricity, and relatively good accommodation, but that notwithstanding, let’s think of the experience, exposure and the preparation of our student to work in such difficult environment that the TTFPP carries with it.
In the selection of communities to be included in TTFPP, certain factors are considered so that students are not unnecessarily stressed up. Some of these include availability of potable water, accessible road and market. Whilst this is good, we think, it also denies many other communities that opportunity to be profiled and so their problems and potential are left unnoticed. We will like to appeal to NGOs, Government and donor agencies to support students with solar lamps, water purifiers, mosquito net and vehicles so that students can equally visit and stay in such communities for TTFPP.
Ladies and gentlemen, what brings down my spirit most is the fact that after all these difficult times student go through during their stay at the community the report they come out with remains unattended to.
In these reports are reliable baseline data that can help in the implementation of some Government flagship programs such as One District One Factory, One village One dam and Planting for food and jobs. We therefore will like to use this opportunity again to invite NGOs, Governmental Organization and all Co-operate Entities to make good use of the report from the course of study of our student in addressing community needs.
Ladies and gentlemen, I therefore conclude by urging all students to contribute their best during their stay in the community to unravel the developmental problems and Potential of their individual communities to uplift the already high name of our noble institution higher.
Long live Africa………...!!!!!!!
Long live Ghana…………!!!!!
Long live U.D.S …….!!!!!!
THANK YOU
Signed:
Mr. Amoah Nketia Ebenezer-Central SRC President
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