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Ketasco Alumni Won Scholarship Worth $82K For MIT In The US

A former student of Keta Senior High School (Ketasco), Justine Akorfa Dagadu, has gained admission into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US.

The native of Kedzi in the Volta Region lived most of her life in Agbogbloshie, a deprived community in Accra, where she lacked the basics of a ”serene environment with efficient systems and facilities”.

Despite the challenges, she completed her alma mater in 2019, where she studied General Science and finished in the top one percent of her class.

Dagadu, the daughter of a retired driver and a mom who sells local foods to supplement their income faced a financial hurdle in her quest to achieve higher education.

Overcoming the financial setback ”Things began to turn in my favour, however, when I got accepted into the Young Achievers Foundation Ghana (YAF Ghana) Scholars Program in 2021,” she said.

The resilient trailblazer has become the first in her community to pursue not just an undergraduate degree but one at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA on a full scholarship worth $82,000 a year for four years.

”I view this as an avenue of new beginnings, and a chance for unprecedented growth, not just for me, but for every other child in my community and beyond,” she said.

Dagadu plans to pursue a joint concentration in Bioengineering and International Development.

After graduating, she hopes to give children in communities like Agbogbloshie a better fighting chance in life.

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