My Nonprofit Reviews

Counting my blessings, I am in no doubt that I will begin with no other than what God through the Educational Pathways International Scholarship has done for me and my family.
I joined this wonderful family by name EPI in 2015 after it was recommended to me by a friend. That was just about the right time for I was in serious financial constraints at that time. With virtually no one to help push me through my tertiary education, EPI came in to support me literally like an angel sent into my life.
Educational Pathways International stands out among other scholarship programs being run on campus for a number of reasons but time and space will permit me to mention a few.
Indeed I applied alone but it seem as if it is the whole family that was awarded this great financial assistance. By the grace of God through EPI, I did not abandon my tertiary education. With EPI sponsorship, I am now supporting my junior sister who is currently a third year student in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. With this same financial assistance, I have been able to set my elder sister up in business and now she can adequately support herself and my junior sister as well. One will understand why I normally say “EPI is not just about the individual but the family entirely”. You are simply given more than just enough.
Also, EPI I must say is a “family” and not just an NGO. Our benefactors Mr. and Mrs. Lafrance are completely our parents. Their parental roles are indispensable. They counsel us, encourage us and never cease the opportunity to fly all the way from the USA to join us in our annual family gathering. It has always been a delight having them around. A family we are and forever will be. No wonder we address our Program Director as “Aunty Eunice”.
EPI is not just interested in supporting us financially but building and guiding us to be complete persons . In this wonderful family, we are taught very essential topics like: “How to prepare for an interview, Preparing a CV, Goal Setting, Time management etc. “It is an undeniable fact that these and many more like these are very essential in surviving in both our social and business life. I must be frank to say that it was at these meetings that I learnt how to go about writing my CV and I am more a better a person than I was before joining EPI.
One other thing I love so much about EPI is that, it teaches its members how to give back to society. It is not only a requirement in filing an application for EPI scholarship in writing but you are taught how to go about it. Periodically members of this wonderful family go and help the teaching staff of Akim Asafo Senior High School in the eastern region of Ghana as a way of giving back to society. It is really a delight as members of EPI offer help in the various subjects and as well counsel and interact with the students.
Once on EPI, it is a forever adoption. EPI does not end when one is out of the first degree program. Wherever a member goes, from furthering one’s education even to social events like marriages, EPI has always been there. These are few among the lot why EPI has been and will forever be the best in my heart.
To my God-sent foster parents Mr. and Mrs. Lafrance, may the good Lord keep on blessing you for the great roles you are playing in the lives of some of us. Tears of joy always well up in my eyes when I remember the day I was made a member of this family through no extraordinary qualifications but just that you hear and understand it when the needy cries.
Thank you.
KINGSLEY EMMANUEL BENTUM
5th YEAR DOCTOR OF VETERINARY MEDICINE
KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Educational Pathways International (EPI) is one of the best non-profit scholarship awarding organizations that I have ever come across. Like its name sounds, it seek not only to help students financially but also continuously create in them new pathways of hope, determination and to strive for academic excellence even as they climb up the educational ladder. All this I say because I am a living witness to what this wonderful organization is doing in Ghana and other parts of the world.
I must confess that, there are several reasons why I will recommend EPI to many but for want of space and time as well as for the purpose of this review, I have decided to stick to these cogent ones out of the lot I can enumerate.
To begin, EPI as an organization is not restricted to some selected few of individuals like say only students of Engineering or Medicine as some other scholarship organizations do. Rather it opens its tentacles to make known its intentions to the whole student populace. It is well advertised and their doors are always opened for any enquiry one would like to make. This has endeared the organization to the student populace so much that it is the most talked about organization on various campuses.
Another interesting thing about EPI I that I cherished so much is their selection process. The documents requested are always within the reach of any student willing to apply and enough time is given for aspiring students to assemble them before the closing date. Also a thorough and an unbiased interview is conducted for the selected few to ensure they indeed deserve the grant and this is beside the scrutiny of the about thousand pieces of documents submitted for consideration. This always involves the constant annual visitations of Mr. and Mrs. Lafrance to Ghana and even in situations where circumstances prevent them from getting involved there has always been a live streaming of the interview to suffice for their absence, so committed they have always been.
Furthermore, this wonderful organization has always kept to their promise of grants and has not only been prompt in honouring them but annually they seem to have always increased the grants to students. EPI gives you more than an average student will need to cater for his fees, books, accommodation as well as upkeep money and any other need as they may come. It is indeed an all in all scholarship. In a nut shell. I will always say that, their grants have always been enough and on time.
EPI does not only look at our tertiary education but also has great interest in the lives of our sisters and brothers in the secondary schools as well. It may interest you to know that as part of its annual programme, beneficiaries from EPI go to Akim Asafo Senior High School, one of the less privileged schools in the eastern region of Ghana to teach them as well as assist them in any way they can. This is so much unlike many other organizations at least with the few I know of. God bless EPI, Sara and Leonard Lafrance for what they are doing for generations.
Kingsley Emmanuel Bentum
4th Year Doctor of Veterinary
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)

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