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Profiling The Kufuor Scholars: Alirimbey Alhaji Elvis
Alirimbey Alhaji Elvis is a professional anaesthetist born in the small village of Tiedema at Chuchuliga in the Builsa District of Upper East Region on 10th February 1984. His journey from childhood to the hardworking professional he is today has not been an easy one. It’s been a journey of both stress and heartbreak.
Without any reliable source of family funding, he’s had to work as a farm labourer for a large part of his life to fund his education from the Alang Primary School, through to the Chuchuliga Junior High School (JHS), to Sandema Senior High School before entering the Bolgatanga Nurses Training College. The selection of educational institutions was strategic to enable him to continue to work and school since he badly needed the funding.
As fate would have it, he continued to the University for Development Studies in Tamale after completing nursing training. His brother who had read about the Kufuor Scholars Program (KSP) in the newspapers encouraged him to apply. He did and was meritoriously selected among the fourteen (14) pioneer Kufuor Scholars Program Class of 2018.
Alhaji says the KSP has groomed him to become a very tolerant, honest, time bound and results oriented professional anaesthetist and also pastor. It’s also helped him become a versatile team player and a better leader although he had already held various leadership positions before joining the program including compound prefect in JHS and president of the Assemblies of God Christian Ministry at the Bolgatanga Nursing Training College.
“KSP has also given me the platform to network with relevant people and institutions, cultivate a rare working ethics and broadened my horizon about leadership, development and governance,” he said in an interview.
“A heart of gratitude to God Almighty, the former President John Agyekum Kufuor, CEO of the John A. Kufuor Foundation, coordinators and other staff for the opportunity granted me to reach this far. Life wouldn’t have been the same without such timely intervention,” he added.
Apart from his Bsc in Nursing from the University for Development Studies and Diploma in Registered General Nursing from Bolgatanga Nurses Training College, he also holds a Diploma in Theology from Assemblies of God Theological Seminary in Kunbungu, and a Certificate in Leadership and Health Service Administration from the University of Washington, USA.
He is currently the anchor of the anaesthesia departments of two hospitals in the Builsa North District; the Sandema Government Hospital and St. Lucas Hospital. He is also a pastor with Assemblies of God – Ghana church and also Chief Executive Officer of El Shaddai Ventures, the only ICT centre in his home village Chuchuliga. His hobbies include mentoring other young people, public speaking, leading religious activities and computing.