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Welcome to the ASCONS Web site!ASCONS is the abbreviation for Association of Community Nutrition Students. The Association was established in November 2001, first of all with the aim of uniting all students of the Community Nutrition Department and to ensure the welfare of all members and students of the University as a whole. Despite the problems encountered during the establishment, the founders including members of the first executive board in the persons of Mr. Ali Mohammed (president), Ms. Rose Kokui Dufe (vice president), Mr. Sayibu D. Andrews (secretary), Mr. Nii Adu K. Ibrahim (Organising secretary), Mr. Namsah Elijah (Exchange Officer), Ms. Gloria Y. Kobati (Treasurer) and Mr. Martin Adokiya Nyaaba (Nutrition/Health Officer) under the guidance of Rev. Prof. Saa Dittoh, Dean of students of the University and later on became the Chief Patron of the association relentlessly fought hard for it to succeed. ASCONS was different at that time from what it is now, it was a much smaller Association and every member knew every other member by name, but over the past four years, ASCONS has kept growing and has expanded its aims and objectives. ASCONS has by far become the most vibrant association in the University and has extended its focus and activities from only members and other students to include people outside the University especially the most deprived rural populists in the northern sector of the Ghana, where there are the highest levels of poverty and malnutrition, through outreach programmes to address pertinent nutritional issues relevant to the people. These nutritional issues to be addressed are identified with the help and advise of patrons, Ghana Health Service and other well-meaning organizations like UNICEF and also through surveys conducted by students and other existing survey reports. The purpose of the outreach programme is to improve and promote healthful nutritional practices among the people and to identify and discourage other harmful nutritional practices in order to improve health and well-being. The outreach programme began in 2003 as part of an Annual Nutrition week Celebration under the leadership of Abdulai Abdul- Rashid and has received immense support from all stakeholders ever since.
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