Department of Food Science and Technology Provides Breakfast For Team KNUST and Supporting Officials at 2022 Gusa Games
The Ghana University Sports Association (GUSA) Games 2022 was hosted by Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) from 4th to 19th November 2022. The Department of Food Science & Technology was selected among other food service providers to manage and prepare breakfast for Team KNUST and supporting officials. The Team KNUST comprised of sportmen or women of different disciplines including football, volleyball, basketball, athletics, and hockey while the supporting team was made up of officials from the LOC and its secretariat, medical, media, security, sanitation, drivers, IT, cadet corps (KNUST), sub-committees, and volunteers (under the various sub-committes). The Food Science and Technology Department employed its Food Processing Unit (FPU), managed by Dr. Eric Owusu Mensah (who is also a lecturer in the department), to provide the breakfast for an average of 850 people for 16 days.
The breakfast packages were made mainly from cereals (corn, oats, wheat, rice, and millet) and served with milk, bread, spread and egg. Beverages from cocoa were always available as an alternative for those who preferred that over the cereals. In all, about 13,600 sportmen, women and officials were fed by the Department during the GUSA games. Prior to the main Games, the Department provided similar breakfast packages to the Team KNUST and selected officials during a 32-day camping. The Ghana University Sports Association (GUSA) Games 2022 was hosted by Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) from 4th to 19th November 2022. The Department of Food Science & Technology was selected among other food service providers to manage and prepare breakfast for Team KNUST and supporting officials. The Team KNUST comprised of sportmen or women of different disciplines including football, volleyball, basketball, athletics, and hockey while the supporting team was made up of officials from the LOC and its secretariat, medical, media, security, sanitation, drivers, IT, cadet corps (KNUST), sub-committees, and volunteers (under the various sub-committes). The Food Science and Technology Department employed its Food Processing Unit (FPU), managed by Dr. Eric Owusu Mensah (who is also a lecturer in the department), to provide the breakfast for an average of 850 people for 16 days. The breakfast packages were made mainly from cereals (corn, oats, wheat, rice, and millet) and served with milk, bread, spread and egg. Beverages from cocoa were always available as an alternative for those who preferred that over the cereals. In all, about 13,600 sportmen, women and officials were fed by the Department during the GUSA games. Prior to the main Games, the Department provided similar breakfast packages to the Team KNUST and selected officials during a 32-day camping.
Special appreciation to the project lead and manager of the Food Processing Unit, Dr. Eric Owusu Mensah, who brought his extensive management skills to bear in providing this huge support to the GUSA games. It is also appropriate to show appreciation to the members of the GUSA sub-committee for food, KNUST; Dr (Mrs.) Phyllis Tawiah (Chairperson), Mrs. Theodora Oduro (Secretary), Mrs. Abigail Dzama Anderson, Rev (Mrs.) Irene Owusua Nkansah, Dr. Isaac Amoah, Mr. Francis Atondiba and Prof. (Mrs.) Faustina D. Wireko-Manu. Some alumni of the university and Teaching Assistants (TAs) including Veanne Gilchrist Acheampong, Harriet Wilson Arthur, Eunice Oforiwaa Denkyi, Yaa Twumasi Boadu, Ali Nafisahtu, Emmanuel Boakye, Joanna Quartey and Dorcas Nyanor voluntarily supported this project . The project could not have been successful without the hard work of the temporary staff of the Unit; Georgina Benewaa Yeboah (Project Assistant), Joyce Azumah, Patricia Dankwaa, Nurafie Afia, and Boakye Emmanuel. The backstopping staff from the accounting team; Mr. George Sarfo, Mrs Catherine Acquah , Mr. Nicholas Mwinsori and Mr. Stephen Mondi Awoogo, were amazing. The support from Prof Leonard K. Amekudzi (Provost, College of Science), Prof Isaac Williams Ofosu (Head, Department of Food Science & Technology), Miss Josephine Asare-Bediako (Senior Administrative Assistant, Department of Food Science & Technology), all teaching and non-teaching staff of the Department of Food Science & Technology, is very much appreciated.
