By Edmund Smith-Asante
It was great fun and excitement for
Zoomkids Club members when they took part in regional sanitation quiz
competitions to commemorate the 10th anniversary celebration of Zoomlion Ghana
Limited.
The National Coordinator of Zoomlion
Foundation, Mrs Sarah Kyei, said the objective of the quiz was to upgrade the
knowledge of school children on environmental sanitation.
As part of the event, pictures,
posters and banners depicting the harmful effects of poor sanitation were
displayed at all the venues of the quiz, as well as poetry recitals by some of
the schoolchildren to highlight the harmful effects of poor sanitation in
communities and schools.
The quiz
The quiz competition offered an
opportunity for the students to demonstrate the knowledge and skills they had
acquired on environmental sanitation through their participation in the
Zoomkids Club activities at their school level.
All the schools that participated in
the quiz competitions were members of the Zoomkids clubs, which is an
initiative of Zoomlion Foundation. The Zoomkids clubs are made up of
environmental, sanitation and health clubs in schools which aim at training
children as peer educators on environmental sanitation.
All participating pupils from the
various schools received exercise books, pens, mathematical sets, dictionaries,
dustbins, handwashing materials and certificates.
Winners
The 10 schools which emerged as
winners from the various regions included Fountain Gate International School,
Bolgatanga; Presby SSNIT Model, Wa; Bishops JHS, Tamale; Mother Smith
Preparatory School, Kumasi; Drobo Demonstrations JHS, Drobo; Kakumdo M/A JHS,
Cape Coast; Mary Summer Preparatory, Suhum; Kabore Basic School, Ho;
Teshie-Nungua Estate Basic, Accra and NavWest Basic School, Takoradi.
Miss Mary Tee and Ferdinand Akugre
emerged winners in the Upper East regional quiz competition. An excited Ms Tee
said “if I study hard I know I can win greater prizes in the future.”
Master Edmund Nyame Amponsa and
Mariwa Evelyn from the Drobo Demonstration School in Brong Ahafo were also
happy to be selected as winners for their school. Master Amponsa said, “I am
very happy that Zoomlion Ghana has given me this opportunity to be part of the
quiz competition. I know the sky will be my limit if I study very well.”
Miss Emmanuella Sarpong and Master
Kingsley Kwasi Boateng were the winners from the Eastern Region. Ms Sarpong
stated that “Zoomlion should organise many more quizzes to test our knowledge
on what we have learned at our Zoomkids Club.”
SHEP
The National SHEP Coordinator, Ms
Ellen Gyekye, who witnessed the Greater Accra Zoomkids clubs regional quiz,
impressed on Zoomlion Foundation to continue in the awareness creation of
sanitation issues.
She said, “It would be even good if
the Foundation could target kindergarten children to sensitise them to cleanliness,
personal hygiene and the need to stop littering.”
The Director of Adentan Municipal
Education office, Mrs Angela Tena Mensah, in a speech at the Greater Accra
regional quiz, congratulated Zoomlion Ghana Limited on the occasion of their
10th anniversary celebration, and urged the Foundation to continue to invest in
environmental awareness.
The Ashanti Region Metro Director of
SHEP, Madam Augustina Attakorah, also lauded the initiative of Zoomlion to get
basic schools to compete in sanitation programmes.
"Zoomlion needs to sustain its
efforts and endeavour to involve more basic schools in such competitions,"
she urged.
The Keta Municipal SHEP Coordinator,
Mr Franklin Ametepe, congratulated the winning school, Kabore Basic, and urged
the students to study hard.
He said “if you study hard you can
get several opportunities that you never dreamt of. School children should
learn to take environmental sanitation seriously to enable them to become good
citizens in society.”
Second stage
The second stage of the national
quiz competition took off on May 1, 2016 with contestants from the Northern
zone competing against each other at the Ghana Television Studio 2 in
Tamale.
The Upper East Region emerged
winners while Upper West came second, with Ashanti Region placing third in the
competition.
Mrs Kyei said the competition for
the Southern zone would take place on May 15, 2016, while the final stage of
the competition would take place on June 12, 2016.
She said all the quiz contests would
be broadcast live on Ghana Television at 12 p.m. on Sundays, with Mr Daniel
Afari Yeboah of “What do you know” fame as the quiz master.
This
story was first published by graphiconline.com on May 9, 2016
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