“Talent wins games but teamwork and intelligence wins championships” Michael Jordan
The maiden edition of the Binduri Basic Excellence Awards took place at Tony’s Restaurant at Bazua on Saturday, 23rd December, 2017.
The annual performances of students at the BECE and WASSCE from the Binduri District have been bad and not encouraging, so we decided to help remedy the situation in our own little way by organizing an annual award event to give out some awards to hardworking and excellent students to serve as motivators to upcoming ones.
The event hall was filled up with dignitaries from Ghana Education Service and a number of teachers from the various schools in the district. In the hall were also students from the various schools who had awards to pick up. Some media houses were also present.
There were some great musical performances by a traditional ‘googi’ music group to the delight of many.
Giving Back to Society
“If you wait until you can do everything for everybody, instead of something for somebody, you’ll end up not doing nothing for nobody.” ~ Malcom Bane
The idea of giving awards to individual Junior High School Students for outstanding performances after an annual quiz was brought up by Prosper Ngoswini.
Since 2013, the Bazua Youth Association (BAYA), which we are part of has been organizing various activities, including a quiz for all Junior High Schools in the Binduri District during its Annual Week Celebrations. BAYA gives awards to deserving schools for outstanding performances in the activities.
Additionally, three of us teamed up to add to those awards so that individual students who represented their schools in the quiz and also best students who had just passed out of the BECE in the preceding sitting would be awarded too. So, three of us decided to pull their own resources together and to source for support to give awards to the individual students who deserved to be awarded after the annual week quiz.
More importantly, it is the aim of these three that giving awards to the students would help motivate, encourage and spearhead them to do better at the Basic Education Certificate of Examination(BECE) and to go further to do well at the Senior High School level or the West African Senior Secondary Certificate of Examination (WASSCE).
It is also the aim of the awards team to contribute to the development of education in the district and our contribution to the institutions and of knowledge and learning.
Awards Team
The awards team was made up of Prosper Ngoswini Ndego Wego, Michael Akparibo Alung and Godwin-Xavier Ayeebo.
Participated Schools
All the Junior High Schools in the district both public and private schools, which the total number is about twenty-six (26) were invited as done annually since 2013, but this year, about seventeen (17) schools participated in the quiz.
After the quiz, the first three schools were announced and it emerged that Bazua Christian Academy topped the quiz and came first, Gumyoko Junior High School came second and Bazua Roman Catholic Junior High School came third and these schools were given awards by BAYA. So, the Binduri Basic Excellence Awards Team also added some awards for the students who represented these schools.
Awards
The Binduri Basic Excellence Awards Team had categories of awards that included Best English, Best Math, Best Science and Overall Best Student, Best Debaters, Best 2017 BECE Student and the Outstanding Achiever’s award and deserving students were given nicely packaged awards that included dictionaries, text books, exercise books, calculators and schoolbags.
Donors
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” ~ Albert Einstein
The awards team sought for support from institutions and individuals and had some donations to support the programme. The team wishes to express unreservedly our gratitude and appreciation to all those who supported the event with cash and or their ideas. Donations from Prosper Ngoswini, Benjamin Ndego, Dominic Ndego, Michael Akparibo Alung, Patrick Sambian, Felix Kaba, Regentropfen Education Foundation, an educational NGO based in Bolgatanga and founded by Rev.Dr. Fr. Moses Asaah Awinongya, Jacob Yakubu Abanga, David Agana, Amos James Banpil and Godwin-Xavier Ayeebo.
We wish to encourage and urge many other individuals and organizations to support this annual event to help uplift the educational standards of the district and put some smiles on the faces of the young ones.
Ghana Education Service-Binduri
The District Director of the Ghana Education Service together with her team of senior officers embraced the novelty of the event and were represented adequately. We must add that the GES District Director has so much interest in the upliftment of educational performances in the district and she works hard with her team to support some of these similar events. The Awards Team together with the awardees wish to thank you profoundly and do ask for more collaborations in such events in the future.
Award Winners
The following won various categories of awards
Eliasu Mbugri (Overall Best, Best Math and Science Student)
Caroline Anani (Best English Student)
Matthew Abariga (Best 2017 BECE Student)
Best Debaters had awards
Outstanding Achiever had an award
Others
Conclusion
When you learn, teach. When you get, give.” – Maya Angelou
We continue to thank all those who honoured our invitations and helped made the event a success, particularly, the GES team, the teachers, other distinguished people, students, media people and more importantly the MC for the day, Sumaila Musah
We look forward to seeing another BEA in 2018, we therefore encourage all sons and daughters of Binduri and philanthropists to get involved to help add more value to our young ones and transform them to become transformal and generational leaders.
Invited guests were served with some light soup with chevon (goat meat) some khebabs and some drinks.
The occasion ended successfully around 18:30GMT
©2017, Awards Team
