World Vision Ghana, in collaboration with Kings Hall Media Limited, Ghana Education Service, Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources, GAMA SWP, and Zoomlion Foundation, organized the first Masters Encounter for the northern sector as part of the ongoing School Sanitation Solutions (Triple-S) Challenge 2024. The event took place in Sunyani, the Bono Regional Capital.
Since 2018, World Vision Ghana and its partners have recognized the potential of children in developing sustainable solutions to Ghana’s sanitation challenges. Through various campaigns, they have engaged school children to showcase their knowledge and express their opinions on sanitation issues.
At Masters Encounter 1, ten contestants selected from nine regions and two zones in the northern sector demonstrated their understanding of environmental sanitation by defending their scripts.
The winner from each zone will advance to the Grand Finale, “The Battle of Champions,” to be held on Sunday, September 23, 2024, at the National Theatre as part of the 3rd Children’s Sanitation Fair.
This year’s competition, the fifth edition of the School Sanitation Solutions (Triple S) Challenge, was launched in Accra.
The challenge aims to unearth knowledge and solution-oriented ideas from children through a competition to tackle Ghana’s sanitation issues.
Open to all students in the country, across all sixteen regions, from primary six up to Junior High two; participants are expected to describe how sanitation problems adversely affect teaching and learning in their communities based on a topic to be announced in the newspapers.
The winner will be unveiled as a ‘Child Sanitation Diplomat’ and supported to spearhead sanitation development projects.
The Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Technical Coordinator for the NGO, Mr. Yaw Atta Arhin, stated that tremendous achievement has been made since the challenge was introduced.
“It has influenced the children to become sanitation conscious and agents of change,” he said. He noted that the program has also challenged children to co-create sustainable solutions to sanitation issues in their communities.
“It has also helped them become advocates for the removal of barriers and increased access to improved sanitation, particularly in basic schools,” he stressed.
Yaw Arhin added that World Vision will continue to support the government in accelerating access to improved basic sanitation in the country.
