14-year-old Marilyn Nanayaa Gyan has been crowned the winner of Citi FM’s 2014 Write Away Contest.
She takes home GHC 5,000, a certificate of participation, a medal, a hamper from Standard Chartered Bank and five boxes of indomie.
Marilyn attends the Falsyd Foundation School in Accra.
Vanessa Inkoom came second while Nana Akua Aboraa Owusu Ababio Nhyira placed third.
Vanessa will take home GHC 3,000, a medal, a hamper from Standard Chartered Bank and five boxes of Indomie while Nana Akua takes home GHC 1,000, a medal, a hamper from Standard Chartered Bank and five boxes of Indomie.
Speaking at the event, the Acting Director General of the Ghana Education Service, Charles Aheto Tsegah, who was the chairman for the occasion said the Write Away Contest is “the best public contest that is dedicated to building the minds of children.”
Mr. Tsegah praised Citi FM for demonstrating consistency “to drive change.”
“We are not harnessing the potential of our children,” he lamented.
Educationist and Chief Examiner of the contest Annis Hafar, speaking at the event has charged the Education Minister, through her representative at the event to “erect billboards across the country to encourage children to always read and write.”
Special awards were also given to deserving contestants while the rest of the participants in the top 20 went home with five boxes of indomie and a certificate of participation.
Participants in this year’s contest were made to write their own short stories, with their own unique characters which ended with the idiom: ‘A bird in hand is worth two in a bush.’
The Write-Away Contest is sponsored by Standard Chartered Bank and Indomie Instant Noodles. The contest is supported by Finlite and the Volta River Authority (VRA) and powered by 97.3 Citi FM.
By: Efua Idan Osam/citifmonline.com/Ghana