‘Concentrate on your studies’
This year’s Nneka Youth Foundation (NYF), Camp has been held at Ve-Gbodome in the Afadzato South District of the Volta Region with a call on children to concentrate on their studies.
Rev. Fr Isaac Benuyena, the Facilitator of the Nneka Youth Foundation, said children who study seriously are able to achieve their goals in life.
This year’s camp, which attracted more than 700 participants weekly, was on the theme: “The World Changers Camp.” Over the last two years, the NYF has made giant strides in changing the lives and mindsets of more 1,000 children.
The foundation helped to address issues of teenage pregnancy, drug abuse among the youth in rural areas as well as poor performance in examinations through the organisation of youth development programmes.
Resource persons from various professions engaged the participants on issues such as social vices and youngsters career counselling, grooming and ethics.
The Presidential Candidate of the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP), Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom, and his running mate, Madam Brigette Dzorgbenuku, later joined the participants in camp and inspired the children to be focused on what they set themselves to do.
The Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL), as part of its social corporate social responsibility towards improving the reading habits of children, supported the NYF with 400 free copies of the Junior Graphic.
A quiz competition was organised based on questions from the Junior Graphic, with 10 teams participating.
At the end of the event, the Puma Group placed first, followed by the Immanual Group and the Anointed Group.
The winners were given souvenirs from the GCGL and the other sponsors including Stanbic Bank, Olam Ghana, Indomie and Promassidor Company.
The Camp Co-ordinator, Madam Cecilia Fiaka, said she took the initiative four years ago to start with the camp to help deal with the developmental problems among school dropouts in the communities.
She said on a number of occasions when she visited her village, she got troubled by the number of young girls aged between 13 and 14, who had become pregnant and young boys who were also abusing drugs.