Stakeholders have been urged to play their respective roles in nurturing school pupils to become responsible and productive citizens. The advice was given by the Chief Executive Officer of SHAPE Attitude Ghana, Wonderful Baisie Ghartey, at the speech and prize giving day of the GOPA School Complex, a preparatory school at Jukwa on 9 August 2018.
The Centre for School and Community Science and Technology Studies (SACOST) of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) in collaboration with Department of Theatre Arts and Shape Attitude Ghana on Tuesday, 5th June, 2018 observed this year’s UN-World Environment Day Celebration at the Winneba Lorry Station.
The event which was to raise global awareness about the declining condition of the environment as well as educate people on the importance of keeping healthy and maintaining a green environment was held under the theme “Beat Plastic Pollution”.
Pupils of Effutu Municipal Assembly Junior High School, Winneba, have been advised to desist from indiscriminate littering and encourage people in their communities to adopt good sanitary practices. The advice was given to the pupils when the Director SHAPE Attitude Ghana gave a talk at the school during one of his visits to schools on sensitisation and awareness raising campaigns.
Ezy Car bin was launched at a durbar in Winneba on 28th April, 2018. The bin is to help keep cars clean through controlled and responsible refuse disposal methods while in cars. It will reduce vehicular littering and disposal of refuse by passengers in moving vehicles.
Final year students from three tertiary institutions in the Central Region of Ghana have been urged to go out and act as agents of change in their communities. This advice was given to students of University of Education, Winneba (UEW), Cape Coast Technical University (CCTU) and the University of Cape Coast (UCC) during the annual orientation of final year students who will be joining the National Service Scheme. The event is organised annually in March and April by the Central Regional National Service Secretariat.
The College of Community Health Nursing, Winneba executed a routine clean-up exercise on their campus on Saturday, March 17, 2018. As part of their activities, SHAPE Attitude Ghana was invited to speak to the students on its anti-littering campaign.
SHAPE Attitude Ambassadors at GOPA School Complex, Jukwa in the Central Region, undertook a sensitisation campaign on clean environment during the march past marking the 61st independence anniversary of Ghana at Jukwa.
SHAPE Attitude Ghana ceased the opportunity of the “Theatre for Development project” by the final year students of the Department of Theatre Arts from the University of Education, Winneba to propagate SHAPE Attitude’s message of avoiding indiscriminate littering and open defecation in Warabeba Peace Child School on 1st March, 2018. The message was carried by Mr. Binji Seidu Zakaria, team leader of the facilitators from students of Department of Theatre Arts.
Final year students of the Department of Theatre Arts, University of Education, Winneba, embarked on a “Theatre for Development project” with ‘Your Health First’ as the theme. The project dubbed “Viable means for promoting positive attitudes towards sanitation” was undertaken at Warabeba, a fishing village near Winneba. The project which was part of the final year requirements from the students, also aimed at raising awareness and funds to rehabilitate the only public toilet in the community to stop open defecation.
A durbar was held by the Seventh Day Preparatory School in Winneba on 11 August 2017 to mark the 20th anniversary of the School. The theme chosen for the occasion was on holistic education.
The guest speaker for the occasion spoke about holistic education which he explained was not about the orthodox classroom education but rather the ability of one preparing himself for analytical thinking in all spheres of life. He called on parents and teachers to work together to achieve it.