The Centre for School and Community Science and Technology Studies (SACOST), University of Education, Winneba (UEW) in collaboration with shape Attitude Ghana on Monday 5th June, 2017 celebrated the World Environment Day to educate and sensitise the general public on protecting the environment well for our survival. The theme for the occasion was “connecting people to nature.”
Shape Attitude Ghana would mark its third anniversary on June 5, 2017. The celebration is being organised in collaboration with The Centre for School and Community Science and Technology Studies (SACOST - UEW) and Zoom Lion Foundation. The theme for the year's celebration is dubbed Promoting Litter Free Environment. Three years down the line, the organisation is still in the business of sensitising local communities to avoid indiscriminate littering in order to have a clean environment.
Upcoming national service personnel who will be posted to the field in September 2017 were urged to act as agents of change as they perform their duties. The appeal was made by the Chief Executive Officer of Shape Attitude Ghana, Mr Wonderful Baisie Ghartey, at a pre-service orientation organised by the Central Regional Secretariat of the National Service Scheme at the University of Cape Coast on 7th April 2017.
The Coast for Christ Baptist Academy of Sankor, a suburb of Winneba, invited Shape Attitude Ghana to give a talk on indiscriminate littering and open defaecation to the pupils and teachers of the Academy on 29 March 2017.
Students of the Department of Theatre Arts found in the School of Creative Arts, University of Education, Winneba staged a performance at Alata in Apam on inculcating the concept of sanitation into the people as an intervention in maintaining good sanitary conditions in the town.
The performance comprised poetry recital, drama and dance. In all these, the central message was on maintaining good sanitary conditions by avoiding indiscriminate littering and dumping of refuse as well as open defecation.
Radio Peace 88.9 MHz FM, a community radio station based in Winneba, organised its annual Christmas party for children on December 30, 2016. The party is usually organised for disadvantaged children in and around Winneba. This year, it was almost 150 children from the Rafiki Orphanage Home and St Annas Children’s Home that were brought together for the party.
The Coast for Christ Ministries of Sankor, a suburb of Winneba, organised a seminar to sensitise residents of Sankor on the dangers of poor sanitary conditions in the community.
The Executive Director of Coast for Christ Ministries, Rev Dr. Enim spoke on the many diseases that are reported at their hospital, the Baptist Hospital in Sankor, which could be avoided if the community kept their surroundings clean. Rev Dr. Enim said that the number one enemy of the community was poor sanitation so they should take all measures to defeat it.
Three personnel of Shape Attitude Ghana attended a day’s training workshop for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and community based organisations (CBOs) organised by the Department of Social Welfare and Community Development of the Cape Coast Metropolitan area. The workshop with the theme “The role of NGOs in contemporary society and organisational branding” was held in Cape Coast on 13th September 2016 at the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly Hall.
In the spirit of collaboration with Shape Attitude Ghana, the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) included Shape Attitude in its 2016/2017 academic year Intensive Pre-academic Orientation Programme (IPOP) for fresh undergraduate, post graduate and international students.
Environmental Health Officers have been advised to intensify inter-sectoral approach and play lead coordinating role in their work. The advice was given by the founder of Shape attitude Ghana, Wonderful Baisie Ghartey, at the 7th Quadrennial Delegates Congress of the Ghana Environmental Health Officers’ Association (GEHOA) at the University of Cape Coast.