Awudome Senior High School (AWUSCO) at Tsito, emerged winners at the Volta Region Project Citizen Showcase held in Ho.

The school’s topic was “the Menace of Plastic Waste in the Ho Municipality.”

AWUSCO won with 79 points with Sonrise Senior High School coming second with 70 points, whilst Star Senior High School came third with 69 points. The two are privately owned schools in Ho.

Other participating schools which placed fourth, fifth and sixth respectively were Sokode Technical Senior High School, Mawuli Senior High School and Mawuko Girls Senior High School.

Awudome Senior High School would represent Volta Region at the national event.

The Showcase was organised by the National Commission for Civic Education, with funding from the Hanns Seidel Foundation Ghana (HSF).

Project Citizen Ghana seeks to equip students with skills to conduct research, tolerate divergent views, team work and public speaking.

It also gives them the opportunity to try formulating policies that could help solve problems in their communities and also identify and lobby agencies to adopt those policies.

Mr. Augustine Bosrotsi, Deputy Volta Regional Director of NCCE, told the students that they had the right to make suggestions to governments on ways to tackle problems in their communities.

He said the Project aims at preparing them to be effective and efficient citizens in future.

Mr. Bosrotsi said the knowledge and experience they acquire should contribute to improving lives in their communities and in their academic pursuits.

Mr. Dickson Pi-Bansah, Head of Human Resources, Ho Municipal Directorate of the Ghana Education Service (GES), who represented the Municipal Director, said everyone had a stake in making education accessible to all and also ensuring that students pass their examinations well.

Mrs. Dora Hammond, Project Coordinator of Project Citizen Ghana asked the students to take their studies serious as they did on the Project.

Mrs. Thywill Eyra Kpe, of the Volta Regional Directorate of the Department of Women, who chaired the function, expressed worry that many students use the internet to perpetrate fraud and view pornographic materials rather than for research to build their capacities.