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| Mr.Odonkor, Praye Tietia and other speakers of the event. |
Infinity 970, a non governmental organization has organised its 2nd youth variety show for children of Osu and its environs to climax this year’s Homowo festival celebration with a call on pupils to make reading a life time habit.
Dubbed on “Read for life” the programme seeks to engage children in the Homowo festival celebration as well as sharpening their reading, writing and communication skills.
The show which aimed at unearthing talents among children saw comedians, health workers and security agency personnel who educated the children on the need of reading and its importance in handling fire outbreaks in emergency situations.
The children who made it to the second phase of the competition took part in reading, talent exhibition, football and dancing competition at the event.
The winners of the English and Ga reading competition were Marcus Aveh, Rose Ntsiful, Annang Oseikir, Abigail Neequaye, Stephen Ayettey, Ewoenam Fedieley, Murphy Alo, Philipa Agyapong, Rebecca Quarshie and Sylvia Agyemang.
Others who won the dancing and drawing competition were Samuel Sackitey, Ruth Ahwireng, Charles Ekow Sann, Patricia Brown and Godfred Addo.
Each winner was presented with a pack of exercise book, a box of pen and reading materials to motivate them and others to hone the act of reading as well as improving on their talents.
The ace musician, Mr. Stephen Kojo Fiawoo, knew in the music industry as “Praye Tietia,” speaking at the event conscientise the children on the need of reading in building better future career.
According to him, reading was prerequisite for life and without it no one would be able to compete in today’s world.
The multiple award winning musician said reading broadens the knowledge level and it gives people vital keys to unlock some doors of opportunities relevant for future goals.
Using himself as an example, he opined that reading and education had a vital key to play in his music and production career adding that for musicians to have rich lyrical content depended on the materials they were exposed to.
“If it had not been reading and education to even read and write good lyrics will be a problem therefore I will say education and reading has helped me to be a great musician as I am today,” he added.
Praye Tietia advised the children to embrace their books to boost their communication skills and the way they think for them to fully develop their personalities.
The Osu Doku Circuit Supervisor of education, Ms. Georgina Winifred Rabbles, who was also a judge at the competition, noted that most of the short comings of the participants were their inability to pronounce words/vocabulary accurately.
“As a judge for today’s competition the problem the children mainly encountered were pronunciation, punctuations and mentioning the title of their stories. The major problem was the phonetics which made most of the participants lost marks,” she noted.
For pupils to be able to pronounce words correctly, she tasked teachers to start teaching children phonetics right from kindergarten to help them excel in pronunciation which in many ways would be great armour in improving their reading skills.
Mr. Victor Odonkor, the programme Coordinator of Infinity 970, pledged the organization’s outfit support to encourage reading in spicing up literature as well as giving children an incentive to open a book to help drive education in Ghana forward.
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