Clean Africa, a non-governmental organisation focused on improving sanitation, has commenced an initiative to instill environmentally sustainable behaviour in schoolage children.
The programme involves the use of quizzes /competitions to ascertain the knowledge of pupils on environmentally sound behaviours both in school and at home.
The first in the series of such competitions has been organised at the Brain Bird Academy School in the Ga South Municipality in the Greater Accra Region.
Some of the competing schools were Great Pass School, Christian Way School and Humble Way Mission School and the Brain Bird Academy.
The competing schools were quizzed on how schoolchildren and young people could contribute to a cleaner and a more sustainable environment.
The host school, Brain Bird Academy, which won the quiz pledged its commitment to serve as ambassadors for behavioural change, especially among their mates in the school.
The school received waste management equipment worth GHc150.
The Proprietor of the Brain Bird Academy, Madam Ellen Nti, presenting the award to her school, said the campaign targeted school pupils via instructions from their teachers because the medium had been tested as a concrete means of ensuring behavioural change.
He said children of today were going to be the leaders of tomorrow, and that a programme to improve on environmental cleanliness would work best if it targeted them.
She said the basic objective for Clean Africa was to challenge and empower students and young people to play a key role in reducing the impact of climate change by developing basic hygienic and sanitation procedures.
According to her, the initiative was going to be replicated in other schools across the country based on the successes chalked up in the initial project.
She called on corporate organisations with interest in sanitation to support their initiative with resources to ensure that it contributed effectively to the betterment of society.
The idea behind Clean Africa was hatched by a four-member team from Ghana, Kenya and Uganda after further studies in Germany in 2006.
The commencement of its operations in Ghana was in 2006 with the first chapter established in Wa, the Upper West regional capital.
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