CCAM awards winners for the Zonal Malaria Sketch Contest
16 June 2008
11 of June 2008, CCAM awarded winners for the Zonal Malaria Sketch Contest in an event that was jointly organised with the Cameroon Association of School Administrators (CASA) and the “Festival des Arts et du Theatre pour l’Enfant Africain” (FATEA). The occasion coincided with the 10th edition of FATEA that took place at the cinema-theatre hall of the Centre Culturel Français (CCF). The winners included schools with the best sketch on malaria. Al Haramain of Yaounde II emerged first, seconded by Genius Centre English Primary School, Nkolbisson (Yaounde VII) and Ecole Bilingue de l’Espérance (Yaounde V) third in position.
They were awarded prizes alongside other schools that participated in the competition. The winners took home prizes including certificates, treated insecticide mosquito nets (ITNs), pens, pencils and bracelets as well as bags and T-shirts.
It was amidst shouts of joy and applause to see smart boys and girls expressed their innate creativity and knowledge on malaria on the stage. They practically held the anxious audience spellbound with their beautiful plays and poetry that depict the fight against malaria as they understand it.
In fact, it was edutainment at its best, CCAM and her partners adopted to convey messages on malaria prevention to school children in their simplest form.
It all started early April when CCAM launched the competition in collaboration with CASA and FATEA. The literary contest was intended to mobilise about 500 schools through a sensitisation campaign aimed at fighting malaria in the 7 zones that make up the Yaounde metropolis. It took the form of a sketch to select winners to participate at the finals. First, there was a pool competition to select the winners to participate at the zonal competition sometime in May 2008 in various schools. The best from each zone were then to participate at the finals during the 10th edition of FATEA.
Prof. Rose Leke, the Executive Director of CCAM was overjoyed with level of commitment and sacrifice shown by the different partners. As she intimated, it is a journey that is just about to start and there is every reason to believe that the second edition of this contest will be of greater magnitude and fanfare.
