Selected Senior High Schools (SHS) in Accra last Saturday participated in the “Civic Fest” education programme organised by the National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE).
The “Civic Fest” programme was to provide students with a forum to interact, converse, and express their opinions on matters pertinent to them in the general election scheduled for December.
It was organised in cooperation with the European Partnership for Democracy under its flagship initiative, Women and Youth in Democracy (WYDE), with the subject “Together we can build Ghana, so get involved.”
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This year’s programme was centred around four thematic areas — money in politics, violence and intemperate language, religious intolerance and misinformation, and disinformation and fake news.
Speaking on the significance of the “Civic Fest” programme, the Chairperson of the NCCE, Kathleen Addy said the goal is to set up civic education clubs in high schools across the country.
“Our ambition is to make sure that we have a civic education club in every school, and today, we are revamping some of our clubs that have lost momentum as a result of COVID-19, beginning with the 10 schools,” she said.
She added that it was part of the commission’s mandate to ensure that the December 7 elections were peaceful and successful to help maintain the country’s stability.
The participating schools were Achimota SHS, Presbyterian Boys’ SHS, Accra Girls SHS, Accra High SHS and St Thomas Aquinas SHS. The rest were Labone SHS, Forces SHS, Accra Academy SHS, St Mary’s SHS and Odogorno SHS.
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