{"id":11058,"date":"2018-07-30T19:31:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T19:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=11058"},"modified":"2018-07-30T19:31:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T19:31:54","slug":"169-high-school-students-in-nkwanta-south-receive-be-a-girl-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=11058","title":{"rendered":"169 High School Students in Nkwanta South Receive \u2018Be A Girl\u2019 Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) initiative, \u2018Be A Girl\u2019 has awarded 169 top performing female students from three Senior High Schools in the Nkwanta South Municipal of the Volta Region in Ghana.<br \/>\nThe schools &#8211; Nkwanta Community Day Senior High School, Nkwanta Senior High and Kyabobo Girls Senior High school &#8211; had their top perfoming female students in academia, sports and leadership awarded at a special ceremony hosted at the Nkwanta Community Day SHS in Nkwanta.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11061\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Avance-Media-Be-A-Girl-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11063\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Avance-Media-Be-A-Girl-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11064\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Avance-Media-Be-A-Girl-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\nSpeaking at the event, the Managing Director of Avance Media, Prince Akpah, stated that the need for the \u2018Be A Girl\u2019 project was borne out of the unavailability of mentorship and motivational programmes in rural settings of Ghana.<br \/>\nHost headmaster, Mr Samuel H. K Avevor, commended Avance Media for the laudable initiative and charged them to spread the initiative across rural areas to enhance effective academic work in various schools.<br \/>\nThe girls were all presented with certificates certified by the heads of their respective institutions in a ceremony attended by over 1000 other students and dozens of guests including tutors.<br \/>\nAlso in attendance at the ceremony were the Nkwanta South Municipal Education Project Officer, Ms Jill Norris, Mr Samuel H. K Avevor, Felix Fate Korku Gborglah, Joseph Zorglo, Kyabobo Girls Senior High School Headmistress, Ms Venya Rebecca, PTA Chairmen and tutors from the various schools.<br \/>\n&#8216;Be A Girl&#8217; is a Corporate Social Responsibility initiative of leading rating &amp; PR firm, Avance Media focused on inspiring and empowering young girls whose dazzling academic and extra-curricular endeavours are recognised by their schools.<br \/>\nIt has so far awarded 500 girls across Ghana through this project that inspired thousands of young girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) initiative, \u2018Be A Girl\u2019 has awarded 169 top performing female students from three Senior High Schools in the Nkwanta South Municipal of the Volta Region in Ghana. The schools &#8211; Nkwanta Community Day Senior High School, Nkwanta Senior High and Kyabobo Girls Senior High school &#8211; had their top perfoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}