14-year-old Marilyn Nanayaa Gyan has been crowned the winner of Citi FM’s 2014 Write Away Contest.
She takes home GHC 5,000, a certificate of
participation, a medal, a hamper from Standard Chartered Bank and five
boxes of indomie.
Marilyn attends the Falsyd Foundation School in Accra.
Vanessa Inkoom came second while Nana Akua Aboraa Owusu Ababio Nhyira placed third.
Vanessa will take home GHC 3,000, a medal, a
hamper from Standard Chartered Bank and five boxes of Indomie while
Nana Akua takes home GHC 1,000, a medal, a hamper from Standard
Chartered Bank and five boxes of Indomie.
Vanessa Inkoom was second in the Citi FM Write Away Contest 2014
Mr. Tsegah praised Citi FM for demonstrating consistency “to drive change.”
“We are not harnessing the potential of our children,” he lamented.
Nana Akua Aboraa Owusu Ababio Nhyira was third in the Citi FM Write Away Contest 2014
Educationist
and Chief Examiner of the contest Annis Hafar, speaking at the event
has charged the Education Minister, through her representative at the
event to “erect billboards across the country to encourage children to
always read and write.”
Special awards were also given to deserving
contestants while the rest of the participants in the top 20 went home
with five boxes of indomie and a certificate of participation.
The other top ten finalists in the 2014 Citi FM Write Away Contest
Participants in this year’s contest were
made to write their own short stories, with their own unique characters
which ended with the idiom: ‘A bird in hand is worth two in a bush.’
The Write-Away Contest is
sponsored by Standard Chartered Bank and Indomie Instant Noodles. The
contest is supported by Finlite and the Volta River Authority (VRA) and powered by 97.3 Citi FM.
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