{"id":438079,"date":"2017-11-17T04:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T04:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/17\/unic-accra-lauds-17-year-old-who-emerged-winner-of-2017-sdgs-photo-contest\/"},"modified":"2017-11-17T04:00:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T04:00:28","slug":"unic-accra-lauds-17-year-old-who-emerged-winner-of-2017-sdgs-photo-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/17\/unic-accra-lauds-17-year-old-who-emerged-winner-of-2017-sdgs-photo-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"UNIC Accra lauds 17-year-old who emerged winner of 2017 SDGs Photo Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Thursday, 16 November 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Joseph Kobla Wemakor<\/p>\n<p>2017-11-16<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/59211368.295.jpg\" alt=\"Unic Award\" title=\"Unic Award\" width=\"295\" height=\"246\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Paa Kwesi Williams being presented the certificate<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151057539937222\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151057539937222\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1510891228_538_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The United Nations Information Centre (UNIC Accra) has held a press conference in honour of Matthew Paa Kwesi Williams a 17-year-old Ghanaian student who emerged winner of the award of excellence in the just ended SDGs Student Photo Contest held in Japan, Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old, Matthew Paa Kwesi, an International Baccalaureate Diploma student of Morgan International Community School at Gomoa Manso in the Central Region, was adjudged one of the winners of award of excellence for the best image &#8220;the struggle of childhood&#8221; which highlighted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press briefing in Accra on Tuesday, November 14, the National Information Officer of UNIC Accra, Ms. Cynthia Prah lauded the winner, Matthew Paa Kwesi Williams for putting Ghana on the global map with the best image which sheds light on the SDGs 1<\/p>\n<p>She hinted her outfit is also considering the idea of organizing similar event in the future but on the national level and intends to partner with its sister organization, UNIC Tokyo with support of other sponsors to promote the SDGs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe SDGs are our baby, we need to ensure that Ghana follows through and by the end of 2030 we would\u2019ve achieved a lot if not at all, ensure that no one is left behind\u201d. She stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Prah also used the occasion to appeal to institutions and philanthropists in the country to come on board and support the winner in his bid to roll out a project to address the challenges of poverty, an attribute of SDGs 1 being Ghana\u2019s major problem.<\/p>\n<p>For her part, Head of Morgan International Community School, Ms. Felicia Sackey was optimistic the key principles embraced by the school which hinges on innovation, creativity and critical thinking coupled with many words of encouragement and mentorship from teachers have contributed to the success story of the 17-year-old Matthew Paa Kwesi Williams in obtaining the recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew stood tall among his competitors with the best photo captioned \u201cNo one has it easy in life\u201d and a title \u201cthe struggle of childhood\u201d that won him the award of excellence. His image sheds light on the plight of a poor girl child whose determination to keep her poverty stricken, filthy environment clean without wearing a slippers or sandals. In his titled story, Paa Kwesi narrates he derived inspiration in taking the picture realizing that the child was covered in dirt and had no sandals or slippers to wear, describing the passion she worked with as \u201csimply amazing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat caught my eye was the fact that even though her broomstick got disbanded, she got down on her bare knees to pick up the broomsticks so she could continue working\u201d \u201cWith help from United Nations Social Development Goals, I believe the lives of such children can be improved and their burden lessened\u201d. He noted.<\/p>\n<p>He took home a whooping JPY20, 000, a Nikon digital camera, 2 photobooks including a certificate of recognition for his prize.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew who aspires to be a Business economist and entrepreneur in the near future believes the world should be a better place for all humans devoid of poverty and children should be made to enjoy better and equal opportunities to live a life of dignity.<\/p>\n<p>With determination to see his country achieve the SDGs 1(No Poverty), the talented winner has hinted of creating an online platform (\u201cPixel Action\u201d), a project he\u2019ll be embarking upon to promote the agenda 2030 in his own small way.<\/p>\n<p>The platform will serve as a store where images of both achieved and yet-to-be- achieved SDGs will be kept for public consumption.<\/p>\n<p>The SDGs photo contest is the first of its kind which was launched in Japan last year, amassing a total of 624 entries from 47 countries, including Ghana. <\/p>\n<p>The competition was initiated by UNIC Tokyo and Sophia University with special cooperation from Getty images, Japan and endorsed by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Global Compact Network, Japanese International Cooperation Japan (JICA), Japan Civil Society Network on SDGs.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 55 updated by: 55 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment of Thursday, 16 November 2017 Source: Joseph Kobla Wemakor 2017-11-16 Paa Kwesi Williams being presented the certificate The United Nations Information Centre (UNIC Accra) has held a press conference in honour of Matthew Paa Kwesi Williams a 17-year-old Ghanaian student who emerged winner of the award of excellence in the just ended SDGs Student [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":438080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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