{"id":1201709,"date":"2022-09-10T07:01:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T07:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/10\/grand-finale-of-the-literacy-challenge-takes-place-today-gh%c2%a210000-up-for-grabs\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T07:01:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T07:01:39","slug":"grand-finale-of-the-literacy-challenge-takes-place-today-gh%c2%a210000-up-for-grabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/10\/grand-finale-of-the-literacy-challenge-takes-place-today-gh%c2%a210000-up-for-grabs\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand finale of &#8216;The Literacy Challenge&#8217; takes place today; GH\u00a210,000 up for grabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The search for the most outstanding \u2018all-round\u2019 Junior High School (JHS) student will come off later today, Saturday September 10, 2022 when all 10 finalists of <strong style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Citi FM<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">\u2018s \u2018The Literacy Challenge\u2019 compete in the grand finale. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">The stage is set at the the Alisa Hotel -North Ridge, Accra for an interesting contest to crown the champion who will bag the bragging rights and the coveted cash prize at stake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The contestants will partake in a classic quiz, after which the highest-scoring finalist will emerge as the winner.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-879875\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1719\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>All the contestants say they are prepared for the showdown with hopes of matching each other closely as they eye for the ultimate prize.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a live coverage of the finals on <strong>Citi TV<\/strong> as well all the station\u2019s social media platforms at 12 noon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-879873\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1671\"  \/><\/p>\n<h4><strong>What finalists are grabbing<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The winner of the quiz walks away with a mouthwatering GH\u00a210,000 as well as other prizes from the sponsors.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-879879\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/7-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1687\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The winner of the competition will also go home with a brand-new laptop from the Vodafone Ghana Foundation as well a year-long free internet access.<\/p>\n<p>That will not be all,\u00a0 the winner will be unveiled as the Vodafone Ghana Foundation\u2019s\u00a0<strong>National Instant Schools\u2018 Ambassador<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-879874\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1686\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>First runner up takes home a tablet and a free 6 months data subscription while the second runner up will receive a tablet and a free 3 months data subscription.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-879878\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/6-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1688\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>All other participants will be provided a month\u2019s data subscription.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-879876\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/4-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1703\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition, there will be other prizes such as customized school bags with learning materials for all 10 top finalists plus five exercise books each.<\/p>\n<p>These prizes are sponsored by the Vodafone Foundation as part of the Kindred Partners.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-879882\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/10-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The Literacy Challenge is a nationwide educational campaign that promotes literacy in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-879877\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/5-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>This year, participants were made to write on the topic:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou have been appointed as an advisor to the Minister of Communications and Digitalization. In not less than 600 words, you are required to write to the Minister, advising on how Ghana can deploy technology for poverty reduction and national development.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-879881\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/9-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1737\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The Literacy Challenge is an annual nationwide campaign powered by <strong>97.3 Citi FM<\/strong>, with support from\u00a0<strong>Citi TV<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-879880\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/8-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1676\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The 2022 edition is sponsored by Vodafone Ghana Foundation as part of the Kindred Partners, Prospectus Ghana Ltd, Dext Technology, Alife Soap and InvestCorp Asset Management Limited.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The search for the most outstanding \u2018all-round\u2019 Junior High School (JHS) student will come off later today, Saturday September 10, 2022 when all 10 finalists of Citi FM\u2018s \u2018The Literacy Challenge\u2019 compete in the grand finale. The stage is set at the the Alisa Hotel -North Ridge, Accra for an interesting contest to crown the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1201710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}