72 Students Honoured At President’s Independence Day Awards | Education

Nestlé Ghana Restricted, via its model MILO®, and in collaboration with the Ministry of Training has reaffirmed its dedication to recognizing educational achievement in Ghana via the President’s Independence Day Awards.
 
This 12 months, seventy-two (72) college students, together with eight (8) with particular instructional wants had been acknowledged for his or her excellent efficiency within the 2021 and 2022 Fundamental Training Certificates Examinations (BECE).
 
As a part of their award package deal, every scholar acquired a money prize, a laptop computer, and a 12 months’s-long provide of Nestlé merchandise in addition to a signed certificates by the President of the Republic of Ghana. These prizes had been the icing on the cake, following a collection of thrilling actions organized for the awardees, together with visits to Parliament Home and the Ministry of Training, a tour of the Nestlé manufacturing facility in Tema and an air-experience on the Air Pressure Base in Burma Camp.
 
The award ceremony, which was held on the Accra Worldwide Convention Heart, was attended by ministers of state, members of the diplomatic corps and conventional leaders.
 
In his tackle on the ceremony, His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo congratulated the award recipients and inspired them to proceed to work exhausting and to attempt for excellence of their chosen fields. He additionally thanked Nestlé for his or her continued assist of the awards ceremony and for his or her dedication to selling excellence amongst Ghanaian youth.
 
The Managing Director of Nestlé Ghana Restricted, Mr. Georgios Badaro, in his remarks highlighted that Nestlé’s longstanding partnership with the Presidency and the Ministry of Training acknowledges the achievements of younger Ghanaian abilities to inspire them to attempt for excellence in all their endeavours and turn out to be accountable future leaders within the nation.
 
The President’s Independence Day Awards was established in 1993. Since its inception, the award scheme has rewarded sensible younger college students between the ages of 14 and 19 from throughout areas of Ghana. The awardees are chosen based mostly on their distinctive educational performances within the Fundamental Training Certificates Examination (BECE). Nestlé’s beverage model MILO® has been a proud companion of the Awards for 16 years.
 
Apart the President’s Independence Day Awards, Nestlé MILO® champions different youth growth initiatives in sports activities such because the MILO® below – 13 Champion’s League and the MILO® Sports activities Growth Program which attain over 100,000 schoolchildren throughout the nation yearly.