Two students of Queen of Rosary Secondary School, QRC, Onitsha, Chidimma Okoye and Basilia Elochukwu, have emerged the first and second winners of the grand finale of the 2022/2023, OCI Foundation’s Anambra Health Campaign Schools Challenge, AHCSC.
The health quiz competition, which is for all public secondary schools in Anambra State, was organized by OCI Foundation in conjunction with Post Primary Schools Service Commission, PPSSC, Awka.
This year’s competition, which is the second edition, held at Igwebuike Grammar School, Awka, attracted students, teachers and officials of OCI Foundation.
The Anambra Arm Our Youths Health Campaign Schools Challenge is a statewide quiz competition designed to enhance engagements with the OCI Foundation’s Arm Our Youths, ArOY, Health Campaign, an anti-cancer programme endorsed by the USA’s Harvard Medical School and World Health Organization.
With the first edition held in 2021/2022, the AHCSC is expected to become a national campaign to ensure that no one is left behind in any part of Nigeria.
The contestants were drawn from the six educational zones of Anambra State, while the moderator is the Principal of Redeemer’s High School, Okpuno, Mrs. Ada Adibe.
In his keynote address, the President and founder of OCI Foundation, Dr Chris Ifediora, said the day marked another important milestone in consolidating the history that the foundation made over three years ago which delivered on their promise to ensure that teachings against breast and cervical cancers were introduced into the regular curriculum of all senior secondary schools in Anambra State.
Dr Ifediora, represented by Barrister Vivian Obinwa, explained that OCI Foundation believes that all senior secondary schools in Anambra State, should be part of the ArOY Health Campaign urging the PPSSC, Education commissioner and Governor Chukwuma Soludo to help get it done.
The chairman on the occasion, Lady Joy Ulasi, said what the students have learned in the course of the competition, if stepped down, will reduce the cancer scourge in the society even as she advised parents to discipline their children against getting involved in premarital sexual activities.
For the winner, Miss Okoye, her take home lesson from the competition is that hard work pays while Miss Elochukwu, noted that the competition gave her access to information about cancers that she was not privy to before now.
The winner of the first edition of the quiz, Miss Treasure Godwin, who is now an undergraduate of Applied Microbiology, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, said OCI Foundation has been an encouragement to her and assured the contestants that self-encouragement is the best.
In a vote of thanks, the Domestic Liaison Officer of the Foundation, Mrs. Imelda Emeka, recalled the genesis of the foundation, the challenges encountered, and appreciated God and all that contributed in making the event a success.
Presentation of prizes, welcome song and dance drama, formed highpoints of the competition.
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