Three young people from Australia, Mexico and Ghana were adjudged winners of the sixth edition of the World Bank 2009 International Essay Competition.
The competition asked young essay contestants to answer two questions:
- How does climate change affect you? And
- How can you tackle climate change through youth-led solutions?
The first prize winner was
Sophie Bathurst of Australia for ‘
Blueprint for Green Schools’, 2nd Prize:
Guillermo Recio of Mexico for ‘
The Repercussions of Climate Change on the Indigenous Rarámuri’ and the 3rd Prize:
Kwasi Gyeabour of GhanaGreening the Ghanaian Youth’.
The 2009 Essay Competition attracted 2,469 submissions from over 150 countries (90% of submissions came from developing countries) with 56 submissions coming from Ghana.
Winners received awards from Justin Lin, World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President; Young Geol Lee, Vice Minister of Strategy and Finance of Korea; Didrik Tonseth, Ambassador of Norway in Korea, and Oh-Seok Hyun, President, Korea Development Institute at the 20th Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE conference) in Seoul, South Korea on 24th June
2009.
Jefferson Agbai also from Ghana came second in 2006 with topic ‘Empowering the Ghanaian Youth Towards Financial Independence’.
The ABCDE conference is one of the world's best known series of conferences on development for many of the world's development thinkers to present their ideas.
The Essay Competition 2009 is organized by the World Bank and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in partnership with: Ministry of Strategy and Finance of the Republic of Korea, Cairo University Egypt, Jadavpur University India,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Mexico, Africa Leadership Forum, AIESEC International, European Students' Forum (AEGEE), The Glocal Forum, Junior Achievement Worldwide, Conciencia Association Argentina, Researchers Alliance for Development (RAD).
Source: World Bank Ghana Office
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