Take keen interest in reading – Mr Afful
The Managing Director (MD) of the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL), Mr Ato Afful, has challenged schoolchildren to take keen interest in reading to achieve the purpose of their lives.
Addressing over 150 schoolchildren from selected schools in the Ho municipality in the Volta Region, Mr Afful advised the children to “apply yourselves every day to reading. At least half an hour and you will begin to enjoy reading”.
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The MD was speaking at a Junior Graphic essay writing seminar last Saturday in Ho.
Competition
The seminar, which drew selected schoolchildren from the Holy Spirit Cathedral Preparatory, Springs Preparatory School, Rising Star Academy and Sonrise Christian Preparatory, was to prepare the students for an upcoming Junior Graphic national essay competition.
Mr Afful said he expected the winner of this year’s competition to emerge from the Volta Region and, therefore, must take keen interest in the contest.
Junior Graphic
He said in life, to be able to achieve something, one had to commit to something and that was “what Junior Graphic is giving you”.
According to him, the children should build on the privilege they had to go to school for their own future.
“You do not need to be rich or need to come from a humble background to get a copy of Junior Graphic to read.
“Your school is subscribing and so, you can get them at the library to read. Enter that competition and enter your name in the sky,” Mr Afful said.
Reading habit
The Editor of the Junior Graphic, Ms Kate Baaba Hudson, urged teachers and parents to help children to enjoy the habit of reading because it had direct consequences on their performance in school and their aspirations in life.
According to her, “these days, schoolchildren do not like to read. Reading has become a problem because they spend all their time on the Internet”, a situation she observed affected their learning in school.
She said the cultivation of reading habits made a student better and, therefore, urged the teachers to support children build this capacity.
“And this is what the Junior Graphic, a youth paper of the GCGL, seeks to achieve. It is to improve your reading habit because the more you read the newspaper, the better you become as students,” she indicated.
Ms Hudson tasked the students to take the competition very seriously and work towards winning the contest because winners would have attractive packages, including cash prizes.