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Youth Interactive Writer
Organisers of the much-publicised speech competition dubbed, ‘Possible Speech Contest’ have said that the stage is set for the challenge which will see 25 children and youth taking part.
Scheduled to take place on May 1 at Harare Girls High School, the event will be hosted by International Youth Fellowship (IYF) in partnership with the City of Harare.
The competition will have 13-20 year-olds participating with each speaker getting not more than four minutes on selected topics.
Some of the topics on the programme include: ‘My Dream’-(The world I hope for in 10 years), ‘Touching Moments — (Happy and unforgettable moments), ‘A person I admire’, ‘Mental health awareness’ and ‘The youth drug problem and the role I play’.
The deadline for participants to have submitted their scripts has passed and organisers confirmed that they already have some which are now being marked.
In an interview with IYF country director Kyeongchan Yang Simon from Korea, said the stage is set and already the participants are geared for the show.
He said registration was via social media, on Facebook.
“We have received more entries this year from various children and youths across Zimbabwe,” he said.
“The main reason for this competition is to empower them and equip them with knowledge on particular subjects as they will also give solutions according to their mindset, guided by us.
“This will also eradicate some of the social ills by our children in the community as they will be busy with what is important to their mental health.”
He said participants will walk away with certificates and hampers sponsored by their partners and corporates.
Mr Simon said officials from the Ministries of Education and Arts will be attending the event.
Meanwhile, the chairman and president of IYF Zimbabwe Professor James Shim has shared his solidarity message ahead of the competition. He encouraged the youngsters to be vigilant all the time.“People believe what they see and hear. They make judgements and decisions based on that. But when we don’t think deeply, we make wrong judgements and decisions,” he said.
“Because we often fall into illusions. Now, when the Japanese were looking at a map of Korea during the period of colonisation, they said: “It’s like a rabbit cowering”.
It was part of their brainwashing that you are weak and need protection of Japan. But if you look at it differently, it’s a strong tiger.”
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