AMMREN Ghana Chapter Coordinator wins awards

Mrs Clare Banoeng-Yakubo, an Assistant Chief Editor of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, and Coordinator of the AMMREN Ghana Chapter has won the best news feature award of the Ghana Journalists Association for 2006. Her story was on “Night School in Sodom and Gomorrah” won her the award. It is a story about an Italian Catholic Father, Arcadio Sicher, who is giving hope and opportunity to thousands of squatters on the enclave of Sodom and Gomorrah, through literacy. Sodom and Gomorrah is a slum area in Accra with a population of about 25 thousand. The Catholic Father operates a night school in the area, which has whipped up enthusiasm to learn, among both young and old. The people who work during the day and go to school in the night said they ‘had been lost but have now been found’. Another story on Contraceptive usage in Ghana, has also won Clare an award from the United Nations for promoting the Millennium Development Goals in Africa in 2006. Clare was also a winner for News feature story on unsafe abortion, 2006, by Population Reference Bureau (PRB), Washington, D.C. AMMREN congratulates her.

 

Mrs. Clare Banoeng-Yakubo, hands over her award to Mrs. Charity Binka, AMMREN Executive Secretary, while other members look on.