World Vision competition encourages education and culture

Dozens of school students took part in an exciting educational competition organized by World Vision in southern Lebanon. The activity was not only benefiting the children with information, it was also fun and entertaining as well.

Lots of enthusiasm and speedy seventh-grade minds were involved in order to give the right answer at the right time. Each right correct answer was celebrated by the three-member teams as they represented their school in the, “You are First” competition, organized by World Vision in the Marjeyoun area in southern Lebanon. The students, from eight public and private schools, competed by answering questions about general knowledge, history, geography, science, languages and children’s’ rights.

 “I really liked the competition, because I have learned lots of new things,” says 13-year-old boy Ali, one of the participants in the event. “I would love to take part in the competition if it will take place [again] next year,” he adds.

“The competition aims at shedding the light on the educational activities that World Vision is organizing in the area, while encouraging students to study by through spreading [a] competitive spirit among them,” says Rania Said, education project coordinator in Marjeyoun office. “World Vision seeks to raise students’ educational levels through its projects and through partnering with communities to find the best solutions to educational problems in the area,” she adds. 

World Vision organized this competition in partnership with the education committee in Marjeyoun. The latter is composed of nine members who are committed to raise students’ educational and cultural levels in the area through projects and activities where all community members can take part.

“The objective of today’s activity is to prompt students [to] pay attention to their studies in an era where means of entertainment for children abound,” says Eid Farah, member of the education committee. “Not only [do] we care about education, we also care about students having culture. For this [reason], we have included diversified general knowledge questions in the competition,” he adds.

“I liked the competition,” says Diana, a 12-year-old girl. “I took part [in it] because there were students from several schools and because my friends, parents and school teachers came here to encourage me,” she says. “Some questions were easy, and others were hard. There were topics I did not know about before today. It is like I acquired new information, and that makes me happy,” she adds.