Congo/School emulation: Brazzaville's fourteen best students receive awards

On November 30, the Fondation Privat-Frédéric-Ndeké presented awards to the fourteen best Brazzaville pupils from preparatory classes to those who passed their state exams for the 2023-2024 school year.

The lucky recipients were awarded prizes at the^2nd edition of the school emulation competition, organized in the presence of the Prefect of Brazzaville, Pierre Cébert Ibocko-Onanga. The winners obtained averages ranging from 9.33 to 17.94 in the Brazzaville school department. Among other things, they received school kits, honorary diplomas and computers for the best students admitted to the brevet d'études du premier cycle and the baccalauréat. "We would like to thank the President of the Privat-Frédéric-Ndeké Foundation for honouring us today. Indeed, this distinction is a good thing, it encourages us to make more efforts for this year 2024-2025 in order to still benefit from his attention. We assure you that we will redouble our efforts to be better," stressed the winners' representative.

Alain Claude Dangouama, Departmental Director of Pre-school, Primary and Secondary Education and Literacy, praised the solidarity shown by the Privilege Foundation.lan de solidarité de la fondation Privat- Frédéric-Ndeké consistant à gratifier les meilleurs élèves ainsi que les candidats aux examens d'Etat. "Sharing may seem like a trivial gesture. But sharing school kits with the best pupils from preparatory classes to those who have passed their state exams in front of witnesses is a contribution to the training of citizens of a new type who will have to banish hatred, intolerance and injustice. Citizens of a new type who will have at heart only the love of our country, one and indivisible", he indicated.

According to him, through this ritual, this non-governmental organization inspires other students to redouble their efforts to be among the best. It's also a way of unintentionally cultivating knowledge, love of neighbor and living together. "To the parents of the prizewinners, the education of our children is everyone's business. It's up to you to give them the attention and support they need to succeed at school, which is the key to our country's economic take-off. As for the prize-winners, I ask you to be assiduous and attentive in class so as to always achieve better results", he advised.

The president of the eponymous foundation assured the Brazzaville departmental directorate of general education and the prizewinners of his readiness to support the best. "You can count on our foundation to try to make our modest contribution. The Privat-Frédéric-Ndeké Foundation is only playing its part, because the State alone will not be able to cope with all the problems facing our education system. For the school and academic year 2024-2025, you are our pupils, you are our students", reiterated Privat Frédéric Ndeké.

Launched over a decade ago in arrondissement 6, Talangaï, the Privat-Frédéric Ndeké Foundation's school emulations were extended over time to other arrondissements of Brazzaville, before taking on a departmental character last year. The aim is to encourage work well done and excellence, so that students become the country's best managers of tomorrow. The initiator does not rule out the possibility of making it a national competition. "Emulation at district level has strengthened our resolve to organize a departmental competition. Nothing is ruled out, it's in our plans, but what we do at departmental level must first take shape to enable us to compete at national level. When we were organizing partial emulations, we had already been to Ollombo, in the Plateaux department, to organize an emulation from that department. Several students won prizes on that occasion", he concluded.

Source: www.adiac-congo.com/