Only girls were able to make it to the Grande Finale – Battle of Champions – in the on-going School Sanitation Solutions (Triple S) Challenge organized by World Vision Ghana and Kings Hall Media Limited. They are:

Naziru Mawadatu from the Damongo Girls Experimental JHS in the Savannah Region (JHS 1).

Annabel Ankonu from the Suhum MA Experimental School in the Eastern Region (P6)

Emmanuella Naa Darkua Vanderpuye from the John Wesley Basic School in Accra (JHS 2)

Gladstone Yinnaam Nachinab from the Étoile Royale Educational Centre in Tamale (JHS 1)

In the 2020 edition, one boy managed to sail through to that level but this time round, there is no boy.

In the second round of the Challenge – the Masters Encounter – where the ten best candidates who submitted the ten best essays in the first round are selected to to a verbal defense, as well as be tested on their general knowledge on sanitation, intelligence, eloquence and confidence, girls still dominated with seven against three.

The girls will contest the final (Battle of Champions) on live TV (GTV What Do You Know) programme at Mid-day of 19th September. The overall winner will be officially designated as the next Child Sanitation Diplomat.

She will succeed Neriah Tetteh of the Silicon Valley International School in Accra, who has reigned for one year and who has been supported by Kings Hall Media, World Vision Ghana and the GAMA Sanitation and Water Project to implement a one-year sanitation campaign project.

The next Child Sanitation Diplomat will equally be supported to design and implement a one-year campaign.

The Triple S Challenge has been designed to provide a platform for children to participate in then search for sustainable solution to Ghana’s sanitation challenges. The campaign also has an objective to catch the children while they are still young and groom them to become peer influencers and advocates for better sanitation behaviours and policies.

Launched in 2019 through a partnership arrangement between Kings Hall Media Limited and World Vision Ghana, the first edition was successfully organized in 2020. The campaign has also been remarkably supported by the GAMA Sanitation and Water Project.