By Jones Gadama
The Golden Peacock Hotel in Blantyre has partnered with the Center for Governance and Leadership (CEGOL) to host the inaugural Blantyre City Public Speaking Competition for Secondary Schools.
The competition, themed “Speak, Keep and Act the Vision of Malawi,” aims to promote public speaking skills among secondary school students.
According to Khumbo Gwede, senior marketing officer at Golden Peacock Hotel, the hotel values education development and has offered its venue as part of its corporate social responsibility initiatives.
“We placed education development as one of the priority areas under corporate social responsibility,” Gwede said.
CEGOL team leader Chimwemwe Kaonga described the partnership as a milestone in ensuring the competition’s success.
The competition will be jointly implemented by Story Lab, an outreach program in the department of media and journalism at the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (MUBAS).
Thirty randomly selected government, private, and mission secondary schools will participate in the contest.
“We sent invitations and schools are still sending confirmations of names of contestants,” Kaonga said, adding that, “In case others fail to submit, we will engage other schools that have not been initially considered.”
The competition is expected to promote public speaking skills, confidence, and leadership among secondary school students in Blantyre.
