Win with the Young Community Shaper’s project!

NAMIBIA Breweries, Namibia Dairies, Namib Mills, Capricorn Sweets, The Namibian, John Meinert Printing, Plastic Packaging and Woermann Brock are promoting a Young Community Shaper project.

The project aims to promote excellence and is actively involved in uplifting and empowering their community. “The Young Community Shapers competition is an essay-based competition which identifies and acknowledges the important roles the youth play in the lives of their local communities,” the organisers said in a statement.”It has been a South African-based competition in the past, but this year entries are opened to Namibia.”Participants are asked to write an explanatory essay on how they feel they make a difference in their communities.Entries are nominated in the category of Community Achiever; these are community leaders who as individuals or in partnership with an organisation make significant contributions to developing their communities.The competition will take part in three towns: Windhoek, Swakopmund and Walvis Bay.There will be three regional winners competing in the finals.They will be transported to Windhoek and accommodated at the Windhoek Country Club Resort.The finalists will face a panel of judges, who will choose an overall winner.There are prizes worth more than N$40 000 to be won.The winner will receive N$20 000 in cash, the runner-up N$7 500, and third prize is N$5 000.Half the prize money is for personal use and the rest to assist with their community project.All finalists will receive computers for their schools.Entry forms will be published in The Namibian.”The Young Community Shapers competition is an essay-based competition which identifies and acknowledges the important roles the youth play in the lives of their local communities,” the organisers said in a statement.”It has been a South African-based competition in the past, but this year entries are opened to Namibia.”Participants are asked to write an explanatory essay on how they feel they make a difference in their communities.Entries are nominated in the category of Community Achiever; these are community leaders who as individuals or in partnership with an organisation make significant contributions to developing their communities.The competition will take part in three towns: Windhoek, Swakopmund and Walvis Bay.There will be three regional winners competing in the finals.They will be transported to Windhoek and accommodated at the Windhoek Country Club Resort. The finalists will face a panel of judges, who will choose an overall winner.There are prizes worth more than N$40 000 to be won.The winner will receive N$20 000 in cash, the runner-up N$7 500, and third prize is N$5 000.Half the prize money is for personal use and the rest to assist with their community project.All finalists will receive computers for their schools.Entry forms will be published in The Namibian.