Adjumani | This year’s district secondary school debate championship has 15 schools registered to compete. The event will take place on July 13, 2024.
The Madi Debate Society organised the secondary school debate championship, which is sponsored by Friends of Zoka.
It will be held under the theme “Deepening the climate change agenda among youth.”
Bosco Tiondi, a member of the Madi Debate Society, stated that the Society is pleased to host the second annual secondary school debate championship to encourage young people to consider the current climate crisis, which has become a global issue.
“We hope to instil the spirit of constructive engagement, and conversation and also deepen negotiations and also spark climate action among the young people, because this is one of the most critical matters that is affecting our planet, our country,” Tiondi said
“We want to strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate change among young people, and also integrate the knowledge of climate change measures, policies and planning and also build their knowledge capacity, and climate change generally, among young people,” he added.
Gloria Assisi, a Madi Debate Society member, believes that the approach is intended to encourage young people to take action on environmental issues and climate change.
“And when he talks about a secondary level, of course, that is where the youth also come from. So we’ve seen that the government has been doing a lot to ensure that issues on climate change are addressed. We want to engage the youths to be critical thinkers and analyze issues of environmental protection and climate change.”
The team leader of Friends of Zoka, Williams Amanzuru Leslie, said they’re sponsoring the annual debate for the next five years as the debate relates to the goals of Friends of Zoka.
He stated that the Friends of Zoka is founded on conservation, research, advocacy, environmental protection, and restoration.
“Climate and environmental concerns are a crisis, but also, by this kind of debate, we are trying to create a space where civic competence for young people is uplifted, because this gives them a base of the knowledge base of research, but also a place to invest into what they’re going to talk about,” Amanzuru said.
“At Friends of Zoka we are always happy to coordinate and make sure that we keep supporting civil society organisations but also community groups that come up with innovative ideas on how they can change lives of our society that is the biggest reason as to why we are sponsoring this debate,” Amanzuru added
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