Uyo Wins Coca-Cola, World Economic Forum Competition

The Coca-Cola Company and the World Economic Forum, WEF, have announced Uyo, Nigeria, winner of the 2016 ‘Shaping a Better Future Grant Challenge’.

The ‘Shaping a Better Future Grant Challenge’ is an exercise that takes a form of competition to award acceleration funding to sustain and expand initiatives led by members of the WEF’s Global Shapers Community .

According to Coca-Cola, the Uyo Hub of the Global Shapers Community has won the contest for 2016 and was therefore entitled to a $10,000 grant which would be used to advanced its education focused project ,”Education for Sustainable Development”.

Through the project, the Global Shapers seek to correct the negative educational impact on students caused by dilapidated school buildings, overcrowded class- rooms, inadequate instruction, insufficient teacher training, and shortage of textbooks. So far, the project has impacted no fewer than 24,000 lives in Nigeria.

A member of the Uyo Global Shapers Hub in Akwa Ibom State, Mmanti Umoh pointed out that it was necessary to eliminate barriers to quality education in the state and called on stake holders to join in the cause.

President of Coca-Cola West Africa, Peter Njonjo, said, “It is exciting to see young people demonstrate active interest and resourcefulness in developing innovative solutions for many of the challenges faced by our communities in Africa. We are glad to be a key player in social entrepreneurship and we are proud to have two Global Shapers Hub, from Ghana and Uyo as winners of the 2016 contest”.