About Write With Smiles
Major failures in examinations is not the fact that students don't know the responses to questions. They turn to adapt bad practices towards their examinations, and that goes a long way, affecting the output of their examinations. This practices can be before, during and sometimes after the exams. To curb that follies, Smile Agenda Foundation brought the project Write With Smiles. The purpose is to address issues examinations candidates might be facing while they prepare for their exams and the most likely ones to face during and after the examination. For a start, the target group for this project is students sitting for the Basic Education Certificate Examination ( BECE ) usually from a proposed deprived school across the country. At this project, they are equipped with all the tips they need pre, during, and post the BECE. Together with materials they'll need in the examination that includes mathematical Sets, pens, etc.
Goal & Objective
The goal of Write With Smiles (WWS) is to bridge the gap between the performance of BECE candidates in urban areas and those in the rural areas. Since those in the deprived areas have limited access to some of these resources hence the vast difference in performance of both candidate A ( from rural area ) and candidate B ( from urban community)
To achieve this, Smile Agenda Foundation selects schools in deprived communities that are closer and merge them together for a lecture. This happens once a year. This has been happening since 2018 when it first had its guinea pig project. Apart from the COVID-19 period (2019 & 2020).
Case Study
In 2023, Project Write With Smiles was sent to ten basic schools in the Upper Manya Krobo District in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
These candidates were merged together at the Asesewa Assemblies Of God Church on the 26th of May, 2023. It is made up of one hundred and sixteen ( 116 ) Basic Education Certificate Examination Candidates from Kwabea Teryi Anglican Basic School, Kwabea R/C Basic School, Akohia Anglican Basic School, Batorkope D/A Basic School, Asesewa Community A D/A Basic, Asesewa Anglican Basic School, Asesewa D/A Basic School, Sawa Yiti Basic School and Brepaw Kpeti Basic School. At the project, the speaker, Mr Numo Theophilus Adinortey, took them through the necessary guidelines they needed for the examination. He did mention that " when you're studying and you realise you're tired, get a nap."
The outcome of the BECE results after the project was impressive, said Mr. Djaba Headteacher of Kwabea R/C Basic Schoola
Another case study is the median Write With Smiles project, which benefited BECE candidates of Pokuase Methodist Junior High School. The teachers were glad due to the encouraging performance of their students that year.