World Bank is launching a poetry competition to showcase the importance of education and access to quality learning for young people in Western and Central Africa. Share a creative, inspiring, and artistic 1-minute video of yourself reciting your original poem for the chance to get featured on our social media channels. Through poetry, show and tell us how can education unlock you potential and or impact your community.
WORTH
- The top five final selected entries will be published on select social media platforms of the World Bank and awarded a prize.
ELIGIBILITY
- Open to citizens of Western & Central African member country (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Ghana, Equatorial, Liberia, Guinea, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, Togo)
- Applicant must be between 18 and 35 years old
- Diverse, untraditional, and unheard voices are strongly encouraged to enter the competition.
- Bank staff including its consultants and their immediate family members, contractors and their employees are not eligible to participate
- Upload a 1-minute video of yourself reciting your original poem.
- Entry poem should answer the question: how education can unlock your potential and/or impact your community.
- Make sure the video is not shaky, the camera must be still while filming.
- Ensure your video is artistic, original, and creative. Videos must not have been previously published or used for a commercial purpose such as private sale or used in monetised platforms. All content to be used must be original, including any music.
- Applicants are advised not to add any graphics, text, or captions.
- Entry poem can also be performed in sign language.
- Film in landscape mode.
DEADLINE: July 20, 2022
To apply and for more information visit here
