BASWA LE MEETSE

The Baswa le Meetse (Youth in Water) Award aims to recognise the achievements of our youth in their efforts of educating our society about integrated water resource management, promoting water use efficiency as well as health and hygiene. The award precedes with competitions from district, province and national levels. The Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry presents the award to learners who developed outstanding projects annually.

Aims and Objectives

• To increase awareness of the general public through learners about integrated water resource management and impart knowledge and water management skills to enable the communities to:
  • protect natural resources
  • manage water resources efficiently
  • address issues related to water and sanitation
• To stimulate the interest of the youth in water and sanitation and encourage them to pursue careers in water resource management and sanitation
• To promote health and hygiene and
• To increase awareness about invasive alien species and the general promotion of the protection of natural resources.

Who can participate?

Grade 6 learners only

Educators, Learning Area Co-ordinators and Facilitators of Arts and Culture are requested to encourage the learners to participate in this competition. 

Note: Provincial winners are selected during the same school year. These provincial winners will however be adjudicated at national level during the new school year. (For example, if you are selected as a provincial winner during 2004, you will only be adjudicated at national level during 2005).

Categories

Participation is encouraged in the following categories:

• Traditional music
• Poetic and Praise singing
• Drama
• Poster

Theme

"Washing of Hands, Use and Care of Sanitation Facilities for Health Life"

How can you be involved?

• Complete the registration form
• Applications can be posted, faxed or hand delivered to the nearest office of the Department of Education (Learning Area Facilitators/Co-ordinators of Arts & Culture) or the regional offices of DWAF
• Call the nearest office of DWAF for more information
• Receipt of application forms will be acknowledged.

Support for interested Schools/Learners

Upon confirmation of participation through receipt of registration forms, the Department will ensure that support, guidance and assistance is provided to interested learners. Guidelines will be circulated to the educators from the participating schools.

Judging criteria

Applications will be judged according to the following criteria

• Subject knowledge
• Relevance
• Originality
• Creativity
• Presentation.

Selection of process

An adjudication panel, which is composed of representatives from various institutions, will judge the project based on the above criteria. The selection process takes place at district, provincial and national level.