Beauty Queens Organize Educational Tour for Tema Schoolchildren.

Tema: Miss Centre of the World, in collaboration with Miss Tourism Ghana 2024, has successfully organized a domestic tourism tour for selected basic schools in Tema. The Meridian City Tour aimed to highlight the tourism potential of Tema, known as the center of the world, by engaging local students in an educational journey across significant sites in the metropolis.According to Ghana News Agency, a total of 80 pupils from four basic schools-Community 8 Number Two Basic School, Community 7 Number Two Basic School, Saint Paul Roman Catholic School, and New Christian Divine School-participated in the tour. Mr. Robert Tettey Kwame Amiteye, coordinator for the Abibinsroma Foundation and the Miss Centre of the World initiative, emphasized the tour's role in helping students learn, brainstorm, and identify tourism potentials within Tema. He noted that such tours enhance students' understanding of history by allowing them to visualize and experience it firsthand.Miss Lawrencia Ama Yeboah, the first princess of M iss Tourism Ghana 2024, explained that the tour was part of their 'Shape Ghana' project, which focuses on promoting tourism sites and heritage. The initiative aimed to encourage students to appreciate and love the sites within their metropolis. The educational tour also sought to address challenges faced by these tourist sites, with a particular focus on sanitation issues at the Port commercial market and canoe basin.During the tour, the students visited several significant locations, including the Tema Port, the defunct Meridian Hotel, the Tema Regional Police Headquarters, the canoe basin, and the Greenwich Meridian line at the Presbyterian Church of Ghana on the Greenwich Meridian at Tema Community One. The students learned about the historical significance of the Tema Port, built in 1962 by Ghana's first president, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, and recognized as the port at the center of the world.