Banjul, 17 January 2012 -- “We in the education sector believe that the learner needs to be given room for self-exploration and application of what is learnt rather than being a passive recipient. This is exactly what the WHO Health Academy Project is trying to achieve”. These were the words of the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, Mr Baboucarr Bouy, at a recent ceremony marking the end of a countrywide inter-secondary school competition on the WHO Health Academy Project (HAP).

HAP is an IT-based health promotion tool initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO-HQ), which is being implemented jointly by the WHO Country Office and the Ministries of Health and Social Welfare and Basic and Secondary Education in a number of senior secondary (high) schools across the country

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