Three students from Rivers State owned schools will participate at the National High School Model United Nations (NHSMUN) conference at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, United States.
They are John Friday Pepple from Oginigba Comprehensive Community Secondary School, Port Harcourt, Miss Vivian Miracle Sorgia of Bodo City Girls Secondary School, Bodo and Miss Seke-Adin Tamuno Reuben of Community Secondary School Amadi-Ama, Port Harcourt.
The students were selected after passing their written and oral test last year.
The students were assigned one organisation and two committees of the United Nations and each has two topics of deliberation during the 4-day conference.
Miss Seke-Adim Tamuno Reuben was assigned World Health Organisation and will speak on the topics, Non-communicable diseases, challenging global development and preventing and responding to cholera pandemics in developing countries.
Another students, John Friday Pepple, was assigned special, political and decolonisation committee and will speak on the Human Trafficking in Middle-East and Right to Education in Emergency situation.
While the third, Miss Vivian Miracle Sorgia, was assigned disarmament and international security committee and will speak on the following topics: prevention of illicit small Arms Trafficking in Latin American and Landmine use in Asia and the Middle East.
Receiving the students in her office in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State Commission for Education, Dame Alice Lawrence-Nemi, declared that the state is reaping the benefits of its investments in the education sector.
Lawrence-Nemi said she believed in the ability of the students because of the quality of teaching and learning in the state.
The Education Boss noted that the state has well trained and qualified teachers which make it possible for students to participate in such conference.
She maintained that the transformation that has taken place in the education sector of Rivers State has witnessed the exodus of students and pupils from private to public schools.
The Model United Nations (MUN) conference, a catch-them-young initiative, is a forum that gathers international students from all over the would to deliberate on today’s common world difficulties and challenges that all countries are increasingly affected by.
The forum offers invaluable insights into the full range of United Nations activities and responsibilities.
National High School Model United Nations (NHSMUN) is a 40-year-old conference for high school students that holds annually at the United Nations Headquarters and attracts about 3,000 international delegates.
It is designed to equip students with transferable life long skills such as negotiation skills, conflict resolution, consensus building, public speaking, internet literature research and social etiquette.
The 2013 edition will hold from the 6th to 9th of March.

Eunice Choko-Kayode