Foundation fights ignorance with sensitization of students

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Popular Foundation Fights Ignorance With Sensitization

Owolabi Philip, Akande Victoria



Dr Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." The act of being the voice of hope and change led the Mordecai Care Foundation, a non-governmental organization, to organize an enlightenment symposium for students starting from February through to May 2022 across secondary schools in Osun state. 


One of the 17-United Nations Sustainable Development Goals is to "ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.” This is Mordecai Care Foundation of Nigeria's major priority. Promoting quality education as one of the heroes of Nigeria's campaign for free education with free books. MCFN has been touching lives through their Secondary School Student Sensitization Educative Campaign Programme among these beneficiary schools: Oduduwa College Ile-Ife, St. Philipps Anglican Grammar School, Moremi High School, OAU Ile-Ife, Olubuse Memorial High School, Aganhun, etc.) to sensitize students on topical issues and encourage ace scholars with awards and gifts to foster academic diligence among them. 




Mordecai Care Foundation school sessions are led by volunteers who are seasoned in diverse subjects of human interest. Miss Samuel Monica, led an interactive session on gender-based violence. She educated the students on various types of violence and their consequences. She emphasized the effects of psychological violence on a person's mental health and how verbal abuse could be a trigger. In addition, she urged students to desist from physical violence such as rape, forceful hugs and touching. She stressed that everyone should be masters of their emotions and also value themselves as God values them. After her presentation, a member of staff reiterated her speech in the Yoruba language to the students. 

 


The second speaker, Miss Precious Oyegunle, acquainted students with the impact of climate change on our immediate environment. The burning of fossil fuels, smoke from vehicles and generators' exhaust, and the use of firewood, among others, have the potential to impact our climate negatively. She associated the influx of respiratory diseases such as asthma and the death of plant nutrients as the aftermath of a bad climate. She chided students to stop blowing smoke off the stove but should use water instead; to avoid cutting and burning down trees; to stop smoking cigarettes, and to stop burning refuse in the open but should rather recycle them. 

 



Corper Olamide Blessing, the final speaker, elucidated the dangers of abusing drugs. She hinged the genesis of drug abuse to curiosity and experimentation, peer pressure, boredom, etc. Hallucination, mental damage (or sometimes partial insanity), and loss of focus are among the outcomes of abusing drugs. These effects can alter a person's physical and psychological well-being negatively and ultimately make such a person a dropout. Examples of drugs abused cut across soft and hard drugs. She counselled against taking drugs without a doctor's prescription and advised students to make a personal resolve to refrain from deliberate or unconscious abuse of drugs. 

 




The convener, Mr Adeyemo, gave awards of excellence to students who did fabulously in their previous exams in all the aforementioned schools. Then, clubs on gender-based violence, drugs, and climate change were inaugurated in some schools for pupils to learn more and remain enlightened.

 







Mr Akinola Olabode, the school principal of St. Philipps Anglican Grammar School in an interview with the icons organization commended the initiative describing it "as timely." He lauded the foundation's drive to fight pressing issues like drug abuse and gender based violence in secondary school; he also applauded young minds who volunteered to exemplify the life of excellence before his students.

 


The vice principal of Olubuse Memorial High School, Mr Bada Olatunde chronicled the service of MCFN as "highly motivational and encouraging" in a setting where most pupils display a lackadaisical attitude to learning and knowledge acquisition. 









Written and compiled by ICONS ORGANIZATION

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comments

  1. Anonymous24 May 2022 at 14:24

    This is great!!!

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  2. Olamide Blessing Favour24 May 2022 at 14:25

    Great!!! Very great

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  3. Anonymous24 May 2022 at 22:06

    This is laudable!!

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  4. Anonymous28 May 2022 at 09:49

    This is highly commendable!

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