Wednesday, 11 October 2017

Voice of Development

Good evening fellow Volunteers,
Trust we all had a great day.
I want to use this medium to share with you my experience so far in carrying out the task of bringing about a positive change to the community i am posted to serve.
I was posted to Omuma Community in Oru East Local Government area of Imo State.
With the training i got in camp, i was really prepared to contribute my quota to the development of the community and its constituent.
On getting to this community, i was a bit disturbed seeing the epileptic condition of light, poor infrastructure, and high standard of living but on the other way round, i thought of this as a good pointer to what exactly i am to work on as a trained SDG's Volunteers.
After settling down, i took my time to study and survey the community to know the felt need of the people. I saw lack of clean and quality water, poor waste management and sanitation but never saw one major need until this week when i started teaching in a  secondary school in that community.
I am sure by now you would have been guessing what i saw as this major need.
Its nothing but poor standard education.
I was really shocked to my bone when i asked the students in the Senior Secondary School 3, a simple mathematics question and no one in the class could provide a reasonable answer. I thought this deficiency was only in the area of mathematics but i never knew it was the same in the area of physics and other subjects. This first impression really weighed me down.
I could not keep this to myself so i decided to share with my fellow Corps members posted to that same community and what they told me again added to the degree of the shock. They told me, "it is the same everywhere".
Oh! The challenge of development.
As i heard this from my friends, what came to my mind was the big task ahead. The task of proffering a lasting solution to this issue which is in line with the goal 4 of the Sustainable Development Goals; Quality Education
I am of the opinion that if this deficiency persist, we might end up losing some potentials who would have added a lot to the economic and educational riches of the nation and end up increasing the number of young graduates who later turned up to be a nuisance to the society.
For this reason, i have decided to adopt the school and sensitize them on the importance of education and on the Sustainable Development Goals thereby increasing the quality of education in the community with some programmes i hope to come with by God's grace.
I want to use this medium to encourage SDG's Volunteers in Imo State and other states to please try and do their best in bringing about meaningful development to their respective community within this one year programme.
We shall live it and preach it, till we all see a new Nigeria.
Team we shall be, All stakeholders. Together Each Achieve More.
I pray that God almighty will equip us all with everything we need to bring about this change in Jesus name.
We are a Happy family of development.
SDG; Everyone, everywhere.
Signed;
Ogunyemi Olakunle Joshua.
SDG's Representative, Imo State.
Newtonk4christ@yahoo.com.
www.olakunle4impact.blogspot.com

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