Hope Raisers Global Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), on Wednesday rounded off its 16 weeks teaching activities with children from the Durumi Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camp, Abuja.
The teaching activities which centred on different topics ranging from moral, security, hygiene and others, were carried out with children from the ages of two to teenagers aged 16.
Mrs Angonimi David-Imeh, the founder of the NGO, disclosed that the sole aim of the teachings was to move against social vices among Nigerian youths, and the need to emulate moral behaviors.
“The teaching activities were for children from age two to age 16, and it dwelled mostly on how to carry on with moral behaviours within the society.
“We believe in sustainable development, one way to see progress in anything you are doing is to be patient, copy, edit and repeat process with little tweaks here and there, and most especially it must be need driven.
“We have spent almost 2 years in this camp and our acronym states thus DEED which means: Discover, Educate, Empower and Deploy.
“We have been doing all at various times, but we are repeating processes that haven’t given maximum results yet, we repeat processes according to their needs from time to time.
“This is a strategy used in economic planning,” she stressed.
David-Imeh stated that the children are living in an area where negative vices are “the order of the day, hence one of the reasons for putting up the teaching idea, all in the aim not to make them emulate bad characters.
“As one who also volunteers with the Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC), and as a national leader in the women committee, I am aware of the causes of insecurity in Nigeria communities.”
She stated that one of the ways to curb insecurity in the society is to help children to imbibe the right culture.
“We also need to make them know and understand the disadvantages of being a threat to the society and pointing their attention to a desirable future.
“To build a better society, we must engage indigent children because they are vulnerable and susceptible to negativity,” she said.
She also buttressed that children should be caught early enough as it is often said “Children are future leaders”. (NAN)
