This post is in commoration of the @hivenaija second anniversary, as a way of igniting our celebration and forging the nija spirit even more, we engage in that one spectacular thing we would do for our immediate environment, in form of reaching out, adding value, impacting life, leaving a footprint of our legacy in the sands of time as true nijans bond together by the Nijaspirit.....
Sincerely speaking I'm proud to be identified as a true Nija man, like I'm really proud of this country of mine, ignorance will make some say some nasty but if you know better enlightenment will come, Nigeria is truly a blessed country in all ramification on the surface of the earth, this we see in many aspects too numerous to mention, many things that bond us together as a country strongly united in diversity.
What can you do for your immediate environment
Right so, for me its adding value, transferring knowledge, impacting lives in many ways possible, so I am starting now...
I will be very plain on that
I am a corper posted to one of the eastern state in Nigeria, to serve the nation's one year mandatory service for all eligible graduate, after my three weeks orientation camping I was posted to a Government school as my Primary place of assignment (PPA), so I have noticed something-a void i need to fill and that's my contribution to my mediate environment.
To impact the lives of these student through education
Teaching is something I have never done before I was skeptical about it, but then I had no option, but as I progress i began to love the act, engaging with the children was much fun than I expected.
All tho I was assigned my class and my head teacher would often ask me to cover up for her due to one reasons or the other, I never declined, meanwhile many other corpers in my lodge always tell me "she's using you, oga no go dey do pass uourself"....(stop doing more than you can).
While they feed me with all this mindset which was true some how, I feel bad if I would not teach this children, if I leave them how will they learn or know what they are suppose to, I understand some of the staffs wrong attitude to work, whether the children learn or not its not their concern as far as they get paid at the end of the month.
I was talking with a collegue of mine yesterday about the knowledge gap in the educational system, how many children that include me to an extend some of us, who had a very wrong foundation in math, its either the teachers were threatening, harsh, always flogging, teaching in such a way that not every body really understood, if you ever been to a Government primary or secondary school you will get the pint, and so most of us grew up with a very wrong foundation of maths, and if the foundation is faulty then there is nothing there is to do, most of them as a result hate maths cause they don't always understand and all of that...
For me the future is very very important and to get things straight the present must be handled with care, I knew the wrong foundation i had and in many other instances growing up in school, and wouldn't want that to happen these kids, so I go out of my lane to ensure I cover as far I can, doing my best to cover the lapses, even tho the school as my PPA do not pay corpers or in any way appreciate, I really don't mind, I do it for love, I do it as my own sacrifice, I do it to secure a good future for them.
And so these is my own quota in uniting and making stronger the nijaspirit in my immediate environment by impacting educational knowledge and even beyond the scope nof education to enlightened these kids around me...
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