![]() Top of the responses I got were “School is boring”, “I am tired o, I want to start making money”, “why is school important sef?” “School na scam jhor”, “me I want to do music and play football”. We had a robust and exciting conversation about sports, entertainment, fashion and life generally till I asked about school □.Īll the sparks of energy with which everyone was speaking earlier got extinguished by one harmless question,“Howww is school?” □ Wholistic education prepares students to be responsible and productive adults.Ī few weeks ago, I met with some secondary school students to get feedback on our mentorship program for program redesign. What actually makes Education > Schooling is the application of the former to real life situations. Ah! My life! I had to take a break, gulped half bottle of water, reprogrammed my thoughts in pidgin for smooth delivery and went back in to complete the task.Ī skill not occasionally sharpened, gathers dusts and may become incompetent. It was at that moment I realized I haven’t had a proper conversation in pidgin in a very long time. I tried again, and couldn’t be fluent in pidgin. Hehehe… I stuttered! Haba now, e no suppose hard like that. “Ehen!, na now you come!” was the loudest response I heard. ![]() I paused, and then asked if I could switch to pidgin English. So I began my speech lightly, but I haven’t spoken for too long before I noticed not everyone completely understood what I was saying. I asked if I could speak in English and almost everyone nodded, some even muttered “of course”, “go on”. ![]() I had to address the group based on an experience I had when I visited the community few months before (quite an interesting one it was, I should share too soon). It was a meeting with local indigenes, SBMC members, and community based volunteers of an island where Slum2School Africa sponsor children to go to school. I had a shocking awakening during one of the meetings we had in our just concluded community advocacy campaign. Kudos to the team Mary Omange Nurudeen Omotunde That every child, regardless of where they live, will have access to quality education, be safe and healthy, we will go through bushes and across waters when we have to. ![]()
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