Set achieveable targets — Students told
Students in Junior High Schools have been advised to set achievable goals to guide them as they grow to become adults.
Such goals will enable them to have a better understanding of their future so that they can make right choices and realise their dreams.
Resource persons at the ongoing summer youth camp being organised by the Nneka Youth Foundation at Ve Gbodome in the Afadjato South District of the Volta Region, gave this advice to about 670 JHS students.
The participants were the first batch of 3,000 students the foundation was hosting.
The programme, which started on August 6, is expected to end on August 27, 2014.
Other programmes would be organised at Have, Atabu-Hohoe and Vakpo all in the Volta Region.
The participants, drawn from 25 schools within the four communities in the district, were trained by professionals in various fields on how they could set their goals at each point in their lives and work hard towards achieving those targets.
During the week-long programme, the participants engaged in activities such as essay competitions, quizzes, games, sight-seeing among others, to help enhance their skills and boost their confidence.
They were also educated on HIV/AIDS and the Ebola disease.
One of the motivational speakers, Princess Umul Hatiyyal Mahoura, who took the children through the goal-setting agenda, stated that teaching children to set their own targets was by far the best way to help them start life and secure their future.
‘As mentors, our job is to prepare our children for adulthood. So if we want our children to have a successful, satisfying and happy life, then there are some fundamental life skills we need to teach them’ she stated.
Princess Mahoura said financial constraints, setbacks and failures should not stop children from achieving their goals and supported this with real life situations to encourage them.
To support this worthy cause embarked on by the Foundation, the Junior Graphic, the media partner of the programme, since last year, presented 400 copies of the paper, 400 in-house magazines and 50 pieces of souvenirs to the Foundation to be distributed to the participants.
The Senior Corporate Communications Officer of the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL), Ms Kyerewaa Boateng, who presented the items to Mrs Cecilia Fiaka, the Founder of the NGO, said Graphic believed that education was the key to national development.
That, she said, was why the GCGL would continue to provide support in diverse ways to help shape the lives of the youth to become responsible citizens.
Mrs Fiaka said it was better to raise healthy children than to restore adults who had gone wayward to be useful.
Other sponsors included GOIL, OLAM, Ash-Foam, Stanbic Bank, Cowbell, Indomie, Tigo, Miniplast and Shoprite.
