EDUCATE BY ALL MEANS

Today marks the end of our education series and we would be towing a novel path. The world we seek to sustain is in dire need of our resources;  time, labor, money and even attitude. Education being a strong tool for change is imperative and must be canvassed for and ensured in every nook and cranny of our world. World leaders have a pivotal role to play, however, there is no barrier or impediment to citizens participation and contribution even without assistance or input by the government (this is not a means to absolve the government of her duties to the people). Many strong  economies in the world come from a rich history of entrepreneurs who took the bull by its horns to develop their countries and pockets, hence, the ultimate development of their economies. The role of  the average citizen in the guarantee of quality education in our world whether formally or informally cannot be overemphasised. It is easy to identify a need and do nothing about it that is stand by, complain and detach oneself from the situation, the reasons are not far fetched as you may righteously believe that it is not in your place to take action.  

Revert your minds to how we all have been encouraged to take action no matter how little,  today, we  celebrate a phenomenal youth volunteer Oluwaseun Tolulope Adesanya who has decided to work against the dictates of conventional resistance; ‘Complaints without action’ in order to create the future of Nigeria that she desires to see.

In 2015, Seun Adesanya founded the Going Against The Tide Network (GATT Network). The network is an Oluseun A. Initiative in memory of her parents (Olufemi and Aderonke Adesanya). The network seeks to change the world through education on positivity and the need for an upright attitude in every youth. the form of education canvassed by the network is informal, seeking the liberation of the mind of the average Nigerian youth. This initiative is celebrated not because it has carried out multi million or even thousand Naira projects but for the little it does at every point in time to develop the youth mentally through its positivity campaigns. This brings me to another important aspect of this post that cannot be missed; YOU DO NOT NEED MEGA RESOURCES, MILLIONS OR THOUSANDS OF MONEY BEFORE YOU CAN VOLUNTEER OR TAKE ON PROJECTS GEERED AT THE IMPROVEMENT OF OUR WORLD. (this is a topic on its own set for another day). Whatever resources you have or can acquire such as your time, your space, your intuition, your mind or even waste in your environment has the potential to make the world a better place, so take action you have no reason not to!.

In her spare time, she volunteers with the the Bwari Child Foundation, an initiative set up by students of the Nigerian law school to reach out to children in the community through child welfare centric programs. she has signed up to be a volunteer at the Sickle Cell Aid Foundation. While she was in the university, she was an active member of a charity foundation that worked earnestly to raise school fees for indigent students and cater to the needs of surrounding orphanages and children homes. She did all these against the conventional dictates of hands in thighs and incessant complaints which colours the regular Nigerian youth. She has decided to change her world through informal education on positivity and the importance of uprightness in ensuring global change.

She clocks 21 today and it is another time to celebrate a youth who is taking charge of her world while holding the hands of secondary school students by encouraging them to go against the tide. The tides that now plague our world and must be addressed with prompt and guided measures.

How can you educate your immediate environment to facilitate change and sustainable development? As a citizen of this world, you owe your world a duty to ensure its sustenance through prompt and guided response to any form of impediment to its sustenance, you can take action as regards any occurrence that you believe is a threat to the sustenance of the world;  these impediments may be in relation to any of the sustainable development goals. The question is; what would you rather do? Sit around and sustain the conventional practice of complaint or stand up, be and make the change you want to see? I hope you chose the latter.

Always have it at the back of your mind that you owe your world a duty to actively contribute your own quota into making it the world you want to see and not the one you hate to see but complain incessantly about. 

Today, we celebrate Oluwaseun Adesanya and every youth volunteer out there taking the world as theirs’ and making it into a better and sustainable place.

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