Veteran actress, Jemima Osunde, has called upon God to eradicate the COVID-19 pandemic before July 20th, 2020 as she remembered how July 20th, 2019 went. Osunde was with some invited students lecturing them on how they could develop self-esteem. As a reporter who also attended the event, I need to explain what happened.
The actualization of any lucrative or innovative idea of a child depends on his readiness to discover who he is and what problems he wants to solve in society. Every child has the innate ability to explore one gift or talent if he finds a mentor or pathfinder that can encourage and guide him to the right path beside the formal education which we learn through schooling.
In every good society, the government of the state is responsible for the students’ careers discussions with little involvement from the parents. It is through this formal process that a child can develop self-esteem which is the only element that can bring confidence in portraying the gift; talent or passion endowed inside him.
So, as the government has failed to include academic career orientation in the educational curriculum in Nigeria, the Truss Empowerment Foundation has taken up this career discussion as one of its responsibilities by inviting some young Nigerians whose talent or passion has really reinforced their academic qualification, despite the stress they went through during the struggle, to come and have a discussion with some invited students from schools in Lagos State. This event that took place at Black Bell Restaurant, Adeola Odeku on the 20th July 2019, needs to be reckoned with for its humanitarian activities in the society.
The Truss Empowerment Foundation is a non-governmental Foundation that engages in empowering women and girls to achieve their social; economic and political ambitions.
Well, no one prays for deviation from his main duty to unrecognised one but the deviation of the Truss Empowerment Foundation from its main motive, creation of empowerment for the female gender, into children’s educational funfairs is a welcome idea.
The mission behind the event is to make the children to discover who they are and to be guided towards that.
Jemima Osunde whose living is earned through acting and psychotherapy told the children that a student could study medicine in the college of medicine in university and still be an actress or possess any other talents apart from the academic qualification.
Osunde told the children at the event that she started acting at the age of sixteen because that is her passion. She urged the children to run their passions and academic careers simultaneously without fear of losing one for others.
“A film called lion’s heart, which I happened to be one of the characters, produced by Genevieve Nnaji was shot in Enugu.
I needed to sit for a paper called clinical examination the following day at the college of medicine at the University of Lagos the day I was on set for my roles.
I missed my flight to Lagos but Genevieve got me a driver that drove me to Lagos at that night, some hours to the exam.
I got an “A” in that course because what I really have passion for had never affected my course negatively, ” she said.
She reminded the children of the fact that Dr Sid from Marvins Record is a medical doctor (dentist) and also a musician. So, a combination of academic achievement and talent should be complementary for each other but not a deterioration to one another.
Children! You can always combine passion and academic careers together.
At the event, a boy, Emeka Olisah, was given a fabulous gift and also named as Mr Confidence as he performed excellently in every game he took with other children. Some other children were also given some gifts because they interpreted what they learnt judiciously.
Mrs Ngozi Ofochebe and Olukemi Sowemimo also gave vital orientation to the children on how to build self-confidence and self-esteem.
Self-esteem is very important because, without it, one can’t have a belief in oneself. Moreover, he that does not have belief in what he has as a gift will die with this talent even if he lives in an encouraging environment.
Mr Graigie taught the children Yoga and told them to follow him in the exercising of the entire body. He said exercising rejuvenates the body and stimulates the body system’s hormone.
He told the children that students should do more exercises and engage in enough relaxing moments as these make them think positively. “Positive thinking produces a positive outcome.
Organizations like Truss Empowerment Foundation are not many in Nigeria that is the reason we have many drop-outs and those that were able to graduate from Universities couldn’t get a satisfying job, rather a mere job, because they didn’t go through this kind of event where students were taught how to manage their special endowment, passion and academic careers successfully.
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