Addressing global issues such as extreme poverty, inequality, and climate change requires urgent and widespread action. These problems seem interconnected; therefore, a deliberate effort to instill in youth and children the need to change their mindset and be innovative has become imminent.
The Akrofuom District Assembly has, however, resolved to support some committed teachers in the district to help teach school children to adopt a new mindset that will be a complete departure from the status quo and embrace innovation.
The Chief Executive of the District, Dr. Maurice Jonas Woode, made this assertion when he engaged with the media after a day’s workshop organized by the Center for Balance Development, a US-based non-governmental organization dedicated to enhancing balance in the global development process.
The workshop, which involved teachers and school children drawn from basic schools in the district, focused on one of the key programs of the NGO: ‘Innovation Club: Path of Success for Innovators of Tomorrow’.
It is a progressive, innovative, and holistic empowerment program designed for children and youth to nurture their capacities and talents, enhance their innovative mindset, and discover their unique path of success by exploring innovations that serve the needs of the global community for a more united, prosperous, and sustainable world.
The DCE said that before youth can be empowered to have an innovative mindset, it is imperative to start from the foundational level, hence his decision to bring the program to Akrofuom, which was the first of its kind in the country.
He said the District Assembly was encouraged by the interactions from the lecture and will commit to supporting some of the teachers who demonstrate enough commitment to extending the lessons learned to their students to enable them to have a unique and innovative mindset to lead the campaign for a change in attitudes.
An Auxiliary Board member of the Center for Balance Development, who was the resource person for the workshop, Tony Parker Danso, commended the District Chief Executive for supporting the workshop, stressing that the Akrofuom district has proven to be a leader in educational transformation in the region.
He emphasized the need to change the mindset of kids and prepare them for the future. “We need concepts to enable the children to face the challenges of the world; the focus is to empower the kids and the youth to face the challenges to change the world.”
Mr. Danso was optimistic that the youth are well-conditioned to have a change in mindset and hence called for the support of the Government and its agencies to enable the youth and children to adopt the right approaches in dealing with environmental, social, and economic challenges of the world.
The participants, numbering over 40, expressed excitement over the workshop and said they have acquired new ideas on how to be agents of change in their respective schools.
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