A LUCID NARRATION OF OUR TRAINING SEMINAR*
The seminar to sensitize activists on the use of the media to end FGM which was held at the office of Society for The Improvement of Rural People(SIRP) on the 18th and 19th of February was a mind-blowing session for all and sundry who participated in it.
The seminar commenced with opening remarks from Dr. Chris Ugwu, Executive Director of SIRP, who gave a full presentation on how the training was to be held. He narrated how the training would spark off in order for the seminar to have the expected result it was aimed at. Also, he implored the fifteen activists who were participants during the seminar to give the training their best of focus and attentions so that they could acquire the necessary skills to curb and end FGM in society. Dr Chris Ugwu also extended his speech by letting the activists to know of the maximum joy he felt by the eagerness of few selected people who were keen to dedicate their times in making FGM a thing of history before the year 2030.
The meeting went into another phase were intensive training was facilitated by an expert in the field of FGM and Media Technology in the name of Mrs Chinasa. She opened the floor with utmost appreciation to the Wallace Global foundation (WGF) and SIRP for organising such an innovative training seminar for activists in Enugu State.
She expressed her joy not only because she was the facilitator, but also for the willingness to eradicate this menace called FGM by few activists in Enugu State.
Mrs Chinasa therefore commenced the seminar with what FGM was, how devastating it was to the girl child. the debilitating effect it was to society at large if not curbed in time. Mrs Chinasa gave a full presentation using illustrations and apparent simplified model of teaching to equip the activists with modern tools and technological media instruments that can be used to spread the campaign against FGM and to also share some highlights on why it should be curbed before 2030. She gave a detailed information on why these media equipment should be adopted by every activists or organization fighting this huge turbulent weapon of destruction called FGM on the female gender. She equally gave a narrative explanation on how swift and easy this media instruments can work for us to get the anticipated results we aim at. Mrs Chinasa made the activists to know that in a world overly controlled by technology, solutions are easily proffered by people via the Internet these days and that activists should continue in this manner to prepare themselves with more of such training they were undergoing in order to achieve the desired goals of their activism.
She ended her training with feedbacks from the activists and she further gave answers to questions being asked which made everyone to be happy after the training.
From the participants we had, we understood that they were elated beyond words because the training were conducted on a simplified manner without any form of ambiguity.
Our seminar ended with showers of testimony from the fifteen participants who were so eager to learn more from the facilitator. Clearly speaking, the training were well conducted and the desired goal was accomplished on our first seminar.
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