Friday, 22nd November, 2024 will remain indelible in the hearts of the Pupils, Parents and staff, management, board and owners of the St Luke’s Cathedral Anglican Primary School, Jos, and the Chief executives of Scoreline and Ngasrit Global in Jos, the Plateau state capital, North Central Nigeria, for stepping out in a grand style and for putting up a grand performance in a bold attempt at redefining the concept of cultural day celebration in Schools. Consider the combined efforts that produced a total new package for the St Luke’s Cathedral Anglican Private School Cultural day a pacesetting outing in Plateau state and Nigeria generally and the people that witnessed the event will argue that you are still unable to qualify the event adequately.
Scoreline and Ngasrit Global are reputed for their unflinching commitment to the development of the child and their pet project regarding the concept of cultural sensitization, reorientation, awareness and promotion which they say are vital to reviving the declining, indeed dying culture of Nigeria. The chief executives of the two organizations, Mr. Nnabugwu Chizoba (Scoreline) and Mr. Gobum Panchen (Ngasrit Global) are strongly of the view that “One of the major causes of the challenges in Nigeria is the decline in her culture”. According to them, without sound cultural background and practices, which does not occur by happenstance, the efforts at empowering the individual and making him or her become empathetic, open minded and builder of accommodating bridges, cooperation and encourager of environmental stewardship and sustainability are more often than not wasted and therefore, of no positive effect.
“Culture to the Rescue” is the Pet name of their total Project Package, however, the institutional or school based package is tagged “Culture Goes to School”. The target beneficiaries of this package, the direct beneficiaries first and foremost, are the Teens, Youths and Kids (TYKs), and by extension the school community. Similarly, the indirect beneficiary of the programme, is Nigeria. St Luke’s Cathedral Anglican Private School, Jos, was used to unveil this package by Scoreline and Ngasrit Global, where the programme promoters partnered with the school authority to give effect to the fact that culture is a strong component of the educational system, and doing so participated actively to redesign and promote the annual cultural day activity of the school. The school really wore a new look and the pupils, staff and management, and all others in the school hierarchy on one hand and the project promoters on the other had every reason to give a sigh of relieve owing to the success of the new concept of cultural day celebration introduced by Scoreline and Ngasrit Global.
The promoters who are unflinching on realizing the self-imposed core objectives of their product “Culture to the Rescue” targeted at building the skill, knowledge and understanding of the TYKs (Teens, Youths and Kids) on the subject matter of culture and to accommodate both the tangible and intangible aspects of culture, using them as strong instruments of development of the child and the nation believe strongly in the power and ability of the Nigerian Child in the school to do things that are profoundly amazing are remarkable. However, they believe that the huge potential in the child cannot be adequately tapped if the right training and apparatus are not effectively deployed in both the formal and informal approaches to the education of the child’s hence one of the areas that the two chief executives consider fundamental to child’s development is culture. This understanding led to the creation of “Culture Goes to School” by the promoters of the project for deepening of the training, orientation and sensitization of the child on culture and cultural practices as rudimentary tools for proper training of the child, nation building, growth and sustainable development.
The above informs the reason of the two chief executives to resolve after their prolong meetings to design the cultural sensitization, reorientation, awareness and promotion programme “Culture Goes to School” as a component of “Culture to the Rescue”.
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