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The value of this worthy project is a national one
Dear Editor,
Allow me to take time out to commend the Pastor and members of the Wortmanville First Assembly Church on their multi-million-dollar project recently launched. To all those who contributed towards realising this project I applaud your efforts.
Having read the September 8 article captioned “Wortmanville First Assembly Church opens multi-million-dollar facility – to provide training, help the underprivileged” I had anticipated a detailed editorial, in one of the daily’s, which features an insight into the birth of this most welcomed project.
I believe that one cannot underestimate nor overstate the larger socio-economic, spiritual and moral value such a project is likely to add to our society, especially at a time of tremendous challenges.
The project, therefore, serves as a model which can certainly be replicated, though not necessarily on such a large scale. For this reason I believe that if the body responsible for initiating and realising this project is provided an opportunity to share with the nation some details behind the ultimate success of their efforts, other organisations may be able to initiate their own project or to adapt those strategies which might be helpful to their own.
I am aware that all over Guyana many non-governmental organisations are desperately trying to initiate projects and programmes to improve the state of human capital in our country.
I am thus heartened by the recently launched project undertaken by the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA), to provide skills training, etc, to the “at risk youth.”
Similarly, I am moved by the growing Literacy Project initiated a few years ago by Mrs. Carol Corbin, wife of the Opposition Leader, Robert Corbin, which targets children in several communities, who have tremendous challenges reading. I therefore believe that there are much positive lessons to be learnt from the First Assembly Project, which has certainly taken the concept of community and social service to a whole new level. The fact that the project caters for various categories of individuals demonstrates that its value to our society is multifaceted.
Critics have consistently argued that the church needs to play a more meaningful role in society.
I am confident that the birth of this exorbitant project will cause those of us who do not recognise the everyday positive impact the church is continuously making in our society to take another look.
I am delighted that the project specifically targets the youth, who today seem more hopeless than ever and who are consciously looking for the right kind of role model.
We, therefore, must recognise that each of us must take an active role to help revive that kind of self-confidence, self-esteem and self worth that will help in guiding our young people towards securing a more rewarding future, not only for them but for ourselves.
As Hillary Rodham Clinton posits in her book, ‘It Takes a Village: and other lessons children teach us’, “How well we care for our own and other people’s children isn’t only a question of morality; our own self-interest is at stake too”.
And as Kern Alexander and David M. Alexander state in their text ‘American Public School Law, 6th Ed.’ “The interest of all are promoted by a raising level of education of the entire community.”
They further advance that “…all persons have a duty to educate others, if for no other reason than to protect themselves”.
I see the Generation Next project as a leading torch which truly responds to these broad values, and understandings.
I am optimistic that I will see one of the local newspapers providing the church with an opportunity to share with the rest of the society the secrets of their success.
Such an opportunity is likely to provide impetus to new ideas and ignite renewed interest in community service.
Congratulations First Assembly on a most desired and worthy project. I urge us to ensure its continued success; its value is a national one.
Lurlene Nestor
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