Youth need global curriculum to face future
challenges - Andani
Tema, July 27, Ghanadot/GNA - Mr
Alhassan Andani, Managing Director (MD) of Stanbic Bank
Ghana at the weekend underscored the need for policy makers
to evolve a global curriculum that could shape the future of
the youth.
When this is done, he said, the youth of this nation would
be adequately prepared to face the realities of life
wherever they found themselves.
Mr Andani made the call when he addressed members of
District 9100 Rotary Club of Tema at their Annual
President’s Ball and Fundraising Dinner Dance in Tema.
The ceremony was to enable the club raise funds to help
construct a police station for Tema Community 11 and a
school library.
Mr Andani, who spoke on the theme: “Equipping the Youth for
tomorrow’s Challenges”, observed that in this technological
era when the world seemed to have become a global village,
people needed advanced knowledge to exist.
He, therefore, reminded policymakers to ensure that the
youth of today were emotionally prepared to help them cope
with future challenges with ease.
Mr Andani, himself a Rotarian, called on parents to play
active role in shaping the lives of their children in order
for them to grow to become responsible adults.
Mr Ben Aniagyei, out-going president of the club, thanked
members for their co-operation and support to make the
tenure of the immediate past executive successful.
He said this year, the club participated in all four
National Polio Immunization Programmes that were organised
by the Ministry of Health, and hoped Rotary’s dream of
seeing Ghana a polio-free nation would soon become a
reality.
Mr John Bisiw, the new president urged members to accord the
incoming administration the necessary co-operation and
assistance to enable it live up to expectation.
He said Rotary, under its book distribution project, had so
far distributed over 45 million dollars worth of books to
equip libraries and institutions in the country.
The project, he explained, aims at equipping schools and
other libraries with books in order to help the youth to
acquire sound knowledge to face tomorrow’s challenges.
Mr Bisiw urged civil societies and corporate organisations
to support Rotary in its corporate social responsibilities
so as to make it sustainable.
In a goodwill message, Mr John Kenny, a Scottish and
President of Rotary International, told members that the
future of the club and their individual aspirations lied in
their own hands.
“If our clubs are congenial and our meetings well run; if
our service is carefully planned and competently carried
out; if our members are qualified, honest, and respected in
their vocations and communities, then all of Rotary will
thrive”, he said.
Earlier, the out-going president decorated the
president-elect with the investiture of office signifying
that he had now taken over as the new president of the club.
Rotary is an organisation of business and professional
leaders united worldwide, who provide humanitarian service,
encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help
build goodwill and peace in the world.
GNA
