Nigerian Bottling Company Plc partners with NGO
Aug 25th, 2011 by admin
Hope For life Initiative, a non-govermental organisation basd in Lagos collaborated with Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) makers of COca Cola to organise a mentoring session at Isanwo Senior Secondary School where students had a seminar on how to make the best career out of their natural endowment and skills. The programme, was described by most of the students as “an eye opener.”
One of the resource persons, Joy Egolum, procurement adminstrator, NBC, charged the students to make their dreams count. She stressed that the best way to make it in life is when an individual decides to do what he is good at doing at any point in time. Disscussing what she termed “SWOT” analysis, the acronym that was translated as strength, Weakness,Opportunity and Threat, Egolum said the secret of a prospective leader is the choice of a good mentor. She established that reading to acquire relevant information about any chosen skillis a clue to excellence “Your strength is whatever you do well. There is nothingyou cannot make money from in life. All you need is to identify yourself. Segun Gele, a male artiste lives on tying Gele(head gear) for people. Don’t think that what you are doing is a small thing. It may earn you your livingif only you develop it. She also said that though there is practically nothing one can do abbout his weaknesses, however, any good dream must aspire to convert every opportunityto reality. She referred to the likes of the first African Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka;author of award-winning novel,Half of a yellow sun, Chimamanda Adichie; among othersas great Nigeriansthat have distinguished themselves through the books they have churned out. She however advisedthe youth never to allow their threat to kill their dream but raather work on how to overcome it. “If you know how to any write, write well. You never know what it will earn you tommorow.” She again charged the students to read at least a book per week to develop their intelligent quotient which she claimed can only improve when pushed into challenges.
Students wer given the opportunity to ask questionsat the close of the session. Some of the questions asked include; How can one overcome threat? If your talent is not what you want it to be, what do you do? Ifu get pregnant prematurely, can you still ever achieve your dream? If you discover your talents but you are financially handicapped to acquire the required training for its development, what do you do?
keep up the good work. Bravo Coca Cola for supporting
Great post. Am interested in getting involved with HFLI.
My school is around Ikorodu, when can you come and how can we get more information about this organisation.