Foundation preaches morals through drama

The Executive Director, New Generation Change Education Foundation, Dr. Sheri Ajasin, has advised pupils to align themselves to moral values and national ethics as enshrined in the constitution.

Ajasin said this during an interview with our correspondent on Thursday. According to her, it is imperative to engender a positive attitudinal change by observing the seven national ethics of Section 23 of the 1999 Constitution, using drama as a tool.

She noted that these core values include discipline, integrity, dignity of labour, and social justice. Others are religious tolerance, self-reliance and patriotism.

She added that the NGCEF, which will have its inaugural public presentation in Lagos on Wednesday, is set to drive a moral rebirth by using pupils to highlight a core value in their school each week.

“Because of the general belief that what one sees, as well as hears, is retained in the memory longer and that it makes a greater impact on the pupils physically, mentally and emotionally. “Based on this fact, once a week, a 10-minute drama sketch highlighting the core value to be taught in the course of the week is staged during assembly for the entire school.

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“This pattern, when repeated weekly, will result in total immersion of the essence of any particular core value,” she said.

According to the Project Director, NGCEF, Mr. Seyi Fasuyi, the Lagos State government has granted permission for the organisation to use all its primary and secondary schools for the project.

“This is a movement. We want people to join us and contribute financially and in any other way to making this a reality. Our pilot study has shown that a moral rebirth will bring about rapid development and growth in our country,” he said.

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