Gradually the curtains are beginning
to close as we round up Day 6 which is our last full day at the 2019 Activate
Youth Camp.
Today, we started with the
general training session led by Mr. Taiwo Akinlami. His session focused
on
distractions young people face especially the campers. He highlighted easy
distraction for campers were social media, video games including emotional
attachment (boy friend and girl friend). Following from these, he mentioned
that there are 3 types of people on the internet: the fun seekers, the
fraudsters and the business/information seekers. In rounding up, he encouraged
campers that “the future begins today; there is no future if we don’t manage
today well.”
The skills class rounded up and finalized
their products. The second phase of the skills class was a general session on
financial inclusion and money saving by Okeroghene Egbi, the Customer
Acquisition Manager at Renmoney Nigeria. She advised campers to develop a
saving culture and investment attitude.
At Sports, campers having trained
for the whole week engaged mentors in a friendly match that ended in goals
galore with mentors coming from 4 goals down to win the match at 6 – 5. The
atmosphere created post match stood true to the words “losing is
part of
winning!”
The highlights of tonight was our
Varieties night and award ceremony. Campers presented in different categories
from dance, to music, modeling, spoken word poetry and displayed the final
products of what they had learned over the week. Best performing campers across
all the skills and sporting categories were rewarded including the top prizes
for the night for Overall Best Camper Male and Female categories; and Overall
Best Mentor/Intern Male and Female categories.
Tomorrow the curtains will draw
close for Activate Youth Camp 2019 and we can’t wait to see the expressions
from the campers as they say their goodbyes to their new friends, loved facilitators
and favourite mentors.
You work hard, so you are permitted to play hard. Well done AYC team and family for great service to the community through impacting the children/campers positively in the last few days.
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