Our human existence is guided by principles and values; by beliefs and practices. Our positive inner values are far reaching, significantly fulfilling, spiritually uplifting.
The more we give space for values that deepen our ego, strenghten our love for material wealth, boost our desire for power, the less room we give to peace, mature love and true friendship.
Our work and core daily business is something that ought to be guided by positive values. Our profession is a profession because it is meant to assist people and society achieve its common goals.
Doctors save lives, farmers feed us. The artists feed our eyes with art that shapes our imagination, that inspires us. The dressmaker clothes us and keeps us warm and less naked. We can have thousands of examples.
The journalists work towards a perfect society by providing information and generating knowledge for public action.
As I sit with my friends from the Ghana Institute of Journalism on a bus headed to a rural community in the Central Region, I know that our bus is running on those inner values that called and told us that even if we do not have, we have no excuse not to give. Those inner values that told us that a little difference is still a difference and that every single effort counts. Those values that guide the practice of journalism. To report the truth, nothing buth the truth. To engage the little children, the young people and the aged, for they have received little attention.
Wherever you find yourself in life, there are still many more behind you that need you to regularly turn back and hold their hands and pull them along life's ladder. That is called selflessness.
These students are young people explaining social justice and inclusion with this little effort to inspire the children, engage the community of OtibilKrom and report the daily life stories of the children so they become visible. These students acknowledge that our dear country Ghana should stretch her human and other resources into places that need it most- a place like OtibilKrom in Ghana's Central Region
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Ghana Institute of Journalism Students' Humanitarian trip
indeed keteke has shown that the lives of others (children) are important and needs to be cared for.
ReplyDeleteIt's an important step we have taken and I am confident we will sustain this even in our careers. Thanks for offering yourself.
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