The authorities of the African Dream Academy, Robertsfield Highway, invited several lecturers from diverse professions, including journalism, to speak to their students on Career Day.
The program, which was held on Friday, February 26, 2021, on the school’s campus, brought together a journalist, police officer, military personnel, caterer, politician, pastor, musician, among others, who spoke to the students, session by session, on how to choose a career before matriculating to college or university.
Students were dressed according to their future careers, as lecturers from diverse backgrounds enlightened them on how to choose suitable careers. The students, who wished to become nurses, soldiers, politicians, lawyers, police officers, pastors, and so on, told the Hot Pepper that they have passion for their future careers.
The politician told students who would like to become politicians and the rest of the students in the audience that politicians enable citizens to know their rights, control the affairs of the citizens and the state, and so on. Likewise, the pastor told them that pastors are God’s representatives who control positive spiritual matter for God’s Kingdom on earth. He added that God is a Supreme Being who created the heaven and the earth and everything in them. He continued that God sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, who died for humankind, and he is coming back to judge the world—to take the righteous people with him.
In furtherance, the military personnel informed the students that the military defends the state, and is the last order of the state. He said in the military discipline is paramount.
The Hot Pepper’s reporter, Ojuku Silver-tongue Kangar, Jr., in an audible tone told aspiring journalists and the rest of the students listening to him that journalists play a pivotal role in the society and the world at large. He defined journalism as saying, “The activity or job of collecting, writing and editing news stories for newspapers, magazines, television, radio, and so on.” He outlined that journalists inform, entertain and educate; serve as megaphones of the society; mediates between the government and the citizenry; expose corruption in society and in government; promote development initiatives that are being carried out by government and the private sector; and publicize moral happenings in the society and lapses, and so on.
In separate remarks, the various speakers told the student populace to have passion for their future careers and not be influenced by friends, as students are doing in various colleges and universities nationwide and always get on probation or fail in their major courses.
Meanwhile, the African Dream Academy’s Principal, Alice C. Reeves, emphasized the importance of the Career Day, saying that it is intended to expose the children to all the possibilities out there—to give them the chance to think about who they want to become in future.
“The African Dream Academy Career Day program is an annual event held November each year, but due to the late opening of schools as a result of COVID-19 it was rescheduled for February 26, 2021. We wrote about twenty-three speakers and nineteen came and spoke, which was a success for this year’s Career Day Program. We invited politician, musician, nurse, police officer, soldier, among others,” African Dream Academy’s Principal stated.
She observed that since the formation of the school in 2012 it has made a positive impact on the society in terms of giving quality education to Liberia’s future leaders.