A cross-section of university students from Monrovia and its environs on Wednesday, March 23, 2022 benefited from a day-long training from the Innovative Partner Network Liberia Organization in Congo Town, Monrovia.
The training centered around leadership, leading by example, individual competence development, non-violence, danger and benefits of peer pressure, danger of domestic violence, danger of drug addiction and how to avoid drug-taking.
Speaking to the Hot Pepper after the opening of the training, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Innovative Partner Network Liberia, James Holder Nuah, said the training aimed at preparing young people across the country to serve as agents of change in their communities. He told the paper that young people, especially university students, are potential leaders in both the private and public sectors, and so refreshing their minds with regard to leadership role is important. According to him, training of young people on how to be important in society cannot be left alone with the government; therefore, his organization has come to fill in the gap.
Nuah disclosed that drug addiction in the society is becoming alarming, and the need to train young people on the danger of drugs is important to his organization. He emphasized that many youths are getting addicted to drugs, thereby damaging their future, because of peer pressure. He admonished young people not to be carried away by peer pressure even if encountering financial difficulties. CEO Nuah has called on the youths of Liberia to take their education seriously because it is the easiest way to success.
Participants of the training, according to Nuah, will move to the various communities to enlighten their colleagues on the importance of education and the threat mob-violence and drug addiction pose to the society. He informed the Hot Pepper that if proper measure to curtail drug-taking and mob-violence is not taken, the future of the country will be at risk.
The campaign against mob-violence, domestic violence and drug-addiction, according to CEO Nuah, will shortly start in Nimba County. This, he revealed, is his contribution to the society as a former student leader who has had the opportunity of obtaining higher education outside Liberia.