Female Teachers Brainstorm On Societal Values

The National Association of female teachers (NAFET) in collaboration with the Generational Changers Foundation (GCF) last week organized a one-day seminar  on services to humanity with specific focus on value inculcation and re-orientation.

The event which brought together over a hundred female teachers from primary, post primary and tertiary institutions in the 23 Local Government Areas in Rivers State, articulated the roles of teachers in the transformational agenda of the federal government of Nigeria as well as  the importance of value re-orientation among teachers in national development.

In her welcome address, the national President of the association, Lady Chikanele Asuru, charged the female teachers to look critically at the issues and challenges hindering societal progress such as the orgy of kidnapping, bombing, cultism, child abuse, armed robbery, unemployment, poverty and low expansion of the economy.

She said that the seminar could not have come a better time than now as it offers members a rare opportunity to brainstorm and pray for peace and stability in our country Nigeria as well as re-strategise for a better tomorrow.

Also speaking, the coordinator of the Generational Changers Foundation, (GCF) Mrs Florence Kpekon, said the reason behind the organisation of the seminar is largely to correct the lack of positive attitude in societal services and to bring about right attitude and positive change through sensitising women to know that they are agents and carriers of change.

She emphasised that both children, adults, communities, states and the country at large, rely on the women to inculcate into them this positive change.

It will be recalled that the Association of female Teachers was formed, following the poor level of learning and prevalent moral decadence in the society especially among children, which has led to a high level of examination malpractices, high school dropouts, cultism, early teenage pregnancy youth restiveness and other vices.