A private school in Osogbo, Kunike International School on Tuesday embarked on repairs of two kilometres of road along Osogbo-Ilesa road, the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports.
Students and teachers of the school were seen in their dozens as early as 7 am filling several portholes and bad portions of the road with gravel and other construction equipment.
The proprietor of the school, Mrs Olanike Olakunle, in an interview with NAN, said the repair work was a community service as part of the school’s corporate social responsibility to its host community.
She explained that the community service was also a strategic way of instilling community service in the students to make them patriotic and responsible citizens.
According to her, the school has a standing philosophy of building future leaders through the culture of selflessness and hard work.
“Kunike is not another school out there; it’s a peculiar school raising peculiar treasures that will emerge as Peculiar Global Leaders.
“The students are being trained to become servant leaders through community service; they are also being trained to learn how to give back to the communities where they belong.
“We are making them to be conscious of the fact that citizens have a major role to play in nation-building outside the government.
“We are also teaching them the tenets of economic diversification which informed the acquisition of about six hectares of land by the school where students are involved in practical farming,” she said.
NAN recalls that the school, in collaboration with Delta School District in Vancouver, Canada had, in May, given full scholarship to Amina Alli and Serah Luka.
Alli and Luka were the first two Chibok girls rescued from the captivity of Boko Haram insurgents.
Source: Daily Trust
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