mercredi 17 février 2010
"Yendu d'Espoir" or Holiday for Hope
Action-Etudiant pour la Petite Enfance (Students’ Initiative for infancy support) was created in January 2009 in Gaston Berger University of Saint-Louis. It aims at backing the Kindergarten of Ndiawdoune, a village situated some cable’s length away from the campus. In the starting school year and (at) the end of Christmas holidays, the association organized a “Yendu d’Espoir” called activity.
By such an initiative, Students from Gaston Berger University (GBU) want to show a new positive student image different from which is often showed through the media. That’s why they want to be useful to the community which surrounds them, that is to say GBU’s surrounding villages.
The “Yendu d’Espoir” is part of Action-Etudiant pour la Petite Enfance’s year programme. For 3rd year politic science student, coordinator Amadou Moctar Diallo, the aim of that activity “is to enable on the one hand, members of our structure to meet with the founders of the kindergarten during this new school year (the managing team, the supervisors and the toddler committee), to tackle toddlers’ study conditions issue in order to determine how to better help. On the other, it tends to grant them Christmas holidays gifts and school stationery”.
Speeches
The ceremony started at 5 pm with the welcome speech by Ndiawdoune kindergarten’s headmistress. She magnified the students’ commitment towards the kindergarten and thanked parents for their mobilization.
As for the spokesman of toddlers‘parents, he expressed parents’ joy and encouraged students for their initiative by wishing them success in their studies. During his speech, Action-Etudiant’s coordinator felt very glad about the warm welcome they received from the inhabitants of the village.
According to Mr. Diallo, students must work on the promotion of toddlers’ education so that the latter have the chance to go to university and maybe to replace, one day, present Action-Etudiant members. Moreover, he evoked the other activities he plans to organize this year, namely a free consultation day for toddlers, a visit to GBU and end of year celebration for those kiddies. When he took the floor, regional coordinator of saint-Louis kindergarten Masseck Ba called to the population for students’ initiative support.
Presentation of saving books and gifts
Mr. Ba took the advantage of this ceremony to give the coordinator of Action-Etudiant the eight (8) saving books for the children within the scope of the official sponsorship. He explained to students methods of payment. He will told parents that “this money students are going to save in the children’s account is just for children and no one else. However, you can follow suit students by depositing money into that account monthly or from time to time”.
After the presentation of the saving books, Mr Ba, in the name of all GBU students, gave to the headmistress an important set of line copybooks, blue pens, ordinary and coloured pencils for her pupils, 200-page books and files for supervisors.
Interviewed on the origin of funds dedicated to that activity, Mr Diallo answered: “only GBU students financed it. We paid visits to students in their rooms and we just requested their contribution after having explained to them what the matter was about. They did appreciate it and encouraged us so much. Some gave red or blue tickets and, other, school stationery or money. We converted such red and blue tickets into money. With all we got from students, we financed the Yendu d’Espoir.
No generation missed the Yendu d’Espoir:
The “Yendu d’Espoir” mobilized all Ndiawdoune’s inhabitants. Children cheered up hosts and godfathers with citizen songs; which students did like and showed it by applauding strongly. Surely attracted by the sound, the village other children came also to attend the celebration in a great number. Parents and grandparents wanted also to bring their support by attending the ceremony. Consequently, one could see under the tarpaulin stand all generations, hand in hand, to give hope to the toddlers.
To conclude the activity, Action-Etudiant invited the children for a snack and shared a cocktail party with the parents and the kindergarten’s personnel. The ceremony ended at 07:30 pm.
The “Yendu d’Espoir” should have aroused a great hope from the toddlers, which will urge them to work hard to become university students.
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