"We are the world. We are the children. We're the ones to make a brighter day so lets start giving, ..." So goes the ever-inspiring song led by the late king of Pop, Michael Jackson, and other reknowned musicians. The theme of this particular historic song calls for empowerment and creation of opportunities to support aspirations and collective objectives.
Thoreau once said, " if you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them." To some of us, where to even get the requisite materials to start the foundation is a problem. But nevertheless, we never give up! We are unshakably and constantly optimistic and hopeful. After all, a hopeless man is as good as a corpse.
Empowerment and opportunities is what some of us need and crave for. I used to tell my friends that if I meet the president of Ghana and he asks me to make a wish, ... it would be the payment of my fees. Personally, i believe education is the greatest empowerment to humanity. it is an effective medium to transform families, societies, and countries. When I dash rarely worn or under-sized clothes to the deprived, help people in their personal endeavours, broaden the horizon of children through self-development programmes, I feel I can do more if empowered. Thus, when you see me biting my nails, it is not that I relish doing that, but it's because I'm yet to graduate from the university of anguish and fear.
Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah made a heavy statement some years back. To paraphrase him, he said people are thieves, prostitutes, etc not because they wanted to be so, but rather, their deliquent nature is triggered by the condition in society. Thus, to change them, the conditions must be changed!
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