EMPOWERMENT

REPORIENTATION


EMPOWERMENT


A knapsack sprayer, #5,000 plus free lunch is enough empowerment for a constituency: nothing empowers better than a full tummy, I guess. Our feeble hands are raised by their free lunch and in less than five hours the clouds of hunger begins to gather.


After making great sacrifices to the gods, so that we may bid poverty farewell, it keeps giving us warm welcome as it awaits us even before we get home, handling us cups of chilled juice for a fresh start. Maybe the gods are too busy to pacify poverty or we are not doing the rituals well. Surely, it is the latter. 


What we do is pruning. We prune poverty to create more branches rather than uproot its entirety. What many government organizations and the NGOs in this country do is no bigger than a joke, since their concealed goal is to make a name for themselves and not really to empower. They only want to show power NOT to give power to the underprivileged members.


A redefinition of goals is one major thing to do if we truly want to empower. Insight won't be made futile in the journey of empowerment. Rather than give #5,000 to two hundred people as empowerment, would it not break the prison of poverty to give #250,000 to four people? I am sure the  #250,000 will do little wonders in some businesses while the #5,000 will cook enough soup for the weekend. Obviously, a temporary help has been done with #5,000, it will only keep lack centimetres away.


I wish above all things that we have a rethink  and approach empowerment with a larger heart and bigger eyes.


... and for a better Nigeria, I will do better.



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