Award Winning Category

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Entrepreneurship

Our first thought on entrepreneurship is a successful business. Well, we are not far off. Entrepreneurship in short is identifying an opportunity and making things happen!

An entrepreneur in this case, sets up a business taking on risks in the hope of making profit. In the process, they follow their passion and perfect their entrepreneurial skills. The end result is new products and ideas into the market, creation of wealth, employment opportunities, improvement of their country’s economy, as well as improved living standards.

In short, entrepreneurs build a nation!

Media Practitioners

Media means mass communication while practitioners are people engaged in a profession. Media practitioners therefore, are people involved in writing and transmitting news or information to the public.

They are the voice of the public and less privileged. You want to tell a story? They help you. If you need a shortcut to sending a message to the ‘president’, they are the right people. If you want to hear people’s stories instead or know your country’s whereabouts even international, look no further.

Their curious and creative minds were born to give nothing but factual information. These people can either build or break your brand. They are of uttermost importance to us.

Leadership

Who is a leader, and what makes them so great? He or she is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. They possess courage, for tough decision making and compassion for their people so as to gain trust. Leadership involves motivating a group of people, with the aim of working towards achieving a certain goal.

The mentioned descriptions happen when there is balance between business, foresight, performance and character. It takes one with focus, determination, a vision and ability to bring about cooperation in a team, to be a leader.

Without this category, no one would receive an award. However, this belongs to the one with exceptional leadership qualities.

HUMAN RIGHT ACTIVITIES

“Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status” , is what most people would say. These rights include the rights to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and education, and many more. For decades people have come up with actions or approaches that they have used if they see injustice or if they don’t believe a policy is fair.These activities involves simple methods that people use to indicate what they feel. Debating issues, organizing cultural events, writing letters, designing banners and so on.

Writing songs, or a music and plays is what people have been doing to express their feelings. According to many making banners and staging demonstrations outside local companies to protest about pollution, outsourcing jobs, labor rights has been one of the aspect to air their grievances, Creating posters or leaflets about their issues, and handing them out or put them up in public places has also played a critical role among the communities.

According to research others say when you describe problems you are facing you cannot say bluntly unless you make your own video or organize a theatrical production on human rights theme, not only that but writing articles for local or national paper or asking the local radio/ TV station for an interview will be the perfect way of addressing issues on human rights without getting your fingers burnt.

street theatre, a protest march , petitions have many different aims like , raising awareness of an issue , attracting others to a cause getting media to talk and showing those in power that people are watching.

ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY

Environmental advocacy involves presenting information on nature and environmental issues that is decidedly opinionated and encourages its audience to adopt more environmentally sensitive attitudes, often more bio centric world views. It is all about influencing people, policies, structures and systems in order to bring about change.

As experts and scientist would say the issue of environmental awareness is one that has plagued our country for centuries therefore environmental advocacy is a commendable goal. In addition Environmental advocacy protects the public and planet from environmental hazards by lobbing for environmental legislation, working with the media, organizing environmental events, recruiting members and fundraising.

The focus could also be on human use of nature, such as regional or urban planning. it also include more personal advocacy , such as writing letters to the editor , going to community meetings and participating in a protest.

There is no doubt that advocacy is an important aspect of environmental protection which addresses severe problems arising from environmental mismanagement.Besidesthat we live in earth planet, and we know without trees, plants, water, etc. we can’t make it. Furthermore we use the environmental resources like air, land and water to meet our needs. While meeting the ever- growing needs , we put pressure on the environment and when the pressure exceeds the carrying capacity of the environment to repair or replace itself , it creates serious problems of environmental degradation . If we use any environmental resource such as ground water beyond its limit of replacement we may lose it forever. Thus environmental protection and advocacy comes to play.

EDUCATIONIST

According to many authors and philosophers an educationist is a specialist in the theory of education hence an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch learning. This is a person who is a self- motivated, underrated by low pay, system constraints, or political minefields. Not only do they act as advocates who serve the best interest of students in any educational setting by facilitating student’s natural desire to discover and contribute the world they live in , but also seek to educate mind, body and soul , their own and those around them.

They generally serve as educational consultants as they possess sound knowledge of curriculum development, teacher training and understanding of institutional developments.

It is not an exaggeration to say that educationist have contributed a lot in promoting education and changing young people’s lives. In addition to this attributes, they have played an extraordinary part in the lives of not only children but adults as well. They involve themselves in moulding students into responsible citizens of their country.