Learning, Character meet @ Unilag-KUTH partnership

It was not mere co-incidence when the Keep Up The Hope (KUTH) Foundation's crusade for social rectitude in tertiary centres of learning rolled into the University of Lagos, colliding with the school's annual World Literacy Day rally.

KUTH Foundation had been given permission by the authorities to take its 'Walk Against Social Vices' campaign to Unilag on the same day as don and motivational speaker Dr. (Mrs.) Blessing Anyikwa and her other colleagues were preaching literacy for all.

That programme is run under the Faculty of Education's many projects and involves students in various sessions where the real goals of literacy are re-emphasized.

Of course, universities offer degree and other certificates to people who have been adjudged to be upright in 'character and learning.' Meanwhile, KUTH's creed is for the total education of the child, especially in character.

Hence, the foundation's involvement in this latest Unilag campaign, though entirely co-incidental, came in handy.

So, as they teachers assembled them in groups to address the finer details of literacy and education generally, KUTH was waiting to talk to them in their hostels, libraries, lecture halls and recreational facilities about society's expectations from their conduct in or out of campus.

KUTH Foundation, the not-for-profit, sans-religious, non-racial, philanthropy advocacy group, on this occasion encapsulated its message under four headings: 'Rape is Bad,' 'Indecent Dressing' ... leads to several other evils, 'Exam Malpractice is Evil,' and, 'Cultism is Deadly.'

Armed with bundles of fliers, scores of KUTH volunteers marched around all areas of activity around the campus with the messages, while resource persons and KUTH strategists lectured the students on the gains of being socially responsible citizens.

Founded in 1962, Unilag has built a legacy of excellence and has been instrumental in the production of top-level professionals and academics over these past 50 years but that would not have been possible without a foundation of scholarship and moral uprightness.

That is how KUTH got involved in this project – to advance the inculcation of the proper moral mores in the youth for a better tomorrow.

Indeed, KUTH program director Francis Chilaka who addressed journalists after the grand event pledged that the crusade had already been enlarged to include other social-issue areas while plans are afoot to similarly march into other campuses in the course of the New Year.