Nigeria: Meet the 42-year-old woman in JSS 1--Education has no age limit

 

42-year-old Mrs. Juliana Godwin has returned to school and is now a JSSI student of Junior Secondary School, Gosa, Abuja. Despite all odds, Juliana has proven that education has no age limit. According to her story, Mrs. Godwin, is from Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State and had dropped out of school in 1983 due to lack of funds. 

“I had to leave for Jos in 1983, since my father could no longer sponsor my education to secondary school because he had no money. While I was with my cousin, I enrolled in a tailoring shop to learn  dress making. I completed it within a year and  six months. In 2003, I was able to save some money from water hawking. I started pepper and tomato business with N1,000 from the savings. I also went into corn roasting business, but my husband stopped me from the business in 2007,” she told Vanguard. 

INDIA: Meet 8-Year-Old ‘Human Calendar’ from Mumbai

Aryan Parab-8 from Mumbai India has been dubbed the "Human Calendar."  Looking just like a regular eight-year-old kid at first glance; Aryan can rattle off dates from now till 2068. Odd! but Amazing! 

He’s a mathematical genius with superhuman computational skills. It isn't surprising where and how Aryan picked up such brain and developed it. Little Mr. Parab's parents work as software engineers. They discovered his unique skill earlier this year when he was talking about birthdays and found that he could accurately predict the days of his friends’ birthdays several years into the future. 

Every thing comes with a cost and Aryan's is not an exception. Aryan’s Mother-Rupali Parab said: “My telephone bill is going through the roof because he keeps reminding me every day when somebody has a birthday and gets me to call them.  He is a ready reckoner of dates, particularly those related to national leaders and national events. He remembers the birthdays of every single classmate, relative, friend and neighbour. The other day he pestered me to greet a casual acquaintance over the phone, and I yielded. She was so happy I remembered her birthday that we struck a bond over that conversation.”

TEARS of Pain or Joy: 'Day of Gratitude' at Shandong primary school stirs up some REALLY intense emotions

Lots weeping and out of control wailing at a primary school in Liaochang, Shandong province, as a motivational speaker waxed poetic about having gratitude for parents and teachers, as well as bettering oneself.

It was a mixture of tears and touching moments and very difficult to tell if these tears are of pains or joy.

LOL!  Kids in their on world. sweet! 

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Education in the Bush

                  

The African Wildlife Foundation is hoping to do some tricky medicine on the world at large, to stop the planet's lungs from collapsing.

The organization's CEO , Patrick Bergin says, "If you think of the world as having two lungs, the Amazon rainforest is one lung, and the Congo Basin forest is the second. It's a place everyone should be concerned about in a time of climate change." 

Over the next decade, the African Wildlife Foundation is building 15 conservation-themed primary schools in some of Africa's most remote regions that are highly strategic from an environmental standpoint. The schools are designed to be state-of-the-art, built with attractive faculty housing that will hopefully lure some of Africa's best teachers.

Bergin notes that when it comes to education in Africa, resources go first to schools in the city, then to those in the surrounding towns. "Kids that live in the Bush are likely to be deeply disadvantaged," he says.

It is precisely that segment, he argues, that needs access to good schooling to protect the future of the continent.

Construction has already begun on the first school in Ilima, an extremely isolated village in the Democratic Republic of Congo that sits on the corridor between two protected areas.  Getting there involves a two-day motorized canoe trip from Kinshasa, followed by a five-hour motorcycle ride. What that means is that getting materials in and out of the area can prove troublesome.

Architectural firm Mass Design Group has partnered with the African Wildlife Foundation to build the schools. It was imperative that the designers used locally sourced materials. "If there's a need to repair or maintain the school 45 years down the road, the community has to be able to do it without depending on materials like steel or cement, which would be hard to locate," says Andrew Brose, the project manager.

(CNN reports)

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