…Inaugurates Fresh Set Of 100 Healthy Living Ambassadors For Secondary Schools.
The First Lady of Anambra State, Mrs Nonye Soludo, has flagged off the second phase of the Healthy Living Organice Garden Programme for communities and secondary schools in the state.
Angel Network News (ANN) reports that
the event which was held in Awka, also saw the inauguration of Healthy Living Ambassadors who would head Healthy Living School Club activities in one hundred selected secondary schools in Anambra State.
The governor’s wife in her address explained that the Healthy Living Garden Programme is targeted at getting the students early in life, to embrace agriculture, imbibe hard work, and love charity, by recognizing the importance of maintaining a garden from where they would get common staple crops needed daily in the family.
Mrs. Soludo also spoke of the Pad Bank initiative launched two years ago in schools by her NGO, regretting that the schools have not maximized the gains of such initiative.
Inaugurating the school ambassadors, Mrs Soludo said that they have been carefully selected because of their capacities, appealing to the principals of the schools to lend consistent support to the Ambassadors.
She noted that it was really important to keep emphasizing that healthy living is a crucial way of life. Our relationship with the body will ultimately define what it gives back. If you feed it well, it gives you wellness. If you feed it badly, it gives you sickness.
The governor’s wife also explained that Healthy Living with Nonye Soludo is designed to give every student a platform to succeed, stating that each club member carries an identity of difference and that each member of the club must stick to its foundational norms, always.
Earlier in her address, the Chairman of Anambra State Post Primary Schools Service Commission (PPSSC), Professor Nkechi Ikediugwu, said that the launch of the initiatives by the governor’s wife speaks to her commitment to the welfare, growth and development of the Anambra child.
Acknowledging the immense benefits that can be derived from the initiatives, Ikediugwu said starting early to equip the students with such knowledge and ideologies will ensure that they grow into responsible and healthy adults.
She further expressed appreciation to the governor’s wife for the recruitment of blind teachers into the Commission, adding that the Commission today has 28 blind teachers who are teaching in schools in the state.
ANN gathered that the projects are all driven by the governor’s wife Healthy Living programme, with the vision of integrating a culture of healthy and purposeful lifestyle among the people.
In their separate remarks, the Commissioner for Health, Dr Afam Obidike, and the Commissioner for Local Government, Mr TonyCollins Nwabunwanne said that the initiatives of the governor’s wife were designed to touch lives from the grassroots, observing that with their meticulous implementation, a whole lot of things going wrong in the families and the society would be corrected.
Some of the school principals who received agricultural support, sanitary pads to start their Pad banks, and other essentials for their schools during the event expressed gratitude to Mrs Soludo and the Anambra State Government, promising to give their best to ensure the success of the initiatives.
