TWO SELL COMMUNITY TEAMS COMPLETED THEIR TRAINING.

​Jos and Bauchi Community Team of facilitators have concluded the Facilitators training of SELL Programme. The training took place in the month of October 2015, at the Youth Formation Centre Bauchi with a total number of 12 participants present. The low turnout was due to the fact that, most of the participants were workers and students. The students resumed schools a week before the date of the training while the workers were engaged in their places of work. The facilitators; Moses Alokpa, Maria Dagogot and Beji Jibe found it a challenge working with such a small number of participants, knowing that both teams had over 12 participants each.  Challenging as the situation was, we did our best and the participants were quite engaging, it was nice working with them. In the cause of the training, three units of SELL were explored and these include; Wisdom of Traditions, Community Building and Self Awareness.
Here are some of the comments from the trainees, (all comments are related to the units that were explored at the training);

• Lucy said she is amused at the wealth of wisdom embedded in our cultures.
• The challenge of accepting diverse cultures and practices is what William says he will struggle with.
• I cannot change the inevitable except my attitude says Maccolins.
• Being aware of the changes in our culture from our ancestors to date, says Mado.
• Having respect for other peoples culture – Habila and Nancy.
• Awareness of the spiritualities of our great/ grand/parents. - Matthew
• Knowing more about our Identity and culture – Dorcas
• The challenge of owning my spirituality and do an evaluation of it says Clifford
• Choji said that we all have inherited our spirituality.

Other participants also made the following comments;

• The importance of speaking our dialects cannot be over emphasized – Emmanuel
• Where wisdom resides and how she is transmitted to us. –Ritmua

And Clifford observed that; most religions have similar sacred signs and symbols.
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Maria Dagogot,
SELL Communication Desk officer