At 54, Kanayo O Kanayo unveils KOKMA
The veteran actor and UN ambassador
of peace said that mentoring youths in all facets of life has been his long
term goal and he is happy that he has officially unveiled the program.
kanayo-Speaking about the event, the Imo State-born veteran actor said, “This
project was due to be unveiled on March 1, 2012 which was my birthday.
But
because it fell on the same day
Chief Odimegwu Ojukwu was to be buried, I
decided to postpone it. That is why we have decided to officially unveil the
project today. I have always had this dream of giving back to my society and I
want to do so through mentoring of the young ones in our society today. I
decided to do a thing of this nature due to what I have observed in our society
today. There is a wide gap between what we had then as youths and what is
obtained in our youths of today. I have once been a youth and I know what it
takes. I want our youths to know that they can be whatever they wish to be in
life through sheer determination, and they should not allow anything to sway
them. This academy is coming to educate the youths to enable them discover
their talents and harvest them. It is time our youths started looking for ways
to improve our society instead of saying negative things about the society. It
is not going to be a formal school. We have assembled a team which includes all
areas of life and we will be going to public schools to enlighten the youths.
It is going to be a face-to-face approach.”
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