This is for those that want an update on what’s going on in the campus of SOCA in Wasimi Orile. I observe that the school is generating tremendous interest and I am humbled by the tons of expressions of goodwill and support.
Indeed, many lucky children have been benefitting from attending the school, and that gives me joy beyond expression. The opportunity must be extended to many more. That is my sponsoring motivation for this regular update.
I am spending more time monitoring things in the school these days, challenged by the rising expectations of more people.
Today has been special.
Sound engineers from Lagos came to check out the state of the school’s musical instruments.
We also started some land-clearing for our new farm projects – a fish, vegetables and yam farms. The plan is to make the school significantly food sufficient within two years. The academy has the perfect environment for such farms. I cant wait to see them grow and become a reality.
We are keeping count of the variety of animals that are immediately and abundantly available in the environment, freeky roaming around the campus at different times. Aside the cattle and goats by Fulani herdsmen that have been living peacefully with the communities around Ewekoro Local Government Area for decades, there are also deers, rabbits, monkeys, squirrels, and grasscutters and others that villagers and even some students say are in the environment but that I have never personally seen.
There are many varieties of birds that I cannot identify, but they include sparrows, bats and owls. One stray owl was actually found today, trapped in one of the classrooms.
Academic work has already started in the school and today there was a meeting between teachers, farmers and coaches in the academy.
The coaches that will supervise the athletics, tennis and basketball academy programmes are planning their sports programmes to fut into the schools academic curriculum so that the ‘badly’ sought for 4 hours of sports time everyday is achieved.
Before now, football dominated the programmes.
I shall surely be keeping those interested in following the activities that engage me as I ‘retire’ into my passions, abreast of them.
The attached pictures are of the farm hands helping me with clearing, and of an owl held by one of them, an interesting young man who specialises in catching all kinds of snakes with his bare hands.
From the next session in September, the catchment of students will include s specific quota for young boys and girls with passion, skills and interest in Track, Basketball or Tennis.
Along with sports, there are the photography, dance, music, reading and arts centres within the school.
Parents should watch out and start the enrollment procedure early enough.
