30/06/2018
Greetings to the Guest of Honour,
Wangulu community and all attending.
Today I am humbled to be with you
on this occasion of a dream come true, S-CBO Library. It is a journey that
started long before and today as the building stands before us, deep inside us
we are quenching a thirst of such a necessity that we have been missing around
for ages. And there has been an overwhelming support from the community that
nothing in our minds will stop the gradual continuation.
Saniaga Community Based
Organization was out of the need to join the many Self Help Groups registered
as Saniaga by the ministry of Labour, Social security and Services. We all know
that Saniaga is among the great fore fathers who founded the larger Maragoli
people we are descendants to. We are therefore proud to gather here as one
family. If you are not directly a descendant then you greatly relate to Saniaga
through family, relatives, friends and association. The name therefore is power
among us. That is why we cannot see such a worthy inheritance unexploited.
Our action as a CBO is to attain
a RESOURCE CENTRE in this community where there is a community library, a
community hall, a computer center and importantly, a community museum. We are
on the track because today one key action is being implemented – the Library.
And the one great purpose as to
why it was Wangulu and not elsewhere to site the Resource Centre is because
S-CBO was given birth to with an aim of collecting, preserving, disseminating
and archiving pedigree information to facilitate positive development in the
community. We shall not veer off this purpose till all oral history is
archived, all our elders have been reached, all traditional practices have been
archived, all library users are involved and taught the very things, and
importantly, till we come up as many literature materials in Maragoli as
possible. That is why it was Wangulu. And we believe that it is rich with
information we need.
The Library before you is going
to complement the educational facilities around and it shall go a step ahead to
offer auxiliary services that a community needs information on. We are open to
ideas and ready to work together on issues that will empower this community. We
will not light a lamp and then put it under the bed. You will find us in
advocacy, motivational talks, support services and importantly offer role model
volunteer and leadership practices worth to be adopted elsewhere.
In quick take off, the Library is
going to have a local overseer committee to work with S-SCBO derived from all
expertise starting from religious to educational to welfare institutions. They
shall offer guidance, volunteer efforts and advice the S-CBO management
committee on continuum programs.
To the community, the Library is
being opened today to offer reading services. Writers and artists will have an
ambient place to bring out their talents and words. Elders and the young will
meet in for talks, guidance and storytelling. Information lovers will find a
daily newspaper and magazines to update themselves. And people from far shall
come to copy us. That is our hope.
More about the passion we have
for information and best community engagements shall be shared as we keep interacting
and working together. It is in this conclusion that I say THANK YOU to
everyone.
Sincerely,
Lung’afa Patrick
S-CBO Programs Director.
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