Shimbo Pastory This article was published in The Citizen Newspaper on 12th October, 2021. As the world markets ‘solutions to problems,’ several ways have been devised to make people customers as they develop a feeling that they dearly need such solutions. While those who experience problems are in the daily struggle to get them solved, … Read more
On the 11th of September every year the world celebrates the International First Aid day. This day allows a chance to examine the international and local uptake, growth and prospects in the field of Emergency Care and First aid. Though the concept ‘first aid’ is a familiar one, its content is indubitably not sufficiently known.
It a reasoned opinion that the world youth day should be the culmination of the effort invested throughout the year. This should also reflect in the respective jurisdictions, not mere paperwork, or stupendously written media fliers; but evidence of genuine tasks undertaken to help the society grow, and or to solve the problems that have persisted.
The first question we need to delve into is the nature of the problematic situation. Why do we use arms to resolve conflicts? Can we realistically end wars and silence the guns by 2020 as the AU’s Agenda 2063 looks forward to? Objectively, the reality of peace in the world today, which is indeed commonplace in literature, is still far from completion to a considerably great extent.
The celebration of a new beginning shoud not be a moment to celebrate passage of time, but rather of recalling and examining how we maximized the previous phase of the natural provision we call time.