Education knocking the doors: a time to unlock the potential of many brothers and sisters of Somali region in Ethiopia
Education is not a charity rather a fundamental human right for all people irrespective of their sex, race, economic status which is the key to sustainable development, peace and stability among countries. In any society, the provision of education is a fundamental and basic for human resource development.
Educating a nation remains the most vital strategy for the development of the society throughout the developing world. However what I want to share the readers is how nowadays the people of Somali region in Ethiopia are waking up year after year, are ready to keep up this education opportunity that is standing in front of their doors every Saturdays and Sundays, because, the region were long behind the rest of the country when it comes the number of educated people graduated from the different colleges and universities of the country or even joining for many reasons, like socio-economic problem, distance of the universities to the region, criteria to join different colleges and universities and others who visited the environment of universities and comeback.
There were not universities in the region which award the students with degree level like never before. Thanks to Distance and Extension degree programs that Jigjiga and Haramaya Universities are giving a lot of brothers and sisters who didn't get them like this opportunities which I can say is waykusoo martee waxkaqabso, to unlock their potential and take the advantage this time, if the education came after them and saying please I did not come anyother thing rather to unlock your minds and hopes that you once locked and tell them if there is other people who were once what is called in local language ' Matric Quslanyaa' which means victims of secondary leaving certificate examination in recent memories.
Therefore, what ups and downs the human capital of the region faced when it comes to this tertiary education , are now striving to see they liberated from backward living, being educated, reached in good living standard, ensured democracy, can efficiently participate in the affairs of the country such like realizing the Growth and Transformational Plan (GTP) in the country as a whole and in the region particularly.
Let me tell you one story about me, the day get the result of Ethiopian higher education certificate examination and fulfilled the criteria needed to join Universities, one of my uncle said to me 'Adeer maad idlaysay waxbarashadii' before giving him a response I laughed more due to the word idlaysay, and said to yes I have, and I addes to him I will go university next month and he said to me, 'Ma waxbarasho kalaad sii wadi waar orod warqada qaadoo shaqa raadso' I don't know whether he thought the destination was there. By the way if I would have accepted my uncle's offer today Education would have knocked my door.
Abdiaziz Ali Hussein
MA Candidate, Haramaya University, Ethiopia
Email: abdiaziz-ali@hotmail.com
Education is not a charity rather a fundamental human right for all people irrespective of their sex, race, economic status which is the key to sustainable development, peace and stability among countries. In any society, the provision of education is a fundamental and basic for human resource development.
Educating a nation remains the most vital strategy for the development of the society throughout the developing world. However what I want to share the readers is how nowadays the people of Somali region in Ethiopia are waking up year after year, are ready to keep up this education opportunity that is standing in front of their doors every Saturdays and Sundays, because, the region were long behind the rest of the country when it comes the number of educated people graduated from the different colleges and universities of the country or even joining for many reasons, like socio-economic problem, distance of the universities to the region, criteria to join different colleges and universities and others who visited the environment of universities and comeback.
There were not universities in the region which award the students with degree level like never before. Thanks to Distance and Extension degree programs that Jigjiga and Haramaya Universities are giving a lot of brothers and sisters who didn't get them like this opportunities which I can say is waykusoo martee waxkaqabso, to unlock their potential and take the advantage this time, if the education came after them and saying please I did not come anyother thing rather to unlock your minds and hopes that you once locked and tell them if there is other people who were once what is called in local language ' Matric Quslanyaa' which means victims of secondary leaving certificate examination in recent memories.
Therefore, what ups and downs the human capital of the region faced when it comes to this tertiary education , are now striving to see they liberated from backward living, being educated, reached in good living standard, ensured democracy, can efficiently participate in the affairs of the country such like realizing the Growth and Transformational Plan (GTP) in the country as a whole and in the region particularly.
Let me tell you one story about me, the day get the result of Ethiopian higher education certificate examination and fulfilled the criteria needed to join Universities, one of my uncle said to me 'Adeer maad idlaysay waxbarashadii' before giving him a response I laughed more due to the word idlaysay, and said to yes I have, and I addes to him I will go university next month and he said to me, 'Ma waxbarasho kalaad sii wadi waar orod warqada qaadoo shaqa raadso' I don't know whether he thought the destination was there. By the way if I would have accepted my uncle's offer today Education would have knocked my door.
Abdiaziz Ali Hussein
MA Candidate, Haramaya University, Ethiopia
Email: abdiaziz-ali@hotmail.com
1 comment:
Being born in a society that has high expectations for the boy child, I found myself striving to learn everything that I came across. Within me a passion for success was always there, and I knew and believed, disregard resources are available or not. I learnt to learn outside the school environment, and such a predicament has horned in me priceless skills of intuition.
With all due humility, I am... a man of many abilities. More of what I can do is owing to my attitude: willing and able to learn. This has not only been a practice, but a philosophy from which I get inspired. In moments when I lacked money to fund my basic education I sought an opportunity to learn something new. Many are my skills, such as compiling news articles, analysis, reports, editing, writting stories and essays, web developer, software developer, I am proficient with Microsoft Office programs and the Internet
I am able to work well with others, communicate effectively with both the public and co-workers. I have experience in organizing and leading groups of people. I can multi-task, work independently, or with a team, entrepreneur, involved with many community outreach projects and so
To give you brief history of my country and myself, coming from war zone area, a country that has been in war for many years now (Somalia), for most of my childhood gunfire was a familiar resonance. There, children wake up to nature’s music,. Most of my friends myself included on the other side of the world were familiar with music. The music was not from mother nature, it was man made. From it we could tell if it was a bazooka oozing out pieces of stinging metal, that had blown up darkening dust from a house we would never see again.
I have a dream. To give a chance to my fellows not to go through the nightmare that I went through. A dream to break the vicious circle that has imprisoned most Somalis yet there are not walls around. My hope is to free myself so that I can free my friends. Free means education, economics, politics and guaranteed future. It means pursuing the channels that lead to these parameters.
Sincerely,
Saeed Mohamed
Co-ordinator
Somali Education Development in South Africa (SEDSA)
Johannesburg
P.S: Extracts from Saeed's profile for his university application
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