CULTIVATE SPIRIT OF VOLUNTARISM, NIMSA GRADUATES URGED

Professor Robert Kajobe (center) with the best performing students at the venue of graduation,

By Sunday Amandi

Arua city

Over 200 students graduated with diplomas and certificates in different disciplines from Nile Institute of Management studies, NIMSA, with calls for the graduates to be productive and innovative to be successful and useful to their communities.

The 7^th graduation that was held with the theme, harnessing innovations and creativity in training professional skills for the world of work enabled students from within and across borders to receive certificate and diploma in courses of social works, business administration among others.

Professor Robert Kajobe from Muni University, who represented Professor Anguma Simon Katrini as the guest of honor encourages the graduates to use the acquired skills to take the right responsibilities in the society,

“For the true value of education is not the paper, it’s about the responsibility and what you are going to create as a result of this skilling and training,” Professor Kajobe emphasized.

Jaffa Duku Muhammad, the chairperson for the board of directors of the institute calls the graduates to value voluntary work in order to get exposed for better opportunities,

“You need to cultivate the spirit of voluntarism, being able to go to the communities and render services and expect no financial reward immediately, this is an approach that has helped very many people to fit in to the community and also to fit in to the world of work,” Muhammad said.

Similarly, Boniface Candiga, the chairperson for governing council to keep integrity to be valuable to their communities,

“You carry a prestigious stamp of Excellency, you go and practice integrity and lift the community that natured you by adding value in them,” Candiga said.

Joan Irene James, who graduated with a Diploma in social works, acknowledges that, creativity is the right way to take to succeed after graduation,

“We need to be creative, so being a social worker should not only make me rely on what I did at school, I should go out there and be creative, you can start something small,” Joan acknowledged.

Nile Institute of Management Studies, NIMSA, founded in 2001 is a private tertiary Institution, accredited and certified by National council of Higher Education, Uganda Vocational and Technical Assessment Board, Ministry of Education and sports, Uganda National Examinations Board, and Uganda Association of private vocational institutions.

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