Accolades as Isolo Senior students carry out community service
By Sunday Ogundiran
The residents of Isolo Local Council Development Area (LCDA) have commended the students of Isolo Senior Secondary School for clearing the grasses and cleaning the community as a voluntary service.
According to the residents who spoke to ECHONEWS, the gesture by the students was a way of contributing to the development of the community in their own little capacity.
Led by the Assistant Director of Education, Mr. Olugbenga Awojumobi, the students on Thursday, the students moved round the vicinity of Ire Akari where the school is located to cut grass and sweep the streets.
The exercise termed corporate social responsibility (CSR) was carried out between 8:00am and 9am to sanitise the environment.
The principal, Mrs. Bolanle Dawodu who expressed joy over the humility and orderliness of the students, said the idea was born out of being responsible to the community where the students acquire knowledge and as a way to make the community and their immediate society feel their presence in the environment.
She added that she wanted her students to be morally and academically responsible in their way of life most especially to their society and in every environment they find themselves.
She declared that the sanitation exercise would continue and extend to every part of the community such as Health Center and the nearest police station.
The programme coordinator also commented: “It’s a thing of joy as our students were able to comport and adhere to the social responsibility call of the school in a mature way.
“The parents had already discussed this in our last parents-teachers forum. Precautionary measures were put in place concerning health hazard and disinfection.”
The Vice Principal, Mr. E. F. Oyemakin also stated that the school provided cutlass, tissue paper, brooms and waste bins used in cutting, cleaning, sweeping and collecting the refuse.
He concluded by saying: “It is good to lead by example, let the students know that as their dignity of labour.”
