The Volunteer Corps arm of the Rochas Foundation is organizing a two day conference scheduled to hold on the 21st and 22nd of September 2012 with the theme: Enhancing Quality Education Through Leadership and Volunteerism, ‘The New Idea’in Owerri, Nigeria. This event which was earlier scheduled to take place in Accra, Ghana is focused on reaching out to the rest of Africa with the establishment of comprehensively free colleges to cater for less privileged children.
The first day of the conference is also scheduled for the graduation ceremony of two sets of graduates from the Owerri and Ogboko free Rochas Foundation colleges while day 2 of the conference will be the main full day when international guest speakers, a former African president and the Nigeria’s Minister of Education is expected to attend.
The conference is an initiative of the Director General of the Rochas Foundation Ms Uloma Rochas and the eminent Nigerians who make up the Volunteer Corps of the foundation.
The conference is one way to orientate and establish a culture of volunteerism amongst Africans towards great causes such as education. It is also to be a call to raise more volunteers to take the foundation’s vision to greater height.
The major aftermath of this Volunteers’ conference will be to reach out to the rest of Africa starting by establishing a Rochas Foundation College in Kenya, East Africa to cater for the education of the less privileged children.
This conference is open for sponsorship from well meaning Africans and organizations as it introduces Volunteerism and Leadership as the ‘New Idea’ towards enhancing quality education.
