As a bid to educate students on insurance, the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN) has donated Insurance textbook to students of Babs Fafunwa Millennium Senior High School and Babs Fafunwa Millennium Senior Grammar School, Ojodu, Ikeja, Lagos. The donation of the 60 copies of textbook was made at the two-day Citizen Journalism training organized by School Connect Magazine yesterday.
During the two-day training Citizen Journalism workshop w for students of the two schools which commenced yesterday, Oluwaseun and Helene Fawehinmi representatives of the CIIN stressed on the importance of Insurance to everyday living. The first speaker, Adejumo Oluwaseun said 'life is all about risk and as such, 'we all need to prepare for eventualities to avert risk.'
Futher, Oluwaseun said with education insurance, a student's education can still go on even when such student loses his or parents to eventualities like accident or sudden death.
As a way of catching the students young, the CIIN has been taking Insurance advocacy to secondary schools within and outside Lagos in order to give Insurance education and also to stimulate students interest in becoming students member of the CIIN. To make the advocacy more stronger, the CIIN has collaborated with School Connect Magazine, which provides Citizen Journalism training by heling students to take responsibility of reporting news happening in their school community.
The Editor of the School Connect Magazine, Olugbenga Adebiyi said the the School Connect Magazine came on board because there are many fantastic things happening in the school community that are not reported in conventional media and newspapers. So, in order to give schools a platform and the students opportunity to report school events and activities, School Connect was birthed to give students first-hand training. The Citizen Journalism (otherwise called the New Media is a situation, whereby citizens see the need to report news through the digital media and technologies like the mobile phones and the social media like: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc). School Connect Magazine started training students two years ago on Citizen Journalism, which was targeted at senior secondary school students from SS 1 and above.
The Citizen Journalism which is at is second phase now plans to reach all senior secondary schools students in both private and public schools in Lagos State and even outside the state. Through the CIIN partnership, Insurance advocacy would be spread further in schools and students will be able to be insurance advocates and become insurance professionals in the future even if they do not take insurance as a course initially.
At present, School Connect has trained about 200 students on Citizen Journalism and still will be training more students at the Government College Agege in the next two weeks.
