Dimapur, May 15 (MExN): Prodigals’ Home is offering a 15 extensive day certificate course on “Social Concern and Leadership”.
The concept of Certificate Course on Social Concern and Leadership emerged out of their own experiences and also the recommendations of students from various educational streams which the Home has hosted for practical internship, a press release from Prodigals’ Home stated.
“The organization strongly felt that orienting and training Theological Students as well as aspiring Social Workers on diverse social issues and leadership can snowball into bringing about a positive change in our churches in particular and society in general,” it added.
Prodigals’ Home manages programs/projects spanning across health, disability, rehabilitation, rural development and other socio-economic sectors. Each Program/Project is target oriented and therefore has to fulfill its objectives/activities within a specific period; this factor deprives exclusivity to these students/interns whereby comprehensive inputs gets affected.
While calling the certificate course a “sacrificial initiative” of the Organization, the Home admits that it can neither encompass all the issues comprehensively nor provide readymade solutions to the myriad issues confronting our society within the short course. “Our main objective is to orient our potential church and society leaders, through a tip of the iceberg, about our myriad social and relevant issues where they and the churches can play a key role in making our churches and our society more inclusive for every individual, regardless of one’s religious, social or economic background,” the Home enunciates.
Organization Director K. Ela terms the course “a humble beginning” in bridging the gaps in communication, networking, and partnership for a better society.
“We at Prodigals’ Home have rich experience, learnt numerous valuable lessons from fellow brothers and sisters we get to meet and associate with, in the course of our work,” she says before adding, “We are humbled and enriched by them. We are indeed grateful to them all for opening our hearts and our minds to the need of such a course.”
Insisting that much change can be brought about through effective leadership, Ela expresses home that the course will help find effective leaders who are able to understand and analyze the root causes of various problems in the society in totality, thereby bringing change.
The Organization started the Certificate Course back in May 2013 with 10 students and in 2016, the Home has so far registered 23 students.
