A particular artwork competitors sponsored by Lions Membership all over the world for teenagers in faculties and youth teams over the previous 30 years lately concluded with 12 12 months previous Isaac Favor Chinaza of Dynamic Complete Faculty, Ota, Ogun State sponsored by Lagos Egbeda Lions Membership , District 404B3 , capturing the primary place. Second prize went to Kreem Hamed, whereas Asuquo Divine got here third.
This 12 months's theme was 'Dare to Dream' and it gave kids aged 11 to 13 all over the place the chance to create posters expressing their imaginative and prescient for peace and galvanizing the world via artwork and creativity.
golf equipment started adopting faculties for sponsorship in September and all districts, D404A2, D404A3, D404A4, D404B2, D404B3 and D404B4, held their particular person district poster competitions.
District stage winners converged on Lagos for the finals, the place judges assessed the individuals based mostly on age, relevance and theme, originality, use of area, mastery of the theme, in addition to technical talent and skill to speak about their work.
In his welcome handle by A number of District Coordinator, MD 404 Nigeria, Lion Ibrahim Jide Bello stated: “Dare to Dream is about desires and visions of the youths. Dreaming isn’t just a hope or a want, it’s a path, a aim and an ambition. Reaching that dream is after all laborious work, so this 12 months we give the younger folks the duty to see how they’ll change the longer term. making the dream of a peaceable world a actuality.”
Bello stated the competitors would give youths the chance to rework their imaginative and prescient of peace into actuality and in addition assist them encourage the world via artwork and creativity.
“Our youth are stuffed with concepts ready to be remodeled, therefore our affiliation's choice to encourage youth within the discipline of artwork and creativity,” he stated.
Bello additional inspired the youth that “having a dream shouldn’t be sufficient except it’s translated into actuality via targets and techniques. That our youth stays targeted; there have to be steering and actions to allow them to attain their desires.”
A number of Council Chairman, MD 404, Asiwaju Ayobola Samuel, stated: “The thought is to ask the individuals to make their dream of a peaceable world a actuality. Nigeria has been collaborating on this competitors for years, however has by no means been fortunate sufficient to win the highest prize. I hope we will break the curse this 12 months.”
President of Abeokuta Concord Lions Membership, a famend visible arts instructor, Lion Badiru, who has taught for 35 years at each stage of training in Nigeria, stated: “Many youths don't have mentors, they don't have a journey they need to embark on, so it's vital that we dream, how large our dream is determines how far we will go. I need to problem the younger folks; the journey to stardom doesn’t occur via wishful pondering. Once you see somebody who excels, you must try to be like that particular person.”