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A Lesson from Alex Onyia: Why Community Development Must be a National Priority

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I woke up one morning, stretched lazily on my bed, and reached for my phone like most of us do.  Scrolling through my timeline on X (formerly Twitter), I stumbled upon a post by Alex Onyia, a name that had become familiar to me ever since I came across his Educare Academy. His tweet stopped me in my tracks: “We will be remodeling hundreds of classrooms and toilets, starting with schools in remote villages in the South East. It will be one classroom and toilet per chosen school at first. That’s my plan with @gaiuschibueze and others that may wish to participate. Nothing so fancy but will be extremely conducive for learning for the children. I am very particular about school toilets.It’s core for students’ hygiene and has been neglected for a very long time. We need to restore hygiene in our public schools. I read the tweet again. And then once more. This was different. In a country where citizens are conditioned to expect little from their leaders and even less from their fellow cou...