SELFLESS SERVICES TO HUMANITY

Humanity refers collectively to all humans. It also refers to virtues that make people humans such as benevolence, love, selfless sacrifices, kindness, compassion, and many more. Caring more for what other people need and want rather than his or her own personal need is known as selflessness. It demands supreme sacrifice and devotion to a cause of one with a general heart, open-minded, noble and sensitive, and moreover, keen to help others. what makes these personalities human is generally their view of optimizing their productivity. They render services to the public, attending to their needs be it physical needs, emotional, psychological, medical needs, and so on. 

In society today, selfless services are rendered. The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)  Scheme has since inception contributed immensely to the development agenda of the nation. It has continued to satisfy the needs of the nation at the grassroots, state, and national levels, meeting vital manpower requirements and the overall objective of various Health and other critical sectors of our national economy. The Community Development Service (CDS) program of the Scheme is primarily aimed at harnessing the Skills of graduate youth corps members into an effective machinery for national development. Under this program, corps members are usually organized to work with local communities to promote and execute development projects as well as complement the activities of government at all levels in the stride for national development. In clear terms, NYSC presence in the rural communities across the country provides good opportunities to identify national development challenges and commit necessary resources to tackle them. This also underscores the philosophy behind the founding objective of the Scheme which seeks "to develop in the Nigerian youth's attitude of mind acquired through shared experience and suitable training which will make them more amenable to mobilization in the national interest." The current national effort to curb the spread of COVID-19 and effectively address the Pandemic is another clarion call for members of the Scheme. This explains the overwhelming response by youth corps members across the country as they consider their involvement as a patriotic and loyal service to Nigeria. Corps members especially during this pandemic have been really helpful as they render selfless services to the nation in creating awareness of the pandemic, production of hand sanitizers, jingles, etc. 

Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are agencies that render services such as mobilization of youths to clean the community, sensitization, creating awareness to the public on a particular thing, provision of educational facilities to rural areas, feeding the poor, creating of an entrepreneurial scheme for youth empowerment, provision of basic amenities in the society, openings for scholarships, and more. This organization is a voluntary establishment that rose up not minding the cost but with the aim of impacting lives, most times putting their lives at stake. More also, human right activist and philanthropist work basically at the individual level or collectively in groups of people coming together to achieve a set goal. They set out to rendering services to individuals by fighting for their fundamental human rights, feeding of the poor, providing shelter for them, sponsorship and scholarships etc without expecting to get anything in return. People render selfless services at different levels in numerous ways that make them humans. These selfless services don’t just make the individuals feel fulfilled but also foster peace and unity in the society and also the progress of a nation.

 

Written by:

BLESSING ELEOJO AMEH
Code No.: OS/20A/0356
Course: English and Literary Studies
Institution: Federal University Lokoja
State of Origin: Kogi