ILG Welcome Ceremony for new Students
The Institute of Leadership and Good Governance 2nd year co-curricular activity club members organized a fun-filled and colorful welcoming ceremony for the new students who joined the Institute in 2011 academic year. The main purpose of the ceremony was to introduce the new students to their teachers and senior students as well as to make them familiar with the institute.
In the ceremony, Mulugeta Ruot, Representative of the students has made a welcoming speech. In his welcoming speech he said the ILG first batch students came from different regions and different cultural backgrounds and ways of life and the same is true to the second batch of students.
He said
“We have different cultural values and professional competencies. But we have lack of leadership competency that helps us to bring change in our country. That is why we joined this institute”
He also said Leadership has something to do with relationship i.e. the relationship we have among ourselves, with the institute and the university community. This ceremony was organized to bring this relationship. And I believe from now on our relationship, which is based on respect and harmony, with our instructors and with each other starts”.
Dr.Waqgari Negari, Director of the Institute thanked the new students for joining the university and appreciates the club members for organizing such an event.
Dr. Waqgari added,
“The students have organized this program by themselves and this is a unity that I have seen from this batch. In other word this batch is sharing vision which is set for Ethiopia i.e. becoming a middle income nation in ten to fifteen years time."
" This is a way of sharing the vision and transferring good ideas to the new students.The students can learn something important from this event. It is not organized for the sake of coming together. The purpose is to assure that we all are in the same box,” said Dr. Waqgari.
During the ceremony a short presentation which showed students who came from different regions welcome the new students in different Ethiopian language other than their mother tongue was displayed.
Two senior female students also shared their campus life experience. They also gave necessary information for students especially for female students that help them adapt to the new environment. Poems, short stories, games and contest were part of the ceremony.