I was class prefect in primary five and six and a compound over-seer at Oda Wesley Primary School from 1995-1996
I became the assistant class prefect in JSS One, then rose the class prefect position in JSS Two and Three respectively and a sectional leader/house prefect in my final year, at Oda Wesley JSS from 1997-1999.
I became an assistant class prefect for two academic terms at Koforidua Sec/Tech School in the 2000-2001 academic year.
I then became a class prefect from secondary school form one to first term form three at Akim Swedru secondary School. I rose to the position of Head Prefect, became a member of my school’s SRC and subsequently got elected as a Regional Trustee of the Eastern Regional Students’ Representative Council (ERSRC). I was the President of my school’s branch of the National Union of Presbyterian Students of Ghana at Akim Swedru Secondary School in the 2002-2003 academic year.
Currently, I am the Class Rep. of the first year students noon session of the African University College of Communications (AUCC). I am also the Domestic Projects Coordinator of the Journalists for Human Rights Chapter of AUCC.
I am also the Regional Coordinator for Programmes & Administration of the ERSRC and the General Secretary of the Conference of Heads of all Regional SRCs. I am also the ERSRC’S Representative on the Federation of Youth Associations of Ghana (FEDYAG) Eastern Regional Branch.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
AUTHOBIOGRAPHY OF YIRENKYI
THE BOY IN HIS YESTERDAYS
Yirenkyi Opare – Akuffo was born on the 11th day of March, 1984 to Akuapem parents, Nana Kwaku Opare - Akuffo and Juliet Akua Obiribea Asante as father and mother respectively, from Akropong – Akuapem and Mamfe-Akuapem respectively in the eastern region of Ghana.
I had a very humble beginning starting from the Local Authority (L.A) nursery school at Suhum also in the eastern region where I stayed in that department for only six months and was transferred to Wamfie in the Brong Ahafo Region to join my father and my step-mother. As a child I was particularly interested in sports especially football but due to ill-health I had to forego my ambition of becoming a great football star.
When I got to class one, my father traveled to Nigeria and my step-mother sought transfer to her home town, a village called Anamase in the eastern region. My step-mother was taken ill short after our arrival in the village and my father also met a lot of misfortunes in Nigeria. Life became so difficult for me and my siblings and the future was so bleak for us. All this while I was just seven years old. But I never lost hope as I had faith in God. And it was the timely intervention of my grand mother that saw my self and my siblings back in school again.
My father returned from Nigeria three years later and we moved from Anamase to Akim Oda. In a new community, and a town for that matter I could not find my bearings until some months. At the Birim LA primary school I became the main topic for discussion as a boy from the village, I settled so fast and begun to dictate the academic terms of my class thus class four. Unfortunately, the school was just to see only one year of me as I was transferred to another school, Oda Wesley Primary school.
In my new school my academic prowess began to show as I was nominated class prefect of my class thus class five three weeks after reporting. My interest in extra curricular activities saw me joining the drama troop. That same year my school joined other Methodist schools in the district and in fact Ghana to celebrate John Wesley Day. My school was asked to perform a play depicting the calling of John Wesley-the founder of Methodism. I was given the responsibility of acting the role of John Wesley. With my quest to make an impact everywhere I find my self, I acted it so well that I was quickly called John Wesley even by The Reverend Ministers right after the programme.
In primary six, I was nominated by my teachers for the post of compound over-seer a position I handled to the admiration of all my teachers. I also became the overall second best student that same academic year thus the 1995-1996 academic year. I graduated to Oda Wesley Junior Secondary School (JSS) now Junior High School (JHS). There we were asked to write an entrance examination, and yet again I came out as the third best student out of 150 applicants. After two weeks in JSS/JHS 1 I was elected the assistant class prefect. In JSS/JHS 2, I was unanimously elected the class prefect due to my hard work and the desire of always making an impact and serving as role model to my colleagues. It was therefore no surprise when I was elected house prefect/sectional leader in my final year while I was still the class prefect. Yet again my academic prowess showed when I was the joint best student of my school after the release of the results of the 1999 Basic Education Certificate Examinations.
I gained admission to Koforidua Secondary/Technical School in 2000 to purse General Arts. As fate will have it, the long and icy hands of misfortune caught up with me once again as my father lost his job. This made it impossible for me to pay my school fees and as a result spent only two academic terms in the school. I then went to stay at home with the idea that I have become a school drop out and my dreams and aspirations shattered. It air worth noting that even with my short stay at Koforidua Secondary/Technical School, I was the assistant class prefect and a member of the school’s drama troop. I was also part of the contingent that represented my school and won the 43rd Independence Day March Past Award in the Eastern Region.
Lady luck however smiled on me the following academic year as my grand father secured a scholarship for me. This enabled me to get back to school again, however to repeat the class and in a different school-Akim Swedru Secondary School (AKISSS) in 2001. I immediately announced my presence in the school as soon as I was admitted by contesting in the then weekly debate organized by the Junior Graphic and won the first prize. That made me the toast of both teachers and students and was immediately elected the class prefect. Few weeks later, I led a team of first years as a Principal Speaker in a debate contest against the second years and won handsomely. I was then given the huge responsibility of leading my school’s debate team into challenging the best debating school in the Birim South Distict now Birim Central Municipality, Oda Secondary School. My resolve to always be among the best if not the best, and the desire to always make an impact motivated me into the battle. This time around, the status-quo changed and we emerged the victors. It is also worth mentioning the record I set in the in the school and still hold. I came out tops for two unprecedented academic years only dropping to the third position in my final year.
In my third year, I had to resign as the class prefect because I was elected the head prefect or school prefect and by default became an executive member of the students’ representative council. I was also elected the President of the National Union of Presbyterian Students’ of Ghana (NUPS-G) branch in my school. The student activism in me wouldn’t let me rest until I contested and won emphatically as the first Zone Five Trustee of the Eastern Regional Students’ representative Council (ERSRC) with eleven secondary schools under my jurisdiction all in the 2002-2003 academic year. I also led my school’s team into a constitutional week celebration quiz organized by the District Directorate of the National Commission on Civic Education of the Birim South Disrict Assembly now the Birim Central Municipality for all the seven secondary schools now senior high schools which my school came out tops.
I taught as a pupil teacher after secondary school at Mawuli International School at Akim Oda from September 2003 to May 2004. There again my leadership instincts showed as I was nominated to act as the secretary of Parent-Teacher Association (PTA). I was nominated as the staff secretary and as the head of the examinations committee.
My bid to excel in communication motivated me to enroll at NIIT in 2004 to study computer networking since I believe communication and Information Technology go hand-in-hand. I graduated in 2006 with an Honors Diploma in Network Engineering.
For me, I have always maintained that position is not an end but indeed a means to an end.
THE BOY IN HIS TODAYS
My desire to cause a positive change in the lives of students in Ghana and the eastern Region in particular sent me back to the region in August 2007 to contest the post of Regional Coordinator in charge of Programmes & Administration which I won convincingly. Barely two and a half months later I was unanimously elected the General Secretary of the Conference of Heads of all Regional SRCs. By dint of the fact that I am the Regional Coordinator of ERSRC, I represent the ERSRC on the Federation of Youth Associations of Ghana (FEDYAG). I was a member of the team that represented all Regional SRCs at the 41st National Congress of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) in August last year at the University of Education, Winneba. This I did in my position as Regional Coordinator-Programmes & Administration.
As a student of the African University College of Communications (AUCC) where I have enrolled to pursue a two-year diploma in communications, I have equally paid my dues as a student in activism. In just two weeks of admission, I was unanimously nominated as the class representative a position I am still holding. Just a little over one month after my admission, I was identified by the Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) a club in the school and subsequently nominated to the position of Domestic Projects Coordinator. A position I have held till now and have discharged my duties effectively and efficiently. I was also identified to be a member of the committee that drafted the constitution of JHR. This I did with the support of people like Henry Marbell as the chairman, Dela Odoo a member, Susuana Ago as the secretary and Fiifi Botchway also a member. The work was done within three weeks. People both internally and externally including Mr. Kofi Attoh, an Accra based Lawyer and a Lecturer of AUCC has described the constitution as one of the best he has seen.
I have fairly represented AUCC on several students’ platforms including the Ghana Union of Professional Students (GUPS) re-union night at NAFTI in Accra, the GUPS central committee meeting at the Trans Africa College also in Accra and the Emergency NUGS congress at the University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast in the Central Region of Ghana. Also worthy of note is that I was part of the first year debate team that beat the second years’ in a debate competition during the “Akwaaba Week” celebration to formally welcome the freshers into the university fraternity. I was also a member of AUCC’S debate team that trashed JAYEE Institute during the SRC’S Women’s Week celebration of the former.
I have participated in some club activities. These clubs include the Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) and the Institute of Public Relations (IPR) AUCC Chapter though I am yet to join the later.
I was a member of the students’ delegation which attended the funeral of the late Phidelia Alornyeku a student of AUCC who died after a short illness.
MY TOMORROW
I stand at the bank of the river and shout “floret” “floret” for the today I see shall be seen no more. What I welcome is my tomorrow and with a beam of smile, I embrace it with all the goodness it brings. I also say when you dream, dream big. For the dream may come true.
Yirenkyi Opare - Akuffo
Yirenkyi believes the future is today’s contribution and that what one does in future is only the completion of what one has started yesterday. This conviction has necessitated why I believe I am going to continue with my student’s service. I wish to cease the opportunity to state here that I am neither an opportunist nor seeking my selfish desire, but partisan I only desire to cause a positive change wherever I find my self and to make a strong impact as well as be a source of inspiration and motivation to others...
My greatest desire is to become a communication expert in human rights reporting, an international lawyer, and work with any international organization that is into human rights issues. I wish also to be a great and vibrant politician to continue causing positive change in people’s lives.
Personal Ideologies: Personally I believe that the African is his own enemy as a result of the number of coup de tars which only retard development and progress. But I also do believe Africa’s problems have been blown out of proportion and that we, are just like other people, on the earth surface. Every country and continent has challenges. Those challenges of the African continent could be solved by the very Africans and that the Brotonwood societies are only helping us to compound our challenges whiles they whitewash their own. I am a socialist and do believe there should be an equal access to national assets and worth.
Yirenkyi Opare – Akuffo was born on the 11th day of March, 1984 to Akuapem parents, Nana Kwaku Opare - Akuffo and Juliet Akua Obiribea Asante as father and mother respectively, from Akropong – Akuapem and Mamfe-Akuapem respectively in the eastern region of Ghana.
I had a very humble beginning starting from the Local Authority (L.A) nursery school at Suhum also in the eastern region where I stayed in that department for only six months and was transferred to Wamfie in the Brong Ahafo Region to join my father and my step-mother. As a child I was particularly interested in sports especially football but due to ill-health I had to forego my ambition of becoming a great football star.
When I got to class one, my father traveled to Nigeria and my step-mother sought transfer to her home town, a village called Anamase in the eastern region. My step-mother was taken ill short after our arrival in the village and my father also met a lot of misfortunes in Nigeria. Life became so difficult for me and my siblings and the future was so bleak for us. All this while I was just seven years old. But I never lost hope as I had faith in God. And it was the timely intervention of my grand mother that saw my self and my siblings back in school again.
My father returned from Nigeria three years later and we moved from Anamase to Akim Oda. In a new community, and a town for that matter I could not find my bearings until some months. At the Birim LA primary school I became the main topic for discussion as a boy from the village, I settled so fast and begun to dictate the academic terms of my class thus class four. Unfortunately, the school was just to see only one year of me as I was transferred to another school, Oda Wesley Primary school.
In my new school my academic prowess began to show as I was nominated class prefect of my class thus class five three weeks after reporting. My interest in extra curricular activities saw me joining the drama troop. That same year my school joined other Methodist schools in the district and in fact Ghana to celebrate John Wesley Day. My school was asked to perform a play depicting the calling of John Wesley-the founder of Methodism. I was given the responsibility of acting the role of John Wesley. With my quest to make an impact everywhere I find my self, I acted it so well that I was quickly called John Wesley even by The Reverend Ministers right after the programme.
In primary six, I was nominated by my teachers for the post of compound over-seer a position I handled to the admiration of all my teachers. I also became the overall second best student that same academic year thus the 1995-1996 academic year. I graduated to Oda Wesley Junior Secondary School (JSS) now Junior High School (JHS). There we were asked to write an entrance examination, and yet again I came out as the third best student out of 150 applicants. After two weeks in JSS/JHS 1 I was elected the assistant class prefect. In JSS/JHS 2, I was unanimously elected the class prefect due to my hard work and the desire of always making an impact and serving as role model to my colleagues. It was therefore no surprise when I was elected house prefect/sectional leader in my final year while I was still the class prefect. Yet again my academic prowess showed when I was the joint best student of my school after the release of the results of the 1999 Basic Education Certificate Examinations.
I gained admission to Koforidua Secondary/Technical School in 2000 to purse General Arts. As fate will have it, the long and icy hands of misfortune caught up with me once again as my father lost his job. This made it impossible for me to pay my school fees and as a result spent only two academic terms in the school. I then went to stay at home with the idea that I have become a school drop out and my dreams and aspirations shattered. It air worth noting that even with my short stay at Koforidua Secondary/Technical School, I was the assistant class prefect and a member of the school’s drama troop. I was also part of the contingent that represented my school and won the 43rd Independence Day March Past Award in the Eastern Region.
Lady luck however smiled on me the following academic year as my grand father secured a scholarship for me. This enabled me to get back to school again, however to repeat the class and in a different school-Akim Swedru Secondary School (AKISSS) in 2001. I immediately announced my presence in the school as soon as I was admitted by contesting in the then weekly debate organized by the Junior Graphic and won the first prize. That made me the toast of both teachers and students and was immediately elected the class prefect. Few weeks later, I led a team of first years as a Principal Speaker in a debate contest against the second years and won handsomely. I was then given the huge responsibility of leading my school’s debate team into challenging the best debating school in the Birim South Distict now Birim Central Municipality, Oda Secondary School. My resolve to always be among the best if not the best, and the desire to always make an impact motivated me into the battle. This time around, the status-quo changed and we emerged the victors. It is also worth mentioning the record I set in the in the school and still hold. I came out tops for two unprecedented academic years only dropping to the third position in my final year.
In my third year, I had to resign as the class prefect because I was elected the head prefect or school prefect and by default became an executive member of the students’ representative council. I was also elected the President of the National Union of Presbyterian Students’ of Ghana (NUPS-G) branch in my school. The student activism in me wouldn’t let me rest until I contested and won emphatically as the first Zone Five Trustee of the Eastern Regional Students’ representative Council (ERSRC) with eleven secondary schools under my jurisdiction all in the 2002-2003 academic year. I also led my school’s team into a constitutional week celebration quiz organized by the District Directorate of the National Commission on Civic Education of the Birim South Disrict Assembly now the Birim Central Municipality for all the seven secondary schools now senior high schools which my school came out tops.
I taught as a pupil teacher after secondary school at Mawuli International School at Akim Oda from September 2003 to May 2004. There again my leadership instincts showed as I was nominated to act as the secretary of Parent-Teacher Association (PTA). I was nominated as the staff secretary and as the head of the examinations committee.
My bid to excel in communication motivated me to enroll at NIIT in 2004 to study computer networking since I believe communication and Information Technology go hand-in-hand. I graduated in 2006 with an Honors Diploma in Network Engineering.
For me, I have always maintained that position is not an end but indeed a means to an end.
THE BOY IN HIS TODAYS
My desire to cause a positive change in the lives of students in Ghana and the eastern Region in particular sent me back to the region in August 2007 to contest the post of Regional Coordinator in charge of Programmes & Administration which I won convincingly. Barely two and a half months later I was unanimously elected the General Secretary of the Conference of Heads of all Regional SRCs. By dint of the fact that I am the Regional Coordinator of ERSRC, I represent the ERSRC on the Federation of Youth Associations of Ghana (FEDYAG). I was a member of the team that represented all Regional SRCs at the 41st National Congress of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) in August last year at the University of Education, Winneba. This I did in my position as Regional Coordinator-Programmes & Administration.
As a student of the African University College of Communications (AUCC) where I have enrolled to pursue a two-year diploma in communications, I have equally paid my dues as a student in activism. In just two weeks of admission, I was unanimously nominated as the class representative a position I am still holding. Just a little over one month after my admission, I was identified by the Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) a club in the school and subsequently nominated to the position of Domestic Projects Coordinator. A position I have held till now and have discharged my duties effectively and efficiently. I was also identified to be a member of the committee that drafted the constitution of JHR. This I did with the support of people like Henry Marbell as the chairman, Dela Odoo a member, Susuana Ago as the secretary and Fiifi Botchway also a member. The work was done within three weeks. People both internally and externally including Mr. Kofi Attoh, an Accra based Lawyer and a Lecturer of AUCC has described the constitution as one of the best he has seen.
I have fairly represented AUCC on several students’ platforms including the Ghana Union of Professional Students (GUPS) re-union night at NAFTI in Accra, the GUPS central committee meeting at the Trans Africa College also in Accra and the Emergency NUGS congress at the University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast in the Central Region of Ghana. Also worthy of note is that I was part of the first year debate team that beat the second years’ in a debate competition during the “Akwaaba Week” celebration to formally welcome the freshers into the university fraternity. I was also a member of AUCC’S debate team that trashed JAYEE Institute during the SRC’S Women’s Week celebration of the former.
I have participated in some club activities. These clubs include the Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) and the Institute of Public Relations (IPR) AUCC Chapter though I am yet to join the later.
I was a member of the students’ delegation which attended the funeral of the late Phidelia Alornyeku a student of AUCC who died after a short illness.
MY TOMORROW
I stand at the bank of the river and shout “floret” “floret” for the today I see shall be seen no more. What I welcome is my tomorrow and with a beam of smile, I embrace it with all the goodness it brings. I also say when you dream, dream big. For the dream may come true.
Yirenkyi Opare - Akuffo
Yirenkyi believes the future is today’s contribution and that what one does in future is only the completion of what one has started yesterday. This conviction has necessitated why I believe I am going to continue with my student’s service. I wish to cease the opportunity to state here that I am neither an opportunist nor seeking my selfish desire, but partisan I only desire to cause a positive change wherever I find my self and to make a strong impact as well as be a source of inspiration and motivation to others...
My greatest desire is to become a communication expert in human rights reporting, an international lawyer, and work with any international organization that is into human rights issues. I wish also to be a great and vibrant politician to continue causing positive change in people’s lives.
Personal Ideologies: Personally I believe that the African is his own enemy as a result of the number of coup de tars which only retard development and progress. But I also do believe Africa’s problems have been blown out of proportion and that we, are just like other people, on the earth surface. Every country and continent has challenges. Those challenges of the African continent could be solved by the very Africans and that the Brotonwood societies are only helping us to compound our challenges whiles they whitewash their own. I am a socialist and do believe there should be an equal access to national assets and worth.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
FOOD FOR THOUGHT, FOR THE BEAUTIFUL GIRL.
U beautiful girl you must be vigilant. Always take care of yourself. For men have only deceptive tongues. Their sayings are not consistent with their characters. Their tongues are as sweet as honey and you are like a big drum every one wants to beat. Boys will pretend they love you but deep, deep in their hearts they don’t love you. They only want to have their way with you. Wait upon the lord for the right time. For sure, God has a project for your life. And remember the motor of men and boys; thus love is the name and sex is the game so forget the name and play the game. Be wise my beautiful girl.
When life makes you to put up with mean and hateful people, just think of them as sand paper. They may scratch you and rub you the wrong way, but you end up smooth and polished; and the sun paper would be worn out and ugly. Beautiful girl, love your enemies it will drive them crazy.
When life makes you to put up with mean and hateful people, just think of them as sand paper. They may scratch you and rub you the wrong way, but you end up smooth and polished; and the sun paper would be worn out and ugly. Beautiful girl, love your enemies it will drive them crazy.
YOU BEAUTIFUL GIRL
1. U beautiful girl, indeed you are beautiful. There was a great vacuum created in my life, which I thought no man or woman conceived of a woman can fill it. But I was wrong after all. All of a sudden I felt the vacuum being filled I though I was day dreaming but it was real. You were there to fill the vacuum for me. You beautiful girl indeed you are God sent.
2. U beautiful girl indeed you are beautiful. My whole world came to a stand still, when I was deserted by the person that I have ever loved with all my heart, my soul, body and everything within me. My whole life became meaningless and life was nothing to me any longer. But then you brought light and hope back into my life. You gave me a reason to live as a normal man again. You beautiful girl, you brought meaning into my life; you are the source of my joy and happiness. Indeed you beautiful girl, you are the life line to my dead line.
3. U beautiful girl indeed you are beautiful. I was deserted and rejected by everybody around me especially those I loved most. The whole world rejected me, and everything in this world also rejected me. I was lonely and had no body to talk to, no body to give me warm embrace, and nobody to love and care for me. I had nobody to defend and protect me. Indeed the whole world had crumbled on me. But then you came to love and care for me. You came to defend and protect me. You came to embrace with a warm smile and said to me, I love you. You told me you will never leave me and that I will never be lonely again. You said you will always love me. U beautiful girl indeed you are my dream come true and my savior. U are indeed beautiful.
4. U beautiful girl indeed you are beautiful. I set out on a journey to the four corners of this world my mission? Simple, I was looking for love. I was not looking for just love but I was looking for a true real and unconditional love. A love that is natural and the person who will love me for what I am but not for whom I am. I have been searching for this love for several years and could not find it. I went to the length and breadth of this world but all to no avail. So I came to the conclusion that this love I was looking for does not exist. But just one day, I found this love and this is the beautiful girl. Yes! You lifted the lamp of love and shown the way that leads to true love. Beautiful girl, you are my long searched true and real love. You are indeed my true love and with you my life is complete. If I do not see my true love for a second my heart weeps, but if I see her for just a second my sings joyous praises. Beautiful girl, indeed you are beautiful and the source of my inspiration. You are the dream and ideal lady every man wishes to have. You are beautiful my beautiful girl.
5. U beautiful girl indeed you are beautiful. You are not only beautiful outwards or physically beautiful but your inner beauty is what beats my imagination and understanding. Your inner beauty can not be compared to any thing. God really made you! Your beauty sometimes makes me think if you are not a supernatural being. The reason is that I have never in my entire life met someone beautiful like you before and your beauty is second to none in this world; it has to be said. I must confess that if beauty, charm and elegance were to be passports to heaven, you will enter without a visa. Ah! You are really beautiful my beautiful girl.
6. U beautiful girl indeed you are beautiful. My beautiful girl, please don’t listen to your friends. Not every friend is good remembering. Some of your friends are jealous about us. They are jealous because you are beautiful both inside out than them. They are also jealous because of the love we have for each other. They can see we love ourselves so much and that what we feel for each other is true and real love and because of that they are jealous. Beautiful girl, please do not listen to the advice of your friends. They want us separated so we would end up like them. Make an investigation into their saying lest you risk throwing a precious stone away. Have always positive thought about our relationship. Please know that temptation is always around. Let us be strong and enjoy our happiness for the rest of our lives. You beautiful girl, my beauty and priceless gift, you are indeed a perfect companion. You are beautiful, beautiful girl.
7. U beautiful girl indeed you are beautiful. People always talk about first impression or love at first sight nut I as a person never believed in that. I never believed that I could see someone just once and be completely being head over hills in love with the person. But hey! I was wrong because I was utterly flabbergasted when I saw your angelic face the first time. In fact I was completely lost and it then dawned on me that first sight love was indeed real. Beautiful girl, I must admit that you are the first lady to attract my attention at first sight and I must say that there is something about you that no other lady has. In fact, my whole life revolves around you and your influence is so great. You are really my heart beat. I am indeed enjoying you my beautiful girl. Beautiful girl my heart now belongs to you so please take very good care of it. Any time I look at you whiles you speak, it sends some waves through my veins which non woman has been able to do. When I am looking at your face, I can see a sun of love shining in your face and attracts me like a magnet. Darling, you are my joy and happiness maker I can’t help it but to say you are beautiful and very special and I say I love you with all the passion in me. You are beautiful my beautiful girl.
2. U beautiful girl indeed you are beautiful. My whole world came to a stand still, when I was deserted by the person that I have ever loved with all my heart, my soul, body and everything within me. My whole life became meaningless and life was nothing to me any longer. But then you brought light and hope back into my life. You gave me a reason to live as a normal man again. You beautiful girl, you brought meaning into my life; you are the source of my joy and happiness. Indeed you beautiful girl, you are the life line to my dead line.
3. U beautiful girl indeed you are beautiful. I was deserted and rejected by everybody around me especially those I loved most. The whole world rejected me, and everything in this world also rejected me. I was lonely and had no body to talk to, no body to give me warm embrace, and nobody to love and care for me. I had nobody to defend and protect me. Indeed the whole world had crumbled on me. But then you came to love and care for me. You came to defend and protect me. You came to embrace with a warm smile and said to me, I love you. You told me you will never leave me and that I will never be lonely again. You said you will always love me. U beautiful girl indeed you are my dream come true and my savior. U are indeed beautiful.
4. U beautiful girl indeed you are beautiful. I set out on a journey to the four corners of this world my mission? Simple, I was looking for love. I was not looking for just love but I was looking for a true real and unconditional love. A love that is natural and the person who will love me for what I am but not for whom I am. I have been searching for this love for several years and could not find it. I went to the length and breadth of this world but all to no avail. So I came to the conclusion that this love I was looking for does not exist. But just one day, I found this love and this is the beautiful girl. Yes! You lifted the lamp of love and shown the way that leads to true love. Beautiful girl, you are my long searched true and real love. You are indeed my true love and with you my life is complete. If I do not see my true love for a second my heart weeps, but if I see her for just a second my sings joyous praises. Beautiful girl, indeed you are beautiful and the source of my inspiration. You are the dream and ideal lady every man wishes to have. You are beautiful my beautiful girl.
5. U beautiful girl indeed you are beautiful. You are not only beautiful outwards or physically beautiful but your inner beauty is what beats my imagination and understanding. Your inner beauty can not be compared to any thing. God really made you! Your beauty sometimes makes me think if you are not a supernatural being. The reason is that I have never in my entire life met someone beautiful like you before and your beauty is second to none in this world; it has to be said. I must confess that if beauty, charm and elegance were to be passports to heaven, you will enter without a visa. Ah! You are really beautiful my beautiful girl.
6. U beautiful girl indeed you are beautiful. My beautiful girl, please don’t listen to your friends. Not every friend is good remembering. Some of your friends are jealous about us. They are jealous because you are beautiful both inside out than them. They are also jealous because of the love we have for each other. They can see we love ourselves so much and that what we feel for each other is true and real love and because of that they are jealous. Beautiful girl, please do not listen to the advice of your friends. They want us separated so we would end up like them. Make an investigation into their saying lest you risk throwing a precious stone away. Have always positive thought about our relationship. Please know that temptation is always around. Let us be strong and enjoy our happiness for the rest of our lives. You beautiful girl, my beauty and priceless gift, you are indeed a perfect companion. You are beautiful, beautiful girl.
7. U beautiful girl indeed you are beautiful. People always talk about first impression or love at first sight nut I as a person never believed in that. I never believed that I could see someone just once and be completely being head over hills in love with the person. But hey! I was wrong because I was utterly flabbergasted when I saw your angelic face the first time. In fact I was completely lost and it then dawned on me that first sight love was indeed real. Beautiful girl, I must admit that you are the first lady to attract my attention at first sight and I must say that there is something about you that no other lady has. In fact, my whole life revolves around you and your influence is so great. You are really my heart beat. I am indeed enjoying you my beautiful girl. Beautiful girl my heart now belongs to you so please take very good care of it. Any time I look at you whiles you speak, it sends some waves through my veins which non woman has been able to do. When I am looking at your face, I can see a sun of love shining in your face and attracts me like a magnet. Darling, you are my joy and happiness maker I can’t help it but to say you are beautiful and very special and I say I love you with all the passion in me. You are beautiful my beautiful girl.
A Framework for Crisis Management and Crisis Management Planning
Crisis does come as a surprise and as unexpected time but any organization, commercial or public sector can prepare itself for the inevitable and everyone should.
make every effort to gather the pertinent facts quickly access the situation and respond to key audiences, non open and honest manner
enact the necessary measures to swiftly resolve the situation without jeopardizing the industry and safety of your company, your co-workers and your customers
Appoint executives to a standing crisis, communication team who will be call on in times of crises to make decisions and determine policies. Members should include the CEO, COO, CFO, PR Manager, Marketing Manager and customer service manager ant the very list, appoint one member of the team typically the PR manager as the primary contact between the team and the public also appoint a deputy crises administrator to serve as the backup of the primary administration
educate employees specially top and middle managers about your crises procedures
Establish communication strategist to address crises to situations. Select the appropriate spokes person, create press materials. Communicate your crises response to all key and audience employees, government agencies, vendors, consumers and the media.
Continually monitor the media for sign of escalation if signs are appellant adjustment may be required. Remain objectives and be wiling to make the necessary adjustment. Remember that changing your strategy is okay if your original plan isn’t working as well as you thought it would.
at all times take pains not to create the perception that your organisation doesn’t care or lacks integrity
Be as objective as possible when evaluating data, analysing consumer and media reactions and making judgement about the effectiveness of the crises of your crises communication programme. Is the media coverage positive or negative? What key message points are being made in media stories about crises? If they don’t reflect your key message points perhaps your could communicate them more clearly, credibly or dramatically.
after the crises have passed, put together the a post crises summary report it should include the cause of the crises extend and tone of media coverage suggested improvement in the crises response process, ways to implement those changes and possible alterations to company policy and procedures.
after you have overcome the short term treat work to rebuild the good will from each of your key audience over the long term
Models and Theories Associated With Crisis Management
Crisis Management Model:
Successfully diffusing a crisis requires an understanding of how to handle a crisis – before it occurs. Gonzalez-Herrero and Pratt created a four-phase crisis management model process that includes: issues management, planning-prevention, the crisis, and post-crisis (Gonzalez-Herrero and Pratt, 1995).
Management Crisis Planning:
No corporation looks forward to facing a situation that causes a significant disruption to their business, especially one that stimulates extensive media coverage. Public scrutiny can result in a negative financial, political, legal and government impact. Crisis management planning deals with providing the best response to a crisis. (12Manage, 2007)
Contingency Planning:
Preparing contingency plans in advance, as part of a crisis management plan, is the first step to ensuring an organization is appropriately prepared for a crisis. Crisis management teams can rehearse crisis plan by developing a simulated scenario to use as a drill. The plan should clearly stipulate that the only people to speak publicly about the crisis are the designated persons, such as the company spokesperson or crisis team members. The first hours after a crisis breaks are the most crucial, so working with speed and efficiency is important, and the plan should indicate how quickly each function should be performed. When preparing to offer a statement externally as well as internally, information should be accurate. Providing incorrect or manipulated information has a tendency to backfire and will greatly exacerbate the situation. The contingency plan should contain information and guidance that will help decision makers to consider not only the short-term consequences, but the long-term effects of every decision. (12Manage, 2007)
Business Continuity Planning:
When a crisis will undoubtedly cause a significant disruption to an organization, a business continuity plan can help minimize the disruption. First, one must identify the critical functions and processes that are necessary to keep the organization running. Then each critical function and or/process must have its own contingency plan in the event that one of the functions/processes ceases or fails. Testing these contingency plans by rehearsing the required actions in a simulation will allow for all involved to become more sensitive and aware of the possibility of a crisis. As a result, in the event of an actual crisis, the team members will act more quickly and effectively. (12 Manage, 2007)
Structural-Functional Systems Theory:
Providing information to an organization in a time of crisis is critical to effective crisis management. Structural-functional systems theory addresses the intricacies of information networks and levels of command making up organizational communication. The structural-functional theory identifies information flow in organizations as "networks" made up of members and "links". Information in organizations flow in patterns called networks (Infants, Rancer, & Womack, 1997).
Diffusion of Innovation Theory:
Another theory that can be applied to the sharing of information is Diffusion of Innovation Theory. Developed by Everett Rogers, the theory describes how innovation is disseminated and communicated through certain channels over a period of time. Diffusion of innovation in communication occurs when an individual communicates a new idea to one or several others. At its most elementary form, the process involves: (1) an innovation, (2) an individual or other unit of adoption that has knowledge of or experience with using the innovation, (3) another individual or other unit that does not yet have knowledge of the innovation, and (4) a communication channel connecting the two units. A communication channel is the means by which messages get from one individual to another (Infante et al., 1997).
make every effort to gather the pertinent facts quickly access the situation and respond to key audiences, non open and honest manner
enact the necessary measures to swiftly resolve the situation without jeopardizing the industry and safety of your company, your co-workers and your customers
Appoint executives to a standing crisis, communication team who will be call on in times of crises to make decisions and determine policies. Members should include the CEO, COO, CFO, PR Manager, Marketing Manager and customer service manager ant the very list, appoint one member of the team typically the PR manager as the primary contact between the team and the public also appoint a deputy crises administrator to serve as the backup of the primary administration
educate employees specially top and middle managers about your crises procedures
Establish communication strategist to address crises to situations. Select the appropriate spokes person, create press materials. Communicate your crises response to all key and audience employees, government agencies, vendors, consumers and the media.
Continually monitor the media for sign of escalation if signs are appellant adjustment may be required. Remain objectives and be wiling to make the necessary adjustment. Remember that changing your strategy is okay if your original plan isn’t working as well as you thought it would.
at all times take pains not to create the perception that your organisation doesn’t care or lacks integrity
Be as objective as possible when evaluating data, analysing consumer and media reactions and making judgement about the effectiveness of the crises of your crises communication programme. Is the media coverage positive or negative? What key message points are being made in media stories about crises? If they don’t reflect your key message points perhaps your could communicate them more clearly, credibly or dramatically.
after the crises have passed, put together the a post crises summary report it should include the cause of the crises extend and tone of media coverage suggested improvement in the crises response process, ways to implement those changes and possible alterations to company policy and procedures.
after you have overcome the short term treat work to rebuild the good will from each of your key audience over the long term
Models and Theories Associated With Crisis Management
Crisis Management Model:
Successfully diffusing a crisis requires an understanding of how to handle a crisis – before it occurs. Gonzalez-Herrero and Pratt created a four-phase crisis management model process that includes: issues management, planning-prevention, the crisis, and post-crisis (Gonzalez-Herrero and Pratt, 1995).
Management Crisis Planning:
No corporation looks forward to facing a situation that causes a significant disruption to their business, especially one that stimulates extensive media coverage. Public scrutiny can result in a negative financial, political, legal and government impact. Crisis management planning deals with providing the best response to a crisis. (12Manage, 2007)
Contingency Planning:
Preparing contingency plans in advance, as part of a crisis management plan, is the first step to ensuring an organization is appropriately prepared for a crisis. Crisis management teams can rehearse crisis plan by developing a simulated scenario to use as a drill. The plan should clearly stipulate that the only people to speak publicly about the crisis are the designated persons, such as the company spokesperson or crisis team members. The first hours after a crisis breaks are the most crucial, so working with speed and efficiency is important, and the plan should indicate how quickly each function should be performed. When preparing to offer a statement externally as well as internally, information should be accurate. Providing incorrect or manipulated information has a tendency to backfire and will greatly exacerbate the situation. The contingency plan should contain information and guidance that will help decision makers to consider not only the short-term consequences, but the long-term effects of every decision. (12Manage, 2007)
Business Continuity Planning:
When a crisis will undoubtedly cause a significant disruption to an organization, a business continuity plan can help minimize the disruption. First, one must identify the critical functions and processes that are necessary to keep the organization running. Then each critical function and or/process must have its own contingency plan in the event that one of the functions/processes ceases or fails. Testing these contingency plans by rehearsing the required actions in a simulation will allow for all involved to become more sensitive and aware of the possibility of a crisis. As a result, in the event of an actual crisis, the team members will act more quickly and effectively. (12 Manage, 2007)
Structural-Functional Systems Theory:
Providing information to an organization in a time of crisis is critical to effective crisis management. Structural-functional systems theory addresses the intricacies of information networks and levels of command making up organizational communication. The structural-functional theory identifies information flow in organizations as "networks" made up of members and "links". Information in organizations flow in patterns called networks (Infants, Rancer, & Womack, 1997).
Diffusion of Innovation Theory:
Another theory that can be applied to the sharing of information is Diffusion of Innovation Theory. Developed by Everett Rogers, the theory describes how innovation is disseminated and communicated through certain channels over a period of time. Diffusion of innovation in communication occurs when an individual communicates a new idea to one or several others. At its most elementary form, the process involves: (1) an innovation, (2) an individual or other unit of adoption that has knowledge of or experience with using the innovation, (3) another individual or other unit that does not yet have knowledge of the innovation, and (4) a communication channel connecting the two units. A communication channel is the means by which messages get from one individual to another (Infante et al., 1997).
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