Empower a Girl: For Self-Reliance

Local Pathways to Global Development embracing local solution

In the story told by one of the founder members of Kole Intellectual Forum in the photo above, recorded by one of the project Leaders named underneath; he noted that:this founder member related the story of Kole Intellectual Forum to the footprints of one of their early hominid in the name of “OLUM”, Whom the storyteller stated that: the story had been  passed on from one generation to the other and yet they could not tell the new generation where that hominid came from, where he went and what his plans were. However, one would assume that he had the capable of speech, he could let people know about his  thoughts, ideas, knowledge, while walking along the plain in the on estimated time of about three and a half million years ago; taking into the account that: ever since humans walked on earth, they have sought more knowledge to feed their families, stay healthy, argue with their neighbors, getting a better understanding of their environment or just have some distraction from an otherwise rather challenging life.

In the storyteller’s viewed, he observed that: for hundreds of millennia, local needs and constraints and day-to-day challenges drove the quest for knowledge; to him, scientific approaches to knowledge generation, as we know them today are, historically speaking, a very recent phenomenon. These modern approaches have brought about tremendous results that: for instances, we have the capacity to feed more than six billion people satisfactorily; vaccinations protect our children from once deadly diseases, we communicate with the help of satellites around the globe and we compete on global market places with our products. Yet, despite these achievements, we still have crises of hunger, HIV/AIDS, illiteracy, isolation, and conflicts and abject poverty. While the debate on the causes of poverty is not closed, we have learned that science and technology alone cannot provide all the answers or solutions to these unsolved problems or how we can overcome living in a disparate world characterized by unequal distribution of wealth and opportunities. As scientists struggle to respond to global challenges, they have increasingly distanced themselves from local ways of solving problems. Local solutions were even discriminated against as hindering progress, outdated, “old wives tales” or simply just unfashionable. As we “modernized” our societies, a “degree” in traditional or indigenous knowledge was not planned for.

Hence, we overlooked at the potential local solution and even further neglected the knowledge that are traditional and indigenous in nature; a solution that: Kole intellectual Forum is taking with kin interest to see that: they follow the local pathway for the global development and wealth; through action research to into local needs and address it using local solution with support from global developers like those of donors on the platform of GlobalGiving where it has its poroject page in the name of Kole Intellectual Forum link at: http://goto.gg/31562

Links:

• Kole Intellectual Forum