ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopia has set children-youth training strategic manual believed to parry ethical lapses. When it gets rolling across the country the manual is believed to play quite a role in building a generation that firmly abides by ethical standards. There is a need to back the previously organic ethical society to avoid the erosion of useful virtues of the community, said the FRDE Anti-Corruption Commission.
This training manual has been drafted putting in mind sparing children and the youth such follies and warding off moral decadence. This will help Ethiopia to steer out its developmental ship from murky waters and spur its development, said the Public and Communication Team Leader Kebebe Dadi.
After these ethical strategic training manuals are translated into action, the country’s child and youth could know full well what ethics is, family ethics mean and friendship embodies.
They as well will fathom what neighborhood ethics, school ethics and country ethics mean. They will internalize why those ethical disciplines are needed. They will understand such decorum is key for the commonwealth, joint growth and development.
As experience demonstrates having awareness of ethical disciplines has laid the cornerstone for downsizing the tendency of corruption from the grass-root level, he added.
Such a move apart from bridging ethical gap, it helps in coming up with taskforces that spearhead growth than derail it. They set example to the generations in the pipeline.
According to Kebebe, the strategic manuals’ implementation will have additional values, for youths will know about what things the country expects from them and what citizens benefit from respecting those values and norms of the country.
He added that sometimes almost all the children and youths across the globe unknowingly sit on the horns of a dilemma regarding which option pays—being ethical or unethical. The director suggested the subjects in discussion should go for the ethical one, the lodestar of their life.
And this training manual could have a great role in building a good and well-disciplined family and community. This ethical family and community could play parts in the country’s common growth and development.
The movement of that generation could make the country competitive in line with the world’s modest income society.
He concluded that for two decades and half the country had been remiss in doing tasks towards rendering children and youths ethical. This has created a generation gap. So joining hands we have to work on the chasm.
The generation that comes imbibing moral values at formative years and beyond will play a great role for unity and has to uphold equal respect of all human beings.
The Ethiopian Herald December 29/2019
BY MUSSA MUHAMMED
