BY DAYO ADESULU

Noah’s Ark Communications Limited, organisers of the three-day workshop on Creative Photography and Makeup for students of Wasimi Community Senior School, Maryland, has said that the initiative was to boost the practice of photo-journalism and entrepreneurship among youths.

During the first two days of the workshop, the students were taught different skills such as how to handle a camera, creative photography (practical demonstration and photo session) and makeup (basic makeup techniques and simple makeup hygiene while on the third day ,the students were hosted to a small party.

Speaking at the workshop, the MD, Noah’s Ark Advertising Limited, Mr. Lanre Adisa, explained that the company decided to expand the frontiers of its CSR initiative beyond the donation of solar reading lamps to empowering and helkping the students shape their future by impacting on them skills in the areas of photography and makeup.

“We started this last year with the donation of reading lamp to the students and this year we are trying to impact their world by helping them take up careers in photography and makeup.

Adisa noted that the 3-day workshop will go a long way in future career development of the benefiting student as some of them may take interest in either of the two key areas and develop to become professionals of repute in the future and to become entrepreneurs thereby creating job for others.

On the choice of only Wasimi Secondary School, Adisa stated that the agency believes in starting its CSR drive by directly touching lives and impacting on its immediate environment  in which the school is located.

He hinted that the Agency has plans to adopt the school and support it in different ways from time to time.

Describing the workshop as an opportunity of a lifetime which will go a long way in the lives of the students, the school, the Vice Principal, Mr. Abdul-Kabir Abubakar, thanked the Agency for lending a hand to the school to prepare the student for the future and for choosing the school.