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  JANI: Your highness sir, I'm soliciting for your time to invite you to give more talk in this discussion for the community.

  KING: No problem! I understand the more young people get the more they require.

  JANI: Alright! Your feisty are welcome, but which spectrum of approach should it be used to conduct such training?

  KING: Don't worry! Procedure will be discuss during the Ice breaking seasons.

  At this stage, the king go for a walk and latter cast himself for more copious dimension to invoke rules to re-educate jani and others within his kingdom for intellectual discussions through a very deep thrilled of commitment and Jani and Co. jotted the main point on their note-pad and grinned at themselves, happy to witness the king for lightening their minds.

  KING: Thanks once more for inviting me to drench and leaking out the fragmentation windows for trial balloon.

  JANI: You are highly welcome your highness, to diagnosed the effect of clear understanding by the team mental disorder, deviant behavior and drug abuse, particularly to young people that consequence distort their judgments. Please your highness, how do you realized a good mental health during your youthful age?

  KING: You know different cultures have differing expectations for health, but some time mental health is a state in which every individual realize his or own potential, can cope with normal stress of life, can work productively and fruitfully and is able to contribute to his or her community.

  JANI: Your highness sir, what are the characteristics likely to be present in individuals with good mental health?

  KING: You need to have a sense of well-being and contentment.

  A zest for living- the ability to enjoy, to laugh and have fun

  Resiliency- being able to deal with life's stresses and bounce back from adversity

  Self- realization- participation in life to the fullest extend possible, through meaningful activities and positive relationships

  Flexibilities- the ability to change, grow and cope with a range of feelings, as life's circumstances change.

  A sense of balance in one's life- between solitude and sociability, work and play, sleep and wakefulness, rest and exercise, etc.

  A sense of well- roundedness- development of mind body, spirit, creativity.

  The ability to care for oneself and for others

  Self- confidence and balanced self-esteem.

  JANI: Thank you your highness, but what are the certain things we need to take, do or avoid in order to improve our mental health.

  KING:

  You need to get enough rest.

  Eat a balance diet.

  Avoid excessive caffeine and alcohol.

  Engage In physical exercise.

  Avoid tobacco and other drugs.

  Perform a healthy activity that you enjoy and that is relaxing ( e.g. listen to good music, take a walk on a beach, listen to good music, read good book, talk to a good friend).

  Attend to your spiritual needs by meditating, praying, or appreciating nature.

  Make a list of the things that are troubling you, then fold it and put it away for the rest of the day.

  Priorities your challenge and deal theoretically with one that are either most stressful or easiest to check off the list.

  Be sure to speed ample time with people whose company you enjoy not mediocre, generally those who have an upbeat and positive attitude.

  (Source: http://www.helpguide.org/about.htm-1996-2005)

  JANI: Thank so much your highness! From line 2 of your comment, you make mention to eat balance diet, so as to improve our mental health.

  KING: 'Yes, as the case of nutrition, that was the reason I say, there are certain things we all need to take, do or avoid in order to improve our mental health.

  JANI: Is that the reason a large groups of those refuse to avoid or take are suffering from malnutrition?

  KING: 'Yes, you know nutrition food deals with nutrients and other food substances and how the assimilate them.

  JANI: Your highness sir, you mean individual nutrients are made to sustain the body structure?

  KING: 'Yes, when nutrients undergo in the body, they are broken down and release energy. And they are transported and used to rebuild countless specified tissues and sustain the overall health of the individual.

  JANI: That means important nutrition decisions need to be made for the health of individuals, and particularly groups with special needs, such as the young, pregnant women and the old.

  KING: That was the reasons the World Bank release some part sum of money to raise the overall supplies of nutrients to the local communities which been shown to suffer from nutrient’s deficiencies.

  JANI: Your highness, you mean World Bank? That could be a statement, something you read somewhere, a series of words, or part of an advertisement!

  KING: Whatever comes to mind, ideal nutritional healthy diet pyramid concept is what we are talking about.

  JANI: Your highness I pray your information is up- to- date to tackle the rate of hunger and malnutrition that we are witnessing today.

  KING: Let wait and see, I don't think is business as usual.

  JANI: Thank your highness! As an expert in nutritional concept, what line of action should we take in our little way in preventing malnutrition in my community?

  KING:

  Your first line of action is to understand nutrients and their effect.

  Understand the general dietary guidelines.

  Understand the healthy diet pyramid.

  Taking the process of environmental scan.

  Identify the cause of malnutrition.

  Ensure you embark into the community-based programme into action planning process on the myths about nutritional food.

  Ensure that children who suffer from malnutrition are identified and mother or care givers are educate about proper nutrition.

  If possible engage the community town crier or radio station to broadcast nutritional information in local languages so as to challenge cultural norms and misperceptions about nutritional food in your community.

  JANI: Thank you sir.

  KING: Jani, I must appreciate your effort, but what gives you hope about young people?

  JANI: I have hope that once we concentrate on working with the young people early as possible, chances are likely there to be a wonderful adult. I believe there will be an evolution soonest in terms of young people taking action, applying practical different means to take strong leadership positions that will completely transform the world of today.

  KING: Finally any other point you wish to make?

  JANI: First of all let me remind Andrew Simmons 1999 narrative he said and quote: We have to involve the youth expect, we have to see them as an important element within the development process. Youth in a sense have been stifled, they don't listen to them, and they don't consult youth expert, they sit in their office because they think they are train in an area; and they jot down the whole plan on the people, and expect people to be involved with it.

  If instead we look at it from the bottom up, in terms of getting people to participate, listening to their views, and then after that shaping the policy, rather than them setting the policy first, I think things would be much better. To me, that's the most important lesson that I have learned from this experience.

  KING: You mean they sometime not consult youth expect for youth development?

  JANI: ‘ Yes, youth expect are those working with young people that intentionally help them meet developmental needs, build their capacity and provides relationships and connection needed for their success, in other to transform their community and address the social, physical, education and cultural challenges that impede youth growing up successfully.

  KING: Well, if you don’t know the rules of any game, you can never rule in it, to me every man’s ability is proportional to what he knows, take this for your intention.

  You are highly welcome!

  I appreciate your effort.

  To haggle your ti
me,

  To run at the very first pinch;

  To give direction for throng

  In a civil fulsome ease,

  As a king in a quango,

  I twiddle with your consternation,

  To go on bid one's brain,

  To promulgate where you preachy

  Down to the village squire;

  To drop out my sedately crown-attire,

  To use the trunk release,

  For the seek of backless trees

  With my crown of gold so fair on my head.

  At this point Jani went back home in a happy mood, informing Kuka and mummy on her effort to meet the king and also disclose the king effort down to the village square or ‘conscientization’. Thereafter Jani asked after her daddy and the mummy responded to her that he was in the forest to cut down trees for their living. At this stages Jani was preparing to travel to meet him for the impacts of cutting down trees on the environment.

  [Met Jani in scene 4]

  SCENE THREE

  Values (principles, standard or qualities consider worthwhile by individual; beliefs about people should behave and the principles that should govern behavior)

  KING, BOYA, MAJA, BAYAAN, KAGO, and OTHERS.

  After some hours the chief delegate some of his aids to take the analytical studies of the community. The determinant were analyze by the chief aids and the chief himself receive the cohort study and established the link to a town hall meeting.

  KING: I greet you all the people of majigi village as you all know a house that stands by itself is a food for the fire. And the house that stand palisaded is a mark of a chief. I want to solicit for your support, as you all know “There is but one eye of the needle through which must pass the black thread, the red thread, and the white thread.”

  My parable is not about outsider it's about us living in this community our children and next unborn. We all stakeholder in this community to protect our environment. In the pass years our activities have tended to deplete the earth's raw materials while at the same time releasing huge quantities of waste energy and toxic material back into the environmental system.

  This pollution is damaging the air, soil and water, it's also causing global warming and damaging the ozone layer that protects our atmosphere from harmful ultra-violet solar radiation. To continue in this way probably means that will eventually destroy the environmental conditions that enable us and most of the living things around us to exist due to our behavior.

  Last time, the people of majigi village came to report about the indiscriminate waste dump in our community which causes health threat to ourselves. Therefore we must take the physical environment into account. It is on this note I challenge any one of us to comment, suggest and find a lasting solution to this issues.

  Thank you All.

  BOYA: Your highness- remain bless, thank you for given me this opportunity to speak my name is boya, I’m more concern on the physical environment as you mention. Your highness sir, please how do we take it into account?

  KING: Taking the physical environment is very crucial because if the social system does not take it into account, the results may include deforestation, the removal of vegetation and the destruction of habitats for natural food supplies and causes widespread pollution. And that is why you see a community divided between wealth and still crippling poverty.

  MAJA: Thank you very much your highness, may you live long! My name is Maja from Majigi village, I stood still in existing protocol “our people say, it is one thing to be concerned by a problem, another thing is to take action and then a whole other thing to take action that has potential to bring about a change to desire and solve it.

  Your highness sir, through my observation I could see the people of Rogo village didn't turn up to witness this crucial day on peace building and environmental management.

  Firstly sir, can the action of Majigi village alone has the potential to bring about change and solve it? Secondly, what are the acceptable social norms for them to be absent in this crucial meeting. And how can majigi village alone demanding inalienable right on environment issues from the state.

  KING: As we all know I sent my aids for public announcement for this meeting but unfortunately the turnout is very low, we would not relent in our effort, we would keep talking to them , keep inviting them.

  Whatever our ethnic group or religion is and continue to have a worm and chatting attitude with them, even if they don't come, making an effort to speak to them the important of what we do and hope to achieve, instead of using our difference as a means to distance ourselves from each other we should celebrate those differences and identify what we have in common, whatever be the case, we need to forgive one another, by developing a policy that addresses the concerns of almost all the stakeholders to ensure participation of many people as possible, especially those that will be affected by the policy not for some set of people through any parochial mind.

  Yes! This start with two facts- we all have separate cultural identities and we are willing to work together to make a better place for generation that follow us.

  BAYAAN: Remain bless your highness! Please how should we get out of the quagmire about the acceptable social norms in this community?

  KING: Firstly we must inherent good quality of mind and character, good temper and good quality though. If we would ever get out the quagmire of misery we need to think differently we need to think wide and we need to think deep. What we are passing through now we must have a sense of community we must also have open mind to each other, without community we can't extend ourselves and contribute meaningfully. Community thrive when we value diversity.

  Lastly we must build good habit not be a lazy thinker, oftentimes we assume we think while we are having a wide mental cruise, we are on auto-pilot all over the time never taking control of our though. Ideas they say rule the world but not without a thinking hat.

  “Good thinking Good product”

  KAGO: Your highness may you live long! The seed that is sown by you shall never be lost to work in common in this community. We are going to enact your words in due time. I also believe our modus operandi of the physical environment should start by ourselves because without physical hygiene prayers are broken, without clean facilities pollution rains cities, and without any effort to improve one's own purity, it becomes more difficult to prevent external corruptions like littering.

  Thank you and remain bless.

  KING: Mr. Kago have risen an important note, we must start by ourselves, because cleanliness is part of godliness which is right! We can all see we have today through our effort address issues that held our community down, we have address the issues of quagmires of misery in this community and also the responsibility to protect our environment for generation yet unborn. Also it is on that we close today town hall meeting. I express gratitude over your coming. And May we remain bless, peaceful and prosper in this community.

  PARTICIPANTS: (Shouted) 'Aameen' Amen' esai.'

  KING: Thank you for your kind attention.

  A kind and gentle heart you had,

  To sound as parliamentarians in our local zone,

  To comfort neighbour and foes.

  All around the neighboring streets

  To put them into their native code,

  On how to get out their fiercely home than before.

  As a king in the midst of your thinking,

  “I’ll give it all hope with strong endeavor;

  To utter the least complaint;

  Till grievance fell still lower, in the land.

  As grieved as man could be;

  We had been trying to do great deed;

  Lord, give us careful hands

  To make simple things as thy sake

  Happy within our dream land to dwell.

  To see them using our blueprint

  To carry Mr. nobody along as Mr. Somebody,

  I think it was good way we prevail;

  To see others kings sweat in peace,


  To use our mental grammar as mother tongue,

  Any shape does for our native land, again

  We’ll write to abasi-nbok

  Or turn around for more good to show,

  Since the Lord of Prophet Moses (As) is still alive

  Our head is good enough for the crown;

  With our achievement to stand us out,

  For shining any brutish mortal grudge, if any!

  Exceeding peace and justice had made us proud.

  Ahmed Shuaib Shaktima

  SCENE FOUR

  Personal Characteristics: (Individual features that distinguish people, specific trends, e.g. optimism, creativity.)

  JANI, DADDY, KUKA, MUMMY,A VOICE, MR OBI (VENDOR)

  Jani arrive safely on her journey to meet daddy with some root of plant for replanting informing him the important of Preserve, Conserve, and protect the environment.

  JANI: Good day daddy, how is work?

  DADDY: (surprise) Jani what brought you here? What are you here for?

  JANI: I'm here to see how we can stop cutting down our forest and build up our green canopy so as to mitigate the effect of climate change.

  DADDY: Jani' don't you know a new study shows growing plants and then storing the CO2 they have taken up from the atmosphere is no viable option to counteract unmitigated emissions from fossil fuel burning?

  JANI: daddy you know the plantations would need to be so large. However growing biomass in well- selected places like ours will increased irrigation or fertilization could support climate stabilization below 2 degrees Celsius.

  “If we continue cutting down trees, burning coal and oil the way we do today and regret our inaction later, the amount of greenhouse gas we would need to take out of the atmosphere in order to stabilize the climate would be too huge to manage”

  DADDY: (laugh) hahahaha! What do you mean? How did you want me to feed my family including you! Moreover what makes you involve in this campaign?

  JANI: daddy weren't who would be to take out this campaign, and you know environmental problems impact on women’s ability to fulfil their responsibilities, thus women have a vested interest in sustainable development.