THE HUMANITY CENTRE

GRASSROOTS POWERPOINT is a political education institute. It joins efforts with the First Faculty Ventures, a development and capacity-building consultancy firm as well as other pro-democracy organizations to organize series of activities that will help to ensure that our vote is made truly our power when the real person we voted for becomes our elected representative. Towards this end, GPP intends to engage the contestants and electorates in Town Hall Meetings. Village Square Meetings and Market Stead Talks.

GPP has found that the main problem that confronts the grassroots is total or partial ignorance. They do not have the boldness to ask for what belongs to them because they are not sure of their ownership of such. This is why they vote blindly without asking for the genealogy, pedigree and antecedents of the candidate. They join parties without considering their ideological learning programmes, manifestoes and constitution. They are complacent to tyrannies because they are unaware that life can be better lived. They are easily bamboozled because they consider the elites sighted and themselves blind. This problem of widespread ignorance at the grassroots in endemic and they need a deliberate plan of action geared towards tackling the roots cause of the problem.

The solution to the problem of ignorance is enlightenment. The Grassroots PowerPoint is poised to tackle this monster once and for all within our polity. Language barriers would therefore be broken. Inferiority complexes would be removed. The grassroots would be highly empowered, emboldened, enlightened and encouraged. They will be led to take their rightful positions within the scheme of things. GP is not a political party or an affiliate of one. It is totally independent. It works with all political parties, human rights, pro-democracy NGOs as well as all individuals that subscribes to its guiding principles. It is an impartial arbiter and dispassionate intercessor.

Members of GP will be trainer of trainers. They will be provided with adequate political social and economic training to the extent that they can pass the training acquired on to the less privileged ones. Their training curriculum will start from literacy and numeracy to politics, economic and governance. All political, economic and other deceptive jargons will be broken down to the language the grassroots understand. They would be led to partake in 'Town Hall' and 'Village Square' meetings. They will also be led in 'Market Stead' talks. A yearly report of activities will be complied and published.

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Everybody is somebody, nobody is nobody.
Everybody, whether affluent or peasant has a role in Nation building.
Nobody, whether educated or not is a reservoir or empty of knowledge.
Nobody is completely useless; at least he would serve as a bad example.
Everyone was created free with equal rights.
Everyone deserves the best that life can offer.
A wrong by the majority is tantamount to a right.
A wrong head cannot right its own body.
A people must form their own government, by themselves and for themselves.
A people united can never be defeated.

Objectives:

To enlighten members on their social and political rights
To enlighten members on how government works and elements of good governance
To educate members on statement analysis and public speaking
To enlighten members on strategies and tactics of fund raising for seeking political offices
To serve as moral technical and material back-up for members willing to contest elective positions.