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Our Motto
Our Motto
Our motto is divided into two parts:
Train to better educate;
Educate to better serve.
Train:
Without training, we cannot dream of a better future. It is the only path to success. According to Patrice Aimé Agossou: "Training reveals aptitude, and the field reveals competence." For IMMANA, training is primarily the only weapon we have against ignorance. Christ Himself trained leaders when He called Simon and his brother Andrew, saying: Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men (Matt 4:14). We understand that an instructor must first receive training to be able to pass on what they have learned to others. This is why Jesus did not call the scholars but "ordinary people" and transformed them into leaders with the mandate to be great missionaries (Matt 28:18-20).
Throughout our journey, we have identified two types of training:
Positive Training: This allows you to develop and deepen your technical and behavioral skills to act positively on your surroundings and your personal and professional development.
Negative Training: This does not respect the individual's pace of knowledge acquisition and does not adapt to their progress, preventing them from overcoming their blocks.
Therefore, we must provide children with adequate training for everyone's benefit.
Educate:
Education is also another way to teach. Both converge to create a decent human being with values who respects them. They become capable of serving others for a better future. Nowadays, there is a noticeable lack of values in society, which is becoming increasingly rare. A quick look at what is happening in Haiti today shows how much this is evident. Can this gap be bridged? To prevent our young people from falling into this vicious circle and staying there, we must bridge this gap by providing better education along with more suitable training for the world they live in. Parents and instructors must work together for the children's benefit. Because only when education and training go hand in hand to solve the problems in which our society stagnates will we find a true sense of our purpose, which is not to destroy but to build a better world for us and our descendants.
We should return to the source when education was based on true spiritual, moral, and family values. We should avoid letting material aspects take over, prioritizing being over having. Parents and instructors must continue to educate themselves and improve to be better models for the young and to pass on the right knowledge to build a better world. It is worth noting here that one cannot give what one does not have.
Serve:
To be a good citizen, one must have a sense of sacrifice and be ready to serve the greater number. We find this concept in the Bible, in Matt 20:26-28, where Jesus made this statement: "Whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant. Whoever wants to be first must be your slave. Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and give his life as a ransom for many." Here, the Greatest Teacher teaches us a different way of seeing the balance of power that prevails in the world, where the strongest rule dictatorially and make us believe that we are weak if we do not act the same way. Jesus shows us a different way to approach our relationships with others. The Apostle gave us similar advice in his writings to the Philippians 2:3-4: "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility, value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others."