Jordan Dweh Kaydor's Valedictory Speech

VALEDICTORY SPEECH BY STUDENT JORDAN DWEH KAYDOR OF KG2

ON THE OCCASION MARKING THE OFFICIAL GRADUATION CEREMONIES OF THE DRIMS SCHOOL SYSTEM, GSA COMMUNITY, PAYNESVILLE, LIBERIA

Saturday, 21 JUNE 2014

Mr. Principal

Members of the Faculty

Our Guest Speaker and invited guests

Member of the graduating class

Student body

Our loving parents and guardians

Distinguished ladies and gentlemen:

I thank the Almighty God for bringing us this far. I also like to thank our teachers for selecting me to speak on behalf of the graduating class. Let me also thank our hardworking teachers for the time they have spent teaching us. They have worked very hard. They have given us education for a brighter future. 

Distinguished ladies and gentlemen:

I also want to thank our kind and loving parents who worked very hard to pay our school fees. They gave us recess. They bought our uniforms, and other school materials. And they brought us to school every morning.

Let me also say congratulations to the graduating class for a job well done. We have come this far by faith leaning on the Lord. We have come to enjoy the fruit of our labor. Let us celebrate and enjoy our graduation.

Distinguished ladies and gentlemen:

Please allow me to speak to you on the topic: ‘Education for a Brighter Future’. Today, Liberia is 167 years old. Liberia is just from a war that destroyed the country. Now that we have peace, it is time to rebuild our dear country. To rebuild Liberia, we need educated people. We need teachers. We need engineers. We need doctors, and we need pilots. Without education, our country will not develop. This is why I have chosen the topic ‘education for a brighter future’.

To my fellow graduates, I say congratulations. If we did not study hard, we would not be here. I therefore ask all of us to enter the 1st grade with a new spirit. Let us remain focused. Let us study hard. Let us respect our parents and our teachers. And let us also love one another. This will make our lives longer. With long life and education, we will have a brighter future.

To you, our teachers, we say thank you for giving us education. You have brightened our future. The 1^st grade will be a new beginning for us. We therefore ask that you provide us quality education in our new class.  With your support, we will do our best to complete elementary school. We will complete high school, and we will complete college. This will give us a brighter future.

To you our parents, our future depends on you. When you give us education, we will have jobs to take care of you when you are old. We say thank you for your support. But it is not over yet. We know times are hard, but we know that God will always provide. I am therefore asking you to continue to support us in school so that we can have a brighter future.

To you our government, we thank you for the work you are doing. However, we ask you to invest in our education. Some parents do not have money to send their children to school. If the children do not go to school today, their future will be dark tomorrow. This is why we call on you to educate us. If you educate all the children in Liberia, the future of our country will be brighter.

Distinguished ladies and gentlemen:

Thank you for coming to our graduation. May God bless our school, may God bless you all, and may God bless Liberia. 

I Thank you!