Con-graduations, and Celebrations

On 4th October there was the Graduation for students from the Nursing & Midwifery School and the Medical Laboratory Training School.

 

This was the first Graduation ceremony for 3 years and so there were about 300 students waiting to receive their certificates.

 

 

The ceremony was held in the open air – fortunately this week the rain had decided to finish about an hour before the ceremony.

 In addition to the Guest of Honour, (a University chaplain) there were speeches by 6 other special guests.

 

 

The entertainment was singing and dancing by current students.

 

In addition to receiving their certificates graduates had to make an oath to serve patients faithfully.

 

Everybody had to dress up; including Malcolm!

 

 

A 3minute video is avilble on Youtube by clicking the link at: http://youtu.be/PtStyWsfWdU

 

This week’s African proverb from the BBC Africa web-site is from Zambia:  “The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat”