Last night I was watching CNN’s Hero of the Year program where they recognize the works of exemplary humanitarian activists from through out the world.
As I watch the program, I raised the same question that always comes to my mind. Why don’t we have such an award system where we recognize exceptional achievements and deeds of Eritreans?
I don’t think any one would doubt the relevance of such recognition for wellbeing of a society – It is such a common sense concept. Recognition is an incentive system and people respond to incentives. This not to say those who do exemplary works will do it to get recognition….No! But recognizing their work and cause will boost their effort and encourage others to follow their steps. And there are many Eritrean individuals doing extraordinary things who deserve recognition from their society. But often, we don’t even know them, let alone to award them…..simply because we don’t have a mechanism to recognize their achievements and causes. The only such annual recognition (award) system that I am aware of is the RaymaK award given to artist. But don’t we need Raymoks in academy? In Business?, in humanitarian activities? Yes we do! We need more RymoKs...in many other fields. We have Eritrean individuals doing commendable work helping Eritrean refugees who deserve recognition. We have exceptionally successful Eritreans in academy and business who could serve as role model to Young Eritreans. By recognizing the achievement of those individuals, we as a society will benefit a lot.
I hope to see some sort of organizations that would organize these wards in different fields ….and I hope it will not be late.
Till then, let’s assume here such a hypothetical organization exists and it is going to award an ERN hero of the year 2008 at the end of this year. The award, according to the criteria of this hypothetical organization, will be given to any Eritrean who have:
1. Done exceptional works in humanitarian activities helping Eritreans, or
2. Have achieved exceptional success in any field and can serve as role model to young Eritreans.
To that extent, if you were asked to nominate your ERN hero of the year 2008, who would he/she be?
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