In his welcoming speech the Chief Executive Officer of Revealed Word University, Mr. Celestin Ngirabakunzi welcomed this opportunity as a way for the various experts, businesses with various educational backgrounds, and experiences to impact knowledge in assisting with developing new and old ones, ourselves, and the rest of the world.

The first speaker Dean of RWU Prof Dr. Jean Baptist focused on the role and immediate intervention of microfinances and new business for post covid19 Africa stating that although we are falling on hard times, new opportunities have been revealed that we could take advantage of and be used to impact our communities.

“There are many opportunities even though in such hard time is affecting different sectors of human being life, social economical situations is really going down, financial issues is going down but there are many new opportunities that are really being revealed not only the Word of God that is being revealed but even opportunities are revealed. For example, the new technologies: it is possible with Zoom clouds meetings and Google Meets. There are many opportunities that are created today with 21^st century we are shifting from analogic to digital of learning”.

The second speaker Prof Dr Veronique the Vice Chancellor of Revealed Word University, looked at the Biblical way of life after covid19 and fighting its consequences in Africa. The Vice Chancellor underlined how in times of suffering we question ourselves especially as Christians. Wondering what God’s will in our lives and where do we go from here but most importantly that God has good plans for our lives and grieves over our suffering and pains.

“As an answer the gospel loudly proclaims God’s will for people and that God’s will is life not death and suffering because God griefs over human suffering and sins, even Jesus wept over Jerusalem, he suffered when he also saw how Jerusalem is behaving and us, we responding to suffering with lament and tears, if we have lost our capacity to cry, we have lost our right to others pain. Suffering is contrary to the goodwill of God”.

The Vice Chancellor further emphasising that we should be tangible as stewards of life and resources.

“Our calling is to steward life and resources with which we have been entrusted with so that we end human suffering and allow the spirit of God through as tangible expressions of God’s trustworthiness and love”.

Dr. Jacques Edjrokinto President of IUMA (International University of Management and Administration) in Benin, offered practical solutions that the Republic of Benin and the university has adopted since the pandemic hit and ways to improve learning for both students and lecturers.

“The pandemic offered an opportunity to see the limit of face-to-face training, it was an opportunity to develop many contents, soft work and online programs. We arranged a system with the television and national radio and online to put the content of the courses. We developed 3:

The first to train lectures to write the content, to put online the content;
The second strategy to teach students how they can follow courses online and use facility of the telephone and iPad and train them to follow the course directly.
Third strategy is setup platform, the platform we setup is the Moodle system, and we arrange with technician and supplier and we get system and we put many courses on the platform”.

Additionally, the president was focusing on the practicability of online and distance learning for post covid19 job and employability in Africa, how we can help our people in Africa attend the course without any trouble.

“The future of Africa is in three sectors

The first is education we have many possibilities to receive course, but we need to train to educate our people we need to give them education to be able to invent many things.
The second aspect for the development of the world is technology we need to train people about the technology and to give them power to be able to invent to be able to develop and to imagine the future.
The final aspect is handcraft if we have people working in handcraft, we just need to develop our activities and they can come and buy what we are developing in Africa”.