 An environmental activist, Neymar Basi, has advised Nigerian youths to use poetry to advocate social change. The Director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Hobef, gave the advice that a one-day workshop on poetry as a tool for advocacy in Port Hackett. Basi said the aim of the training is also to encourage young people to continue in the tradition of using poetry to pass messages to the large audience and authorities instead of engaging in social vices. To not propagate the ideas that poetry can be used for social change, it's definitely going to be useful. One of the young people who took part in the poetry said it's going to be using it in its activism. A conscious poet is an activist, so we want everyone to be an activist. Everyone to be conscious of what is going on and everyone to speak up. Poetry is one of the best ways to speak up and poems can very easily be turned into music. If more people write poems that are sensitive to what is going on around us, many, many of our creative musicians will pick up those words and put it into music and get more people to know about it. And we encourage other people to use the same method so we can have youths using their time usefully across the land. He urged the people to demand that multinationals operating in the area take full responsibility for human rights abusers. Meanwhile, some of the participants at the workshop commended the organizers for putting together the program. To have it for 41 years at Slavic Peninsula is not surprising. In fact, it's a surprise that anybody lives beyond that because the environment is absolutely polluted. People are born in pollution. They live in pollution. They die in pollution. They are buried in pollution. In the gas place we live with the moist fields that cause a lot of cancers, all kinds of breathing difficulties, skin diseases. People are drinking polluted water because there are no alternatives. And so it's really a miracle that people are alive at all. If nothing is done urgently, you could drive the people to extinction. It actually opened me up to a lot of great benefits that surrounds poetry. I think it's also an avenue for someone to actually express his mind in such a positive manner that will affect the society and also move our interest away from living in the dark of keeping quiet over things that we are supposed to speak of. This meeting has been a very impactful one. As a student, I never knew that I could branch out to write something from my mind using poetry and learning that experience has been a wonderful one. It has challenged me that I can express my views and I will be heard too.