This is basically on my experience during the National Youth Service Corp.(N.Y.S.C).Below are some of the Basic or Major things that you would need during your stay for the three (3) weeks orientation camp and your whole one year.Please Read on
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
On getting to the Orientation camp, the first thing that you will have to do is to get registered. This is very essential for you to be admitted into the camp. During the registration exercise, you are expected to provide the following:
* Your Final Year Student ID card
* The Notification Of Result from your higher Institution (ORIGINAL and (photocopies for submission)
* Passport Photographs (You would be needing over 10 copies if you don’t want to snap more in the camp because of cost)
* NYSC Call Up letter (ORIGINAL with photocopies)
During the registration exercise, you will be given some documents, which you will have to fill, attach your passport photographs and submit to the necessary officers. The documents are easy to fill and should in case you don't understand some part, Please ask people (corpers) or the officials to aid you in filling the form appropriately because it forms a file for your stay in the camp.
It is important,you come with your school ID Card showing you are eligible for service (you can use the school final year ID card or an issued NYSC ID card.Ensure you make enough photocopies of the above documents because it would be costly making copies in the camp
Once you complete your registration, you will be issued your STATE CODE, which will be your unique code all through your service year. With this code, you will then go ahead to claim your mattress and your NYSC kits. You will then be directed to your hostel where you will stay all through the Orientation exercise. Once you locate your hostel, the bunks might be labeled, in that case, find your bunk and get settled. You can then put on your NYSC kit, and you are then good to SERVE YOUR FATHERLAND.
CAMP LIFE REQUIREMENTS
During your stay in camp for three weeks, you are not expected to put on any kind of clothing EXCEPT the NYSC kits that will be supplied to you. You will not be allowed to put on any shirt whatsoever, likewise, you will not be allowed to put on any other shoe, other than the JUNGLE BOOT or the white canvas that will be supplied to you. Hence, don't disturb yourself packing all your wears to camp UNLESS you have decided not to travel back home after the orientation exercise.
Nevertheless, you can just take few wears along with you, should in case you just feel like dressing differently to church/mosque services. On such occasions, you MIGHT be allowed to be in muftis. More so, you can take along with you, white shirts and shorts and probably white footwears to serve as alternatives for those that will be supplied to you on camp. You might have to buy these on camp at high prices from MAMI MARKET (this is the nickname for the temporary market at NYSC camps), should in case the kits that will be supplied to you DISSAPOINT you after few days of putting them on.
In addition, it is better if you go along with your cutleries, though you can easily buy them from MAMI market. You will need also need to get a big waist bag which you can tie round your waist. This will come handy during parades, exercises and even during the endurance trek.
If you want to live large on camp, definitely, you will have to go along with some good cash. Your first allowee will be paid to you on camp, mostly during the last week of the orientation exercise. You will also be paid your bicycle allowance.
If you have a digital camera, you can also take it along with you because you will definitely have lots of scenes to snap and events to record. Your camera phone will also do the work for sure,just get a big memory card handy. You will see photographers on ground but trust me, those guys can drain your wallet within a twinkle of an eye if you are not wise enough, as they are so good in snapping shots you might find hard to resist from paying for.
On the day of passing out, those photographers give out pictures at very cheap prices, that's why some Corpers prefer waiting for the last day before collecting their pictures. This trick works best with personal pictures because GROUP pictures are always on demand and you might not get a copy of such on the last day.
Don't forget to carry your MOSQUITO NET along with you if you have one. No need of going to camp with your laptop, for security reasons. Leave it at home and you can later go home to carry it to your place of primary assignment, after your orientation camp.
More so,Series of organizations and individuals will come to lecture you on diverse topics,hence try and get an exercise book handy too because you might need to write some stuffs down during such lectures.
I WISH YOU SAFE JOURNEY TO YOUR PLACE OF PRIMARY ASSIGNMENT. I PRAY, GOD WILL SEE YOU THROUGH. AMEN
Cheers !!!.
Sourced from Jide Ogunsanya
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