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Kai Alleyne (left), who was the top student in his year, as he presented his brother, Tre Alleyne with the Kai Alleyne Alleyne Award of Excellence. Tre also copped the awards for being the Student of the Year, Most Outstanding male in his year and top male in the BSSEE.

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Corey Lane, Director of Nature Fun Ranch as he delivered his address.

Dream big, make plans

It is the role of the adults to guide the young people on the path of dreams.

This is the belief of Director of the Nature Fun Ranch, Corey Lane, as he gave his featured address to the graduating class of Wilkie Cumberbatch Primary School yesterday morning. During his passionate speech, Lane noted that it was important for children to have big dreams and not only dreams, but a plan.

“A dream without a timeline is a dream, a dream with a timeline is a goal, a goal with some details is called a plan, a plan with action brings reality and that is the plan that I want to leave with each and everyone of you, ...the graduating class and those out of the graduating class, that it is our role to guide our young people in dreaming,” he said.

Throughout his life, through working with the people in the prison system, through working with the Youth Parliament and Youth Council, one of the greatest blinders he found is the lack of dreams, passion and goals in the youth that causes them to ‘act out.’
“I tell people when I move around that one of the things common among those people giving trouble is that they do not know where they are going and there is a saying that a man that does not know where there are going, any road takes them there,” he said.

“And parents I can tell you this as I turn to you, do not interfere with the dreaming of your children. Your life and your generation are fundamentally different from them. I can tell you the rate of change of life has sped up so fast that your generation and your parents’ generation is a lot closer.”

While sharing his life story, and the failures and successes he experienced in life while trying to open the Nature Fun Ranch, he urged the graduates to persevere.

“Perseverance is not only when you are able to, but is the ability to be able to. It’s not only when you’re able to get up, it’s that you make yourself get up, that self-discipline to continue to grow,” he said.

“The jet fuel, as I like to call it, comes from your dream, which creates your passion, which creates your jet fuel to get up and to persevere.”

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