By Reeya | LEADer 2018
After graduating from the LEAD Course in June this year, I was keen to still stay involved with Women LEAD. When Women LEAD Nepal posted about With and For Girls Award Interview Panel on our Alumni Group on Facebook, I was super excited and couldn’t wait to apply for it!
The With and For Girls Collective is a group of 11 funders who give grants to grassroots organizations working with and for girls in five regions around the world. I was lucky enough to get selected to be one of the five panellists to interview 10 organizations from the Asia-Pacific region and decide which five organizations would get funding.
Before the interview, we were given two days of training by one of our fellow Women LEAD alumni who had been through the process before. During the training, we discussed each organization’s applications which helped us to learn more about the organizations. We also divided our roles for the interview and did a practice interview to make sure we were all prepared beforehand.
Our learning didn't end at the training- conducting the interviews was a humbling experience. We had the enormous responsibility of choosing the best organizations in such a strong cohort of applicants who were doing such magnificent things to empower girls. From this opportunity, we learnt about girls issues not just from our country, but from different countries like India, Pakistan, Tonga and Japan. After lots of intense discussions and deliberating, we were finally able to choose the five winners. Deciding the winners was a challenging experience and I couldn’t have done this without the decision-making and leadership skills I gained from participating in the LEAD course.
One of the best moments of this experience was when one of the interviewees complimented us on our stellar performance conducting the interviews. I am grateful to Women LEAD for not only providing young women like me with opportunities to learn leadership skills but also giving us a platform to practise these skills.
After we completed all 10 interviews, I felt empowered and proud of myself. This couldn’t have been possible without the constant support of Women LEAD and the trust of the With and For Girls Collective. I am thrilled that I was selected for this opportunity as it helped me to explore and give the best of myself.
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