By Kehinde Ayeni | Manager, Communications & PR
In September 2016, LEAP Africa revamped its youth leadership programme for public secondary school students, to the iLEAD Programme, in line with its mission to empower young African leaders by providing the skills and tools required for personal and community transformation.
The YDTP curriculum which was solely designed to enhance the leadership skills of students now encompasses much more under the iLEAD curriculum, featuring interactive sessions on leadership development, life skills development, money management, employability and ethics, all of which are designed to enable students attain their maximum potential, promote youth civic engagement and workplace readiness.
With the new design, iLEAD still offered as an in-school programme, it prepares teenagers for sustainable poverty eradication, job creation, wealth generation and value re-orientation. In a typical public secondary school in Nigeria, you would find an entrepreneurial haven, where students make ends meet, selling items, products either purchased or self-made. Driven to make a profit, these students apply their limited understanding of entrepreneurship without necessarily understanding the concept to which they have poured their hearts into, which is the capacity and willingness to develop, organize and manage a business venture.
iLEAD is geared towards directing the students through core training on leadership, employability, financial literacy, entrepreneurship, social good among other key areas. It holds in classroom at specific periods for a small group of teenagers enrolled in the programme and led by 27 teachers who have been trained as facilitators at the Training of Trainer (ToT) workshops.
Through this expansive one year programme, LEAP is enabling and providing young people with the choice of venturing into the corporate world or launching careers as entrepreneurs in providing solutions to some of Africa’s problems. The programme currently has 690 secondary school students in senior year 1 in the pilot which is running in two geo-political regions of Nigeria (Lagos and FCT, Abuja).
We believe through the iLEAD programme wields a lot of power to potentially influence the way young Nigerians particularly of those that are disadvantaged in leading positive change, reducing society menace and transforming Africa.
By Chinenye Etoniru | Programme Officer
By Chinenye Etoniru | Programme Officer
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