Education Nigeria Project #28672

Building Leadership Pathways for 5000 Young Africa

by L.E.A.P AFRICA LTD/GTE

Project Report | Apr 22, 2019
ONE IMPACT - RIPPLE EFFECT

By Bernard Ibelih | ONE IMPACT - RIPPLE EFFECTS

Far back in 2007, LEAP through its Youth Leadership Programme (YLP), provided training and mentorship support to 40 young people who were passionate about leadership development of Africa. Akin was a participant in the programme in 2007 where he developed a passion for youth leadership in Nigeria. Recently – after 12 years – he conveyed the “Empowered for Change 1.0”, a Leadership and Civic responsibility Training Programme for young people in Ekiti state, a south-western region of Nigeria where LEAP Africa is located. Oluwadunsin is a young lady in her early twenties, passionate about the girl child, lives in a local community in Ekiti State and participated in the “Empowered for Change 1.0” training programme.
Unlike Lagos, Ekiti has a relatively lower reach of interventions and support from development organizations. The people live in communities full of needs and people with an untapped passion to solve social issues. She is emotionally depressed by the daily trauma young underserved girls in her locality go through when they cannot get access to decent sanitary pad to use monthly; exposing them to several episodes of infections. Even out of the odds, these young girls still thrive to go through life daily and have surrendered to their sad realities. Oluwadunsin believes every girl deserves a decent lifestyle regardless of their social status but she lacks the basic technical requirements to achieve her leadership potentials.
Her story is like many young people in Africa, who have brilliant ideas capable of transforming millions of lives and make living a lot easier for the people. But their ideas are suffering and in most cases, abandoned because there is no equipped institution in West Africa with full facilities that can provide a holistic training, research and curriculum development for personal, organizational and community development. That is why we want to take up this responsibility of building the LEAP Institute.
The LEAP Institute is an oasis for leadership development, training, and research, which will help the generation of solutions to the issues that affect the development of Africa. It will be the first fully equipped institute in West Africa with facilities for personal, organizational and community growth to supply training and research and curriculum development.

About the LEAP Institute
LEADERSHIP, EFFECTIVENESS, ACCOUNTABILITY AND PROFESSIONALISM (LEAP Africa) seeks to create an environment that pushes the boundaries of comfort and channel creativity in leadership. An atmosphere that promotes individual, community and community transformation.
The LEAP Institute is an oasis for leadership development, training and research, which helps find solutions to the issues that affects the development of Africa. It will be the first fully equipped institute in West Africa with facilities for personal, organizational and community growth to supply training and research and curriculum development. It will also have facilities for seminars, group retreat, conferences, etc.,
By 20215, LEAP expects to we are expected to have impacted 10 million Africans Nigerians directly and gained quantum leap in building ethical leaders and businesses to drive Africa’s realization of its full potentials. This vision is only possible through the support of both local and international organizations, partners and individuals that share our passion for an Africa that will lead a new frontier for good governance, inclusive growth and economic prosperity.
Positive transformation in Africa may seem like a dream to many, but to us, we believe nothing is impossible when we work together. We invite you to make the LEAP institute a reality and give Oluwadunsin and others access to free and affordable leadership training.

The LEAP Institute is an oasis for leadership development, training and research, which helps find solutions to the issues that affects the development of Africa. It will be the first fully equipped institute in West Africa with facilities for personal, organizational and community growth to supply training and research and curriculum development. It will also have facilities for seminars, group retreat, conferences, etc.,

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Jan 18, 2019
New Year, New Possibilities

By Kehinde Ayeni | Manager, Corporate Communications and PR

Sabokarji community members at the health outreach

Leadership, Effectiveness, Accountability &Professionalism Africa is a 16-year old nonprofit organization youth-focused on raising leaders that will transform Africa. Our organization has dedicated its efforts to developing visionary youth, ethical and successful enterprises leading to community development, nation building and will to influence and transform lives positively.

Primarily, our work borders around equipping youth to lead themselves, communities, organizations and the continent. We work with underserved youth, youth-led organizations and youth actors to bring this to reality.

Afew major highlight from last year was presenting our findings to educators in Lagos State on the need to revamp the curriculum in public secondary schools to include a leadership and life training; building on the existing framework of the national youth agency, NYSC to use youth to inspire youth while reducing unemployment simultaneously. You can read our full year in review of 2018 here.

Let us take a moment to reflect on one of the community development projects carried out by some of our teenagers in Lagos, Nigeria. Sabokarji is an area with limited access to affordable healthcare in Apapa area of Lagos state. To reduce some of the killer disease outbreak associated with child and maternal mortality among inhabitants, iLEAD Students from Apapa High School responded to this challenge, partnering with health professionals (volunteer) to embark on a massive health outreach to provide treatments and drugs for Malaria, Cold, Pains, etc., for inhabitants of the community. This intervention also aims significantly to reduce the number of children dying from malaria in the community. Mosquito nets were distributed to breastfeeding mothers and parents with children under-five. However, many families in the community still need proper medical attention, iLEAD students are looking for opportunities to do more.

The year 2019 will see LEAP working with partners to address fundamental problems in education and business and proffer solutions for how Africans, particularly African youth can fulfill their potential. The Leaderahip Institute will lead us further into actualizing our vision.

I invite you to join us in this journey.

Welcome to a new year, a year of possibilities.

iLEAD students in action;handing out mosquito nets

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