Building Leadership Pathways for 5000 Young Africa

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.