New Educational Program Announced: Empower Socially Responsible Leaders in Africa
Boulder, CO, January 27, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Educate! Develops a New Program to Reach 375 Students in 2009.
Educate!, an organization that aims to empower the next generation of socially responsible leaders in Africa, announced a new two-year program, the Educate! Experience, that will reach 375 high school students across Uganda in February 2009.
The students participating in the Experience complete an innovative two-year leadership curriculum that includes the creation of a project that effectively and sustainably addresses a community need. The Experience is designed to give students the skills, experience, and confidence to become socially responsible leaders – agents of positive change who will find creative solutions to the challenges faced by their community.
“Educate! does more than simply help one individual at a time; rather our goal is to empower students to help others,” says Eric Glustrom, director of Educate! “We don’t want to just teach a man to fish – we want to empower him to teach others how to fish.”
375 secondary school students (11th and 12th grade) at 25 partner schools across Uganda will participate in the Experience. The Experience helps students create a vision and mission for their own lives, and then imparts the skills and confidence they need to work towards that vision. Key concepts in the Experience are personal leadership, principled leadership, community leadership.
The Experience has a strong practical component based on social entrepreneurship. Students work together to create social enterprises in their community, which is both profitable and has a positive impact on the society and environment.
Educate!’s mentors guide the students through the Experience. The mentors are top graduates from Ugandan universities who complete a rigorous selection and training process before leading students through the two-year Experience. In addition to teaching the leadership curriculum, mentors are role models, providing encouragement, support, and advice to the students at each school.
The curriculum for the Experience has been developed with the help of Educate!’s partner organizations: Cornerstone Leadership Academy, Uganda; African Leadership Academy, South Africa; and LEAD Intl, UK, among others.
The Experience takes Educate!’s proven model of investing in students through education, leadership experience, and mentoring to a larger scale.
About Educate!
The Beginning: Educate! was founded in 2002, when then 17 year-old Eric Glustrom traveled to Kyangwali Refugee Settlement in Uganda to create a documentary about the lives of refugees and bring awareness of their situation to people back in the U.S. The film, Dream Deferred, became a story about the incredible life of a refugee Eric's age, Benson Olivier. Educate! began by giving Benson a scholarship to go to high school.
Educate!, a non-profit organization, now awards scholarships to refugees in Kyangwali Refugee Settlement providing students with a powerful combination of high quality education, mentoring, and leadership experience. The Educate! scholarships empower students to develop solutions to the challenges faced by their community and country. The work of the Educate! students – from building an orphanage, to starting a project that has sent over 30 refugees to school, to giving the people of Kyangwali hope for a better future – is the best testament to Educate!’s approach.
The Educate! Experience: Inspired by the success of the Educate! students in Kyangwali, the organization developed the Educate! Experience to expand its model to a country-wide scale and address the most fundamental challenge facing Africa: the lack of socially responsible leaders.
The Educate! Experience is a two-year program for high school students, or Educate! Scholars, that consists of two components: 1. An innovative curriculum in personal, principled, and community leadership, and 2. The creation of a project that effectively addresses a problem in their community. Educate! Scholars are guided through the two-year Experience by Educate! mentors, recent graduates of universities in Uganda who complete a rigorous selection and training process.
The Experience empowers Scholars to become socially responsible leaders in their schools, communities, and future careers who will develop innovative solutions to the vast problems facing Uganda and Africa at large. In February 2009, 375 Scholars led by six mentors at 25 partner high schools across Uganda will begin the first year of the Experience.
Vision: Educate! envisions an Africa in which all students are prepared to better their communities and develop solutions to the challenges facing their continent.
Mission: To educate and empower the next generation of socially responsible leaders in Africa.
For more information visit: www.EducateAfrica.org
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Educate!, an organization that aims to empower the next generation of socially responsible leaders in Africa, announced a new two-year program, the Educate! Experience, that will reach 375 high school students across Uganda in February 2009.
The students participating in the Experience complete an innovative two-year leadership curriculum that includes the creation of a project that effectively and sustainably addresses a community need. The Experience is designed to give students the skills, experience, and confidence to become socially responsible leaders – agents of positive change who will find creative solutions to the challenges faced by their community.
“Educate! does more than simply help one individual at a time; rather our goal is to empower students to help others,” says Eric Glustrom, director of Educate! “We don’t want to just teach a man to fish – we want to empower him to teach others how to fish.”
375 secondary school students (11th and 12th grade) at 25 partner schools across Uganda will participate in the Experience. The Experience helps students create a vision and mission for their own lives, and then imparts the skills and confidence they need to work towards that vision. Key concepts in the Experience are personal leadership, principled leadership, community leadership.
The Experience has a strong practical component based on social entrepreneurship. Students work together to create social enterprises in their community, which is both profitable and has a positive impact on the society and environment.
Educate!’s mentors guide the students through the Experience. The mentors are top graduates from Ugandan universities who complete a rigorous selection and training process before leading students through the two-year Experience. In addition to teaching the leadership curriculum, mentors are role models, providing encouragement, support, and advice to the students at each school.
The curriculum for the Experience has been developed with the help of Educate!’s partner organizations: Cornerstone Leadership Academy, Uganda; African Leadership Academy, South Africa; and LEAD Intl, UK, among others.
The Experience takes Educate!’s proven model of investing in students through education, leadership experience, and mentoring to a larger scale.
About Educate!
The Beginning: Educate! was founded in 2002, when then 17 year-old Eric Glustrom traveled to Kyangwali Refugee Settlement in Uganda to create a documentary about the lives of refugees and bring awareness of their situation to people back in the U.S. The film, Dream Deferred, became a story about the incredible life of a refugee Eric's age, Benson Olivier. Educate! began by giving Benson a scholarship to go to high school.
Educate!, a non-profit organization, now awards scholarships to refugees in Kyangwali Refugee Settlement providing students with a powerful combination of high quality education, mentoring, and leadership experience. The Educate! scholarships empower students to develop solutions to the challenges faced by their community and country. The work of the Educate! students – from building an orphanage, to starting a project that has sent over 30 refugees to school, to giving the people of Kyangwali hope for a better future – is the best testament to Educate!’s approach.
The Educate! Experience: Inspired by the success of the Educate! students in Kyangwali, the organization developed the Educate! Experience to expand its model to a country-wide scale and address the most fundamental challenge facing Africa: the lack of socially responsible leaders.
The Educate! Experience is a two-year program for high school students, or Educate! Scholars, that consists of two components: 1. An innovative curriculum in personal, principled, and community leadership, and 2. The creation of a project that effectively addresses a problem in their community. Educate! Scholars are guided through the two-year Experience by Educate! mentors, recent graduates of universities in Uganda who complete a rigorous selection and training process.
The Experience empowers Scholars to become socially responsible leaders in their schools, communities, and future careers who will develop innovative solutions to the vast problems facing Uganda and Africa at large. In February 2009, 375 Scholars led by six mentors at 25 partner high schools across Uganda will begin the first year of the Experience.
Vision: Educate! envisions an Africa in which all students are prepared to better their communities and develop solutions to the challenges facing their continent.
Mission: To educate and empower the next generation of socially responsible leaders in Africa.
For more information visit: www.EducateAfrica.org
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