Leadership Development – Legacy’s approach

Legacy International’s  approach to youth leadership development allows for all types of styles and skill levels.  For us, leadership is based upon the ability to respond to the time, place, and circumstances one finds oneself in. Our dynamic peace building and dialogue workshop is a great place to  build and practice leadership skills.

The Global Youth Village environment encourages an attitude, an identity, a set of new skills and understandings that allow leadership to emerge from individuals.  Young people see the source of leadership coming from within rather than solely on public acknowledgment.  It becomes solidified, based on the confidence of “this is what I am” rather than upon the effort of “this is what I am trying to be.”  Our primary teaching method is experiential in a highly supportive environment.  In all aspects of GYV - workshops, action teams and cabin life individuals are  given opportunities. Young people are encouraged to try new things and develop teamwork skills.  Young people leave with:

• Improved self-confidence, maturity; a positive outlook on life; renewed hope for the future
• Heightened commitment to active participation in the future of their communities
• Increased understanding of various cultures, global issues, and their interconnectedness
• Reinforced ability to respect people as individuals with unique strengths and weakness rather than to stereotype individuals by ethnic, national, racial or cultural prejudices and biases
• Increased self-discipline in setting, working towards, and achieving group and individual objectives
• Strengthened ability to organize and carry out community improvement projects successfully
• Enhanced ability to promote understanding among people
• Improved ability to find win-win solutions to interpersonal disputes and disagreements
• Acquired new perspectives on their own day to day dynamics

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Teamwork, Leadership and Community

Community building is very important at the Global Youth Village international summer camp. GYV  youth participate in various settings and are invited into discussion and encouraged to cultivate new skills, or trying something new  together with their friends .   Teamwork, Leadership and Community  time is an opportunity to engage in  leadership training   Each afternoon, participants are  mixed into “families” of 9 students.   Over the course of a session, each “family” experiences the following:

1. A discussion on belief systems
2. A nature walk
3. An art project “what does home mean to you”
4. Serving our GYV community
5. Discussion of U.N. Millennium Development Goals
6. Stress relief methods
7. Team building exercises

Read more articles about developing Leadership skills at the Global Youth Village

• Service and Advocacy
• Summer Participants Volunteer at Local Soup Kitchen
• GYV Alumni inspired to be a Social Innovator
• GYV Alumni Receives Prestigious Award

Service & Advocacy

At Global Youth Village international summer camp, service and advocacy are the themes of the Community Involvement Program (CIP). Youth have had good discussions on both of these topics and talked about what specific areas they are interested in advocating for. They  completed several service projects on campus and also helped build a home at Habitat for Humanity on Saturday. On Monday, everyone headed to RAM House (a soup kitchen) and prepared and served lunch to 130 needy individuals!  In the afternoon, participants went to another area non-profit, Rescue Mission, and packed backpacks for low-income children.  Today the group is meeting with representatives from the Southwest Food Bank, United Way, and the Red Cross.

Indonesians Launch Community Projects

Our 22 Indonesian students have returned home with plans to improve their communities.  Learn more about their projects. 

PROPOSED PROJECTS: GORONTALO

Barak and Awa: My Library is My Life

• Conduct a seminar at their school and five area schools about literacy/readership.
• Get the heads of each class (16 classes totaling 200 students) at their school to do a needs assessment as a way of evaluating what to purchase for the library; goal is 50-60 books.
• Redecorate the library (involving administration, student groups, local government, etc.)
• Start a school-wide class contest held each month (read-a-thon)

Fahri and Zein:             Culture for Our People

• Establish a community theater troupe focusing on traditional cultural performances; will draw young people from schools in the Bone Bolango municipal area.
• Establish a community magazine (published, not wall) that is entirely devoted to the writings of young people in the same area.
• Profits raised from selling the magazine and minor ticket prices for performances.
• Get other schools involved via promotion via seminars/presentations.

Siti and Yahya:             Healthy Canteen

• Their boarding school doesn’t have a canteen for students to eat in or provide food.  They want to build a canteen place that sells healthy food.  They’ll do a seminar at the school promoting healthy eating habits, a workshop for food sellers that sell at the school (five or six businesses) and build the canteen.
• After it is built as a model, will do workshops at 10-15 nearby schools, focusing on elementary schools so as to develop lifelong habits.  They’ll do presentations and workshops.

PROPOSED PROJECTS: BATAM

Qisty and Jeri:             School Environment Project

• Presentations about environmental issues at their school (there are 21 classes, 26 students per a class, and a total student body of 800 students.)
• Start daily school environmental patrols
• Recycle fair event with each class competing.  Money raised will be put back into environmental projects.

Ferry and Elsa:             English for All

• Start a community English class meeting 2x a week for 1^st and 2^nd grade children from an at-risk neighborhood.  20 students per class. Classes will  last 90 minutes.
• Get a wifi hook up for the classroom along with two computers.  Computers will have educational software for learning English installed and also be available for internet use and computer training.
• Get school supplies for the students.
• Monthly English competitions for the students to keep learning fun.

Debby and Arin:             Cleaning Out Our Environment (COE)

• Involving at least three high schools in their project
• Presentations at schools concerning environment – get facilities cleaned, separate trash, collect trash, etc.  Schools will be involved in the craft project.
• Start a recycled craft project.  After cleaning and sorting trash, they’ll put non-organic trash to use by remaking it as crafts which will then be sold.
• Crafts will be sold and proceeds will go towards buying cleaning supplies for involved schools.

PROPOSED PROJECTS: CILEGON

Nia and Aldi: Recycle for Farmers

• Involves seven area schools.
• Presentation at local schools, separating trash, and starting a program where they will collect the organic trash from the participating schools to compost.
• After three weeks of composting, they will provide the compost to area farmers as free fertilizer for their crops.  They’ll be collecting hay from the farmers to assist in the composting and as a way of involvement.
• Goal is to provide compost to at least ten farmers and provide 50kg of compost a month.

Reza and Sasky: One Hole Change the World

• Fundraising and education program to raise money and volunteers for building biopori.  Done through proposals, seminars, and school area competitions (photography contest with environmental theme as an example).
• Once funds are raised, students will create the tool for building biopori.
• Create 20 biopori in 10 area schools
• Create no littering signs and other pro environmental slogans in the same schools.

Cahya and Tulloh: Separation of Rubbish

• Seminars on garbage issues at 5 area schools (mixed elementary, middle, and high schools)
• Plant at least 10 trees at each of these schools.
• Get separate trash cans and signs for separating organic and non-organic trash at each school.

Syarief and Darwin: Let’s Start to Keep Our School Clean and Healthy

• Fundraise to get supplies for cleaning the schools and organize seminars about cleaning/environment at seven area schools.
• Establish weekly cleaning days at each school.  Organic trash will go into Nia and Aldi’s project.
• Organize a cleaning contest between the 7 area schools with a trophy that moves to the cleanest school each semester.
• Talked about ministry of education involvement.

Gandung and Shopi: Garbage is our Friend – 3 pg translate

• Separate garbage at their school and five area schools (presentations – one day seminars on environmental issues and recycling)
• Recycle fair between classes at the six schools.
• $$ raised via the recycle fair will be used to buy food that will be dispersed to poor families.

The Indonesian Youth Leadership Program is

Supported by the US Department of State – Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

Summer Participants Volunteering at Local Soup Kitchen

This summer several students volunteered at the RAM House in Roanoke, VA.  The RAM house, also known as Roanoke Area Ministry, is a non-profit organization that serves the Roanoke Valley by providing a safe shelter for the homeless, a nutritious lunch, and emergency financial aid to those in need.  The RAM house opens its doors to those in need 365 days a year from 8:00am to 4:00pm

Some of the participants helped to prepare and serve lunch, while other participants assisted with administrative tasks.   Many of the participants said they plan on volunteering more within their local communities after such a positive and rewarding experience.

GYV Alumni Inspired to be a Social Innovator

Amir Dajani attended the  Global Youth Village in 1986, 1987 and 1989 where his experiences inspired him to become a social innovator and a global citizen.  Today,  Amir is Deputy Managing Director of Bayti Real Estate Investment Company, where he oversees the Rawabi project, the first Palestinian planned community. Dajani directs all technical and business development operations of the Rawabi project and oversees and coordinates donor community participation.

Prior to joining Bayti, he worked in the Private Enterprise Office of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) West Bank and Gaza Mission in Tel Aviv. In this capacity, he oversaw the design, implementation and monitoring of multimillion-dollar institutions and capacity-building programs, along with trade facilitation and loan guarantee programs. Dajani formerly worked on a European Commission-funded program as the small- and medium-size enterprise (SME) technical assistance specialist in Jerusalem, gaining extensive experience in private-sector sustainable growth and sustainability.

Amir received a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College (Dublin) and a master’s degree from Sheffield Hallam University in the United Kingdom.

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