Organisation Urges Investment In Youth Leadership Skills

Chief Volunteer of ServeLead Global, an NGO, Mr Joledo Oyewole, yesterday underscored the need for investment in platforms for developing leadership skills among young people, to achieve growth.
Oyewole, a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow, gave the advice in his address at the grand finale of the Leadercom 2019 event held in Abuja.
The event on the theme, “my journey, my truth” was sponsored by Social Good Fund (SGF), an NGO, based in California, U.S.
According to Oyewole, our desire is to enable the youth to be able to communicate great ideas in presentations.
Oyewole said “we heard of the Not Too Young to Run Bill; but we feel it should not be not too young to run, but not too young to dream.
“This is because not all of us want to be politicians; we just want to have a platform to deliver our dreams and that is what informed the Leadercom event.
“Governments at all levels must give youths the display place to dream through the creation of platform for them to express themselves.
“Once they can express themselves and be listened to in a democracy, they would be able to contribute their quota meaningfully to national growth.”
He mentioned that the event attracted 11 trainers and 17 participants across the country through application on the social media.
Speaking, Director of Project Development of SGF, Mr Oliver Hack, said that the event was designed to enable youths to turn their ideas into presentations that could pass life messages and impact their society.
According to him, the event cost 300 U.S. dollars per-participant and my organisation will be looking for a revenue model to sustain it in 2020.