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The project fosters leadership skills by emphasizing empathy, clarity, knowledge volunteerism, and in their various professional backgrounds.
The Stanbic Bank Head of Sustainability, Cathy Adengo said during the event that we are currently living in a dynamic world that is constantly changing.
Therefore, this means that we also need to be dynamic in our approach to innovation and leadership according to Adengo.
“The program provides unique skills on true leadership that differentiate the fellows that have gained from this training. Equipping young people with skills that are not taught in school, such as leadership, is a worthwhile cause. The bank is intentional about empowering the youth as we prepare them for the future under our corporate social responsibility function,” she said.
Every year, the project inducts outstanding young thought-leaders into a fellowship program.
They designed the program to train and orient values of self-advancement, integrity, social responsibility and socio-economic transformation.
To date, they have trained 68 people from various African countries, but primarily Uganda.
Most of these have backgrounds in business, media and journalism, social entrepreneurship, civil society, the arts, and university students.
Apparently, the program has been a great benefit since it has instilled participants with various skills that have helped distinguish them as emerging thought-leaders.
LèO’s partnership with Stanbic Bank over the past half decade has enabled the institute to increase the number of fellows. It has also helped improve the quality of the YELP Fellowship experience.
The fellowship teaches critical leadership skills that aim to help transform both the individual and the society around them.
This is accomplished through critical reflection sessions, conversations with leaders from various sectors. And peer-to-peer sharing, and readings on various leaders in Africa and around the world.
“The trainees from across East Africa and Africa at large, have since risen to leadership positions in their various workspaces in business, media and journalism, as social entrepreneurs, in civil society, the arts and the academic world,” Awel Uwihanganye, the founder of the Institute said.
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