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Leadership Village grabs attention in KSA

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia:

During the 87th anniversary of Toast Masters International, Leadership Village YLP (Young Leaders Programme) was presented to a group consisting foreign nationals including members from KSA, Philippines, Lebanon, Syria and India. The paper was presented at the Toast Masters Rabigh chapter.

The paper was presented by Mr.Rajendran Kezhakkeppatte , who works for RAWEC (Rabigh Arabian Water & Electricity Company). The paper was well received and the audience expressed their admiration for the Leadership Village project and its young leaders.

How it all began:

During one of the TM sessions Mr.Rajendran was asked this question:
"How you got initiated to leadership?"
His answer was a big surprise to everyone.
"Through my daughter Pooja!"

The story of Leadership Village was introduced then and there and all the members were curious to know more. All this led to the paper presentation of Leadership Village and now it is our pleasure to announce here that this humble village inititive has started creating tiny ripples in many corners of the world.

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Leadership Village - a successful Indian Village story

Wayanad

On November 1,1980, the state of Kerala witnessed birth of a new promised land. On this day, Wayand – a place bestowed with nature’s bounty, was declared as the 12th district of Kerala. A land of deep rooted culture, electrifying myths, rugged terrains resembling wild west movies, a green canopy of tropical forests swaying to spicy winds, megalithic carvings on rock formations– a mystical land indeed. Wayanad boasts some of the highest hill ranges in the state and the Winding hairpin bends and ridges make the journey up the ranges an exciting experience

Located 700 – 2100 ers above sea level, Wayanad is strategically positioned among the states of Karnataka, Tamilnadu and its motherland, Kerala. Wayand also shares borders with seven districts of three states namely Kozhikode, Malappuram and Kannoor in Kerala, Mysore, Kudaku, Chamaraj Nagar in Karnataka and Neelgiri in Tamilnadu. A strange land with diverse geographical and topographical features, a place of paradoxes facefeatures welcomes you for a much rewarding peep into a strange and successful inspirational story.

Leadership Village YLP

Leadership Village YLP ( Young Leaders Programme) was born out of a passion to empower the villages of Wayanad with inspirational leadership training based on training strategies on par with global standards. Leadership Village YLP strives to create the first "leadership Democracy" ever in the world in Wayanad. It is undertaken with the support of villagers, students, parents, teachers, and civic associations.The vision of Leadership Village YLP would bring in a revolutionary change - a change that can only be achieved when the young generation is pointed towards their true potential and when they are shown the true change they could create in themselves and in their communities.

Founders

Leadership Village YLP was founded by Laila Saein (Chief Editor - facefeatures), Sangeeth Varghese (founder-LeadCap Trust) and Anil Emage (founder-AFRC). The project is dynamically catapulted to many corners of Wayanad with the path breaking leadership initiatives of school children and Young Leaders of the project. The YLPs of the project are Remeez Roshan, Pooja Raj and Ramsheena who are well trained and now train children of other schools as part of Leadership Village Young Leaders training programs.

A village success story

What makes Leadership Village interesting and inspiring? The entire success story is based on the concept of democratizing leadership and the core vision of leadership followed by the promoters is "leadership is a decision" and anyone can be a leader once he/she makes a strong decision to make a change.

Leadership Village was launched in 2009, which was inaugurated by Mr.Shreyamskumar, member of legislative assembly.

Leadership Village is based on two simple concepts:

Leadership Libraries: Is essentially a small village library of leadership and motivational books, gathered from across the world through book collection drives and donations. But the real concept revolves around weekend discussions, where the village youth gather and one person narrates the learning from a book that he has read. That way, every week, someone or a team of two or three people would have read a book and would have passed on the knowledge to several others.

Living Libraries: Monthly meetings, where experts from various realms are invited to the village to have dialogues and conversations. These experts share with the villagers their initial struggles and how they surmounted them. These are again expected to expand the villager's horizons.

Focus

ndividuals 15-25 years oldEmpowerment of these individuals through creation of self-awareness - that leadership is not reserved for a select few, but for everyone who wants to discover their true potential; that leadership is a personal decision, rather than a position or a set of skillsHaving achieved this self-awareness, we shall mentor these individuals to help them discover their hidden skills – in the areas of communication, self-motivation, problem solving, decision making etc.In the next step, we shall enable these self-aware leaders in conceptualizing and implementing larger causes that can value-add to the society

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Wayanad celebrates Global Dignity Day

Report - Laila Saein ff India News

Wayanad: On 20 October 2011 The Young Leaders programme of Leadership Village with the active support of teachers and students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Wayanad celebrated Global Dignity Day, noble initiative of Young Global Leaders from World Economic Forum.

“The mission of Global Dignity is to implement the universal right of every human being to lead a dignified life. We all have the ability to increase the dignity of others and thus we increase our own dignity.

The dignity approach works on all levels: it works for children and for adults, it works for men and for women, and it works on the micro and macro level.

Global Dignity is an autonomous non-profit, non-criticism and non-partisan initiative. We wish to be inspiration-based: commending and encouraging best practice and dignity-centered leadership.”- from Global Dignity official site.

Headmistress of JNV Wayanad Ms.Shanthy inaugurated the event. In her talk with the students she stressed the need of developing social dignity among students and how important and essentials it is to identify the dignified real self-hidden deep within each one of us. External facilitators of the event were Laila Saein , Pooja YLP, RoshanYLP and Anil Emage. The facilitators shared Dignity Stories with the students.

A lively discussion unfurled which was led by the headmistress Ms.Shanthy and everyone joined her. Later Dignity Videos were shown. After this students were invited to the conference hall of the school where they shared Dignity stories with the help of facilitators. After that children formed a “Dignity Circle”, they cheered and pledged for Global Dignity day and in their own terms what Dignity meant to them.

Global Dignity Song - Nadira X

A new song entitled "Dignity" premiered at the Global Dignity Day Forum in Helsinki, Finland. The world premiere of "Dignity" was experienced by over 1000 Forum attendees at Espoo Arena. The song was written and composed by evolutionary musician Dave Stewart and performed by up-and-coming lyrical hip-hop artist Nadirah X in support of Global Dignity Day. "Dignity" captures the great spectrum of ways in which people can express dignity and have a positive impact on the world. The song is also available for download free of charge at the link below: