Youth Leadership Project

*The following post is thanks to Heena Parkar from the Daily Tribune, issued in DT on April 16th.

(From left to right) The project's team with Sabeeka Al Shamlan, AIESEC's Director of Business Development (far right)

An international perspective of entrepreneur and leadership will be imparted to university students through a program organized by AIESEC Bahrain.

“The Youth Leadership Project will provide a chance to students to develop skills required for the global market,” said Director of business Development of AIESEC Sabeeka Al Shamlan.

A total of four universities will be participating in the program which will consist of a week -long sessions arranged by the organization in cooperation with Bahrain Development Bank(BDB).

“Royal University of Women and Bahrain polytechnic, are the two colleges participating, as of now. But we are trying to for two more colleges,” said Ms.Shamlan.

The project will be launched from the first of May and will take place every week for four weeks.

“The number of students from each university will range from a minimum of 17 to a maximum of 75,” added Ms.Shamlan.

The sessions will be stretched for four days in a week, for every university and will have two international facilitators speaking on the topic.

“The first session is basically understanding of oneself, like what limitations a student faces, after which team building will be the next topic, which is followed by linking leadership to Enterpreneurship,” added Ms.Shamlan.

The fourth day will include employees from BDB conducting sessions on their success stories and challenges they faced in their field.

 “We have done this to create a platform for Bahraini youth to help them to discover the leader within them so they can create opportunities for themselves,” said Ms.Shamlan.

The program also aims to conduct activities keeping in mind the requirements of Bahrain vision 2030.