The nationwide youth empowerment project, Goreto, is a campaign that aims to inform high school students about the need for development of scholarship, leadership and citizenship (SLC) aspects in their life. The campaign will provide inspirational empowerment sessions and capacity building trainings in ways that hone their intellectual and leadership abilities and equip them with 'changemaking' tools. Additionally, as a final outcome, it will help them devise their own sustainable community-oriented action programs in order to put their own ideas into practise.
The campaign will be kicked off from Kathmandu and over a period of almost three months, we will reach out to seventeen districts across all the five regions in development of the country. Officially, the campaign will then end at Dharan, Eastern Nepal.
We will make use of three major aspects to realize our goal: inspiration, sharing of personal stories, and capacity building sessions:
1. Inspiration: Nepali youth lack motivation to try out new ideas. This is not uncommon. The World Economic Forum's Global Education Initiative Report points out that this trend is fairly common and that most people are motivated to try out new ideas only when they see advantages for their own careers.
2. Sharing of personal stories: Nothing is more effective than using first-hand examples. This is why all of our trainers are recent high school alumni.
3. Capacity building sessions: This is the crucial aspect of this campaign, as we now move on to impact. This session will build on the inspiration that we instil within the young minds and prepare them to start creating change in their society.
Area of Activism:
Youth Work
Region
Asia
Country
Nepal
Changemakers involved
Nimesh from Guildford 2009
