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A Female Leadership Programme launched in 2018 in Jersey by Jersey College Foundation will be expanding this Easter into Rwanda.
Thanks to financial support from Jersey Overseas Aid, LEAP Rwanda will take place at the Green Hills Academy with 50 students from across Rwanda joining. Speakers will include amongst others Yamina Karitanyi, the former Rwandan Ambassador to the UK.
Plans are already forming to make the LEAP Rwanda a pan-African event in 2024.
In 2022, LEAP had the pleasure to welcome six delegates and their High School Principal, Anna Bugabe, from the Green Hills Academy at Jersey College for Girls. During the 10-day programme, a plan was formed to launch the first LEAP programme outside the island in Rwanda.
Deputy Carolyn Labey, Jersey’s Minister for International Development, said: “JOA has been pleased to participate in the Jersey version of LEAP for several years, helping girls from across the world develop social enterprise ideas. Supporting girls’ education and promoting entrepreneurship provides the knowledge and empowerment needed for a rapid and sustainable way out of poverty.”
An innovative Female Leadership Programme, LEAP launched in 2018 at Jersey College for Girls. Bringing together students from all over the world to complete in a Dragon’s Den style pitch, the programme engages CEOs, Directors, entrepreneurs and other leaders from the community to train, inspire and mentor the participants.
International teams are tasked with designing a social enterprise project to solve one of the world’s many problems. At the end of the programme, the teams pitch their project to the Dragons to obtain funding to make it a reality.
Despite COVID interruptions, LEAP has gone from strength to strength since its inception. It has attracted students from as far as Japan in the east to Hawaii in the west.
LEAP gives students the opportunity to learn business and entrepreneurship skills and international teamwork; connect with professionals and companies; and most importantly be inspired by female leaders and leave believing they can and will be successful.
As an example of the inspirational outcome of the LEAP programme, last year Team Glow, received £1,700 of funding from the Dragons. They are now running their social enterprise project targeting primary school literacy across four continents in Taiwan, Rwanda, USA and Jersey. All before even graduating high school!
This year, in Jersey, the programme will take place at the Radisson Blu Waterfront Hotel. Jersey Finance, Oak Group, and JT Global, who also supported LEAP 2022, are just a few of the many corporate sponsors.
