Young people with special needs from different settlements of the country will acquire leadership skills within the leadership training project DARE Leaders Academy that is a follow-up of the DARE Social Fashion Show initiated by Nati Vozian, IPN reports.
DARE Leaders Academy is a leadership program with four specialized training courses centering on four themes, namely: collection of funds and financing of projects; finding of inner force and power to become a leader; digital inclusion, and oratory. “I noticed that many young people who today form part of the community of life models started their own projects and we decided to support and encourage them and to motivate them to further have an impact on their own lives and on the communities of which they form part,” stated Nati Vozian.
The project initiator voiced hope that after this series of training courses, the young people will be better prepared for implementing their own projects. The target group is the young people with disabilities, who work in organizations that provide support to persons with special needs, and the young people from socially deprived families. “We set the goal of giving an example to other leadership programs so that they cover the target group – the persons with special needs who have an enormous potential to grow and develop,” said Nati Vozian.
DARE Leaders Academy Ambassador, ex-minister of education Maia Sandu in the opening of the event said this initiative is new for her too. “We become leaders when we want to change particular things and to promote some ideas and when we want to learn something. Leadership skills are acquired by theory and practice too and this is what you should do when you leave this project,” she stated.
The young people who will attend the leadership academy want to learn how to become good leaders. “I expect that we, the persons with disabilities, will have greater accomplishments and will be integrated into society as a result of these courses. I want to be able to work in my country and I could also become a leader at certain moment,” program participant Elena has told IPN.
The first leadership program intended for young people with disabilities from Moldova will last for about a month. As many as twenty-five young people will be trained in the period.
