Creating leaders for tomorrow

The Community Leadership Academy (CLA) assists young leaders in community structures such as sports organisations, cultural associations and religious communities to improve their skills to launch and manage meaningful community projects that address local needs.

 In this sense, the programme:

  • strengthens social cohesion, i.e. the network of relationships in a community;
  • strengthens social structures, such as care centres and food distribution projects in local communities;
  • builds social trust; and
  • restores hope through the mobilisation of communities to work for a common vision.

The CLA is a unique institution that fosters leadership skills and creative entrepreneurship that is mobilised for community development projects in local communities.  Through its programmes community initiatives are supported and hope is given to impoverished communities.

 

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COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ADAPTED FOR HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED CARE

The Community Leadership Academy has been adapted for the training of home and community-based care givers.

Training Workshops have been offered during 2010.

An application to continue with this programme in 2011 has been submitted.

For more information on the project brief, click here.

 

Heaven’s Nest

This emergency foster care centre in Ottery has been of service to 198 children. Out of this total, 186 children have been placed back with a family or in foster or adoptive care while 12 children remain with the centre. The centre is operated in partnership with the EFSA Institute’s Community Leadership Academy. For more information on this project, click here.

Picture and caption dated April 2009.