Leave No Child Behind

Born to Shine

“Out of the Shadows – Women Leaders Arise” conference in Gulu, highlighted the need for Training and Mentorship. ‘Born to Shine – Women and Youth Survivor Leaders Training and Empowerment’ was designed in response, to equip these community-based leaders with the knowledge and skills to address the issues that are most important to them and to create sustainable change in their communities. The project had 4 stages: 1) Finding and mobilizing; 2) Developing the content; 3) Training and mentorship; 4) Remote Support.

We were based at Gulu, since it is the main city in the North and a vibrant hub of NPO activity, but we also wanted to include within our project scope: Lira, Soroti and neighboring districts, as well as Kitgum, Lamwo, Pader and neighboring towns and villages, which required traveling to those places and meeting with potential partners, looking for Women and Youth leaders with at least three of the following criteria:

  • survivors of conflict, abduction or displacement
  • currently working in a leadership or admin role
  • showing clear signs of leadership potential
  • currently active in community development
  • currently active in peace, justice and/or advocacy
  • most likely to implement the lessons learnt
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Training &

Mentorship

A bottom-up inside-out approach of understanding their needs and challenges, then developing all the training modules and content accordingly.

Participants learn about attachment psychology and the personality development of the child, as well as emotional self-regulation, social skills and personal power.
Participants learn about how memory works and in particular how trauma memories are imprinted into the body, heart, soul and mind, as well as healing therapies and treatments.
Introducing brilliant, innovative yet simple and practical community-based projects from around Africa, and exploring their approach and methods.
Participants learn about how to create their own funder database and funding strategy, how to write strong compelling proposals and how to develop campaigns.
Participants learn about the power of story, the art and science of storytelling, and then also how to plan, record and edit, how to produce videos and content.
Participants learn about how to create their very own communications and media and social media strategy, including how to share their work online.
Participants learn about how plan and set up their monitoring and evaluation framework and system as well as the indicators and tools/surveys.
Participants learn about various project management and event management topics that are relevant to the non-profit sector, focusing on doing the work well.
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