Leadership for life training

It is interesting how when you go to a place, you are always drawn to like-minded

people. So, I have been in Nyeri for some time now and Sam Kairu art and events

coordinator of Zawadi society always gets me to be at the right place and at the

right time:)



Last two weeks it was at the golf club, and this past week it has been at the

Children and Youth empowerment centre at Thunguma, Nyeri, for the Albert Schweitzer

leadership for life programme.

The training organized by Alan Kerin’s projects it is an inception of Foroige’s eight

programs since inception in 1952. Having been in place in Ireland, this was the

first time it is being introduced into Kenya through a pilot, six months after it was

tried out in Zambia as the first African country.



It was really interesting going through topics like team building, communications

skills through the various games and activities. Thinking outside the box is key in

team building. I remember an activity where we were divided in groups and were meant

to make a square out of Kenyan flag pieces given.

Our over confident team would not merge with the rest of the groups and by the time

we got to know that that’s how we would complete the square, it was too late:(The

other teams weren’t convincing enough though:(

The more reflective topics like self awareness really got someone thinking about

their dreams and aspirations and especially the leadership goals.

I got a chance to interact with people from various parts of the country and the

facilitators Pearse and Kyra from Ireland were surely awesome!


Though I had to skip a day for an interview, learnt a lot in between and look forward

to being a leadership facilitator soon enough:)I am now part of CYEC and hope to be

involved in more projects. Sam Kairu, where are we going to next?