Education
LEAD
A program designed for University Students and the Youth in general, it was based out of Eastern U.P
Leaders Accelerating Development Programme was an initiative where innovation met implementation, knowledge met experience and problems of social concern met solutions; hence bringing about a revolution. It was initiated in the year 2008 and partnered with colleges and Universities of Lucknow, Chitkara and Lovely Professional University, Punjab. LEAD mainly focussed on inculcating a solution oriented approach in the youth for every problem. Through this programme, the college-going Students would take up issues in their local area and come up with solutions in a fixed time frame. Therefore, it benefitted both the local people and the students who gained knowledge about problems on the ground and came up with effective solutions.
Popularly known as an Entrepreneurial Leadership Journey on Wheels, LEAD Prayana was an annual leadership journey, spread over 16 days, for individuals aged between 18-26, and was hosted in cities of Uttar Pradesh, Delhi NCR and Karnataka. Students got to interact with inspiring role models, visit important destinations, explore unique organizations, institutes and industries and learn team-building skills and much more.
This was an annual programme to celebrate young leaders, their innovation and hard work. All the innovative projects for the year were evaluated and the best were presented with awards wherein, each award-winning leader would share his/her entire journey of identifying a problem and landing at unique meaningful solutions.
When numbers speak about the action!
Impact
1600
Youth trained
1600
Community development activities
4
LEAD valedictory events
86
Youth undertook LEAD Prayana
2
LEAD Prayanas
105
45 days summer internship recipients
6
Districts covered
20
Colleges collaborated
300
Delegates participated in development dialogues
400
LEAD summit participants