The Leadership Revival II Camp Report 2014

CITY Summer Leadership Camp 2014:
The Leadership Revival II
Camp Report 2014
AN INITIATIVE OF EAGLES’ HOPE
CHARITY FOUNDATION

From the H.O.P.E Director
If you are reading this report, chances are that you were
instrumental in making our leadership camp a huge success, either
as a partner, volunteer or as a sponsor. First let me express my
sincere gratitude to you for joining hands with us in our quest to
raise a new generation of leaders.
The 2014 edition of the C.I.T.Y Summer Leadership Camp was
extremely inspiring, not just for the campers or volunteers, but for
everyone on the executive team. It is indeed a great privilege and
honor to affect lives in both measurable and immeasurable ways.
My personal experience in the days leading to the camp and during
the camp re-energized my conviction and resolve that our model
indeed works.
Last year’s camp was oversubscribed; as only a small proportion of
the applicants could attend the camp either as a volunteer or
camper. We introduced several new components to our learning
and development curriculum and significantly upgraded our
methodology thereby achieving more impact.
As we forge ahead, it is our goal to scale up our operations to reach
out to more people. In respect to our C.I.T.Y (Catch & Inspire Them
Young) programs, we plan to implement more sustainable,
systematic, scalable and strategic interventions in our quest to
spark up a leadership revival in Africa’s youths.
Have a Blessed 2015!
"We cannot always build the future for our youths, but we can build
our youths for the future" -Franklin Roosevelt
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From The Camp Director’s
Desk
Since the summer of 2011, it’s been an honor to provide a platform
for the empowerment and mentorship of teenagers In various states
across Nigeria.
With a focus on Leadership, H.O.P.E through the platform of CITY
Camp aims to facilitate the growth and development of the future by
training and empowering teenagers to be who they were created to
be.
It’s not a day’s job, but it’s a cause to which we are committed to and
with one program at a time, We shall build a future worth living in.
To every volunteer, partner, sponsor and all others who where a part
of the success of the 2014 Camp, we say a very warm thank you. Your
assistance and commitment to helping other people excel has
bolstered our organization’s efforts and helped us to achieve our
mission and impact the lives of campers.
Year after year, it’s always a great privilege to be a part of
transforming and enlightening the minds of young teenagers and we
are excited for the future and much more great feats we can and will
accomplish together
Yours in partnership,
Tochi Kanu- Ivi
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Executive Summary
CITY summer Leadership Camp is a leadership development camp
centered on imbibing life values and building capacity in the lives of
teenagers.
The 2014 edition of the Camp ran from Saturday, July 26th 2014 to
Sunday, August 3rd , 2014, hosting 200 students between the age
brackets of 13 – 18 years (inclusive). These students came from
private and government run schools as well as other youth centered
institutions such as youth correctional facilities and faith-based
teenage communities.. The theme of CITY 2014 Camp was “The
Leadership Revival II”. We believe that people are key to the
development of every home, every society and every nation. This
world needs leaders, not necessarily those who occupy position of
power, but who have uncovered their gifts, talents, mastered self and
are geared towards positive contributions to the lives of others. At
CITY Camp, it’s our goal to develop those leaders.
Camp activities were structured to deliver the leadership revival to
the campers. There were formal classes which covered topics such as
leadership, accepting responsibility, academic excellence,
Entrepreneurship and financial mastery, Personal mastery and
transformation and national development consciousness. Campers
were also challenged to think out of the box and proffer solutions to
real life challenges.
Campers were also guided on career choices through a workshop
session that featured professionals from various occupations such as
accounting, engineering, arts and entertainment to mention a few
There were fun games for everyone, both indoor and outdoor games
such as football, chess, monopoly and campers were able to bond
with one another and also with the volunteers through our buddy
system.
It was an amazing experience than words can express, seeing the
campers grow to bold leaders, burning with a passion to initiate
positive change in their schools, homes and communities.
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200 Campers were
present in one facility
70+ hands, hearts
and minds of
committed volunteers
09 Days of fun and
learning in a safe and
fun environment
2014
July 26 th to
August 3rd
0 cost to the
participants.
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20+ trusted and
committed partners
and sponsors
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CITY Summer Camp 2014
CITY summer Leadership Camp is
a leadership development camp
targeted at teenagers in the
society. The goal of the camp is
centered on imbibing leadership
and positive values and building
sustainable capacity in the lives
of teenagers. The 2014 camp is
the third edition of CITY Summer
Camp and the theme of the
camp was “The Leadership
Revival II”.
Registration for 2014 edition of
the camp included applicants from
Lagos, Oyo, Ogun and Calabar.
Selection was based on merit and
students from both private and
state owned institutions were duly
represented.
The participants were split into 8
different squads and usually
worked in teams during camp
activities with two volunteers
providing guidance as squad
leaders. The camp buddy system
that allocated a volunteer to every
four (4) campers also helped to
ensure that there was maximum
impact for every participant.
The summer camp featured
trainings in Leadership,
Entrepreneurship, Building healthy
relationship.
There were also intellectually
stimulating competitions, such
as; case challenge, Speak for
change and the Spelling Bee.
The career fair was a high point
for the participants. It featured
various practicing specialists in
engineering, fashion design,
Law, Social entrepreneurship
and many more.
The participants were also
exposed to hands on workshops
in tye and dye, bag making,
bead making, baking, make-up,
music/song writing among
others.
Another highlight was the movie
night which featured the
inspiring story of Gabby
Douglas, the first African
American woman in Olympic
history to become the individual
all-around champion at age 16.
It was indeed a huge motivation
for the teenagers and a
powerful example of what can
be achieved with hard work and
determination.
The Camp successfully
concluded with no major
physical incidents and the
participants returning safely to
their respective homes.
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The Leadership Revival
The leadership revival is all about
making the quest for leadership
development commonplace. It is
activating leaders everywhere. It
is helping people discover,
develop and deploy the leader in
them. It is making the
platforms and resources for
leadership development
available for every teen and
youth in Africa.
Inside every individual is a leader,
just as inside every seed is a tree.
If leadership is contribution,
service, accepting responsibility,
delivering change, motivating
participation, rallying people
around a compelling vision,
solving problems… Then can’t we
raise people to think and act in
that way?
Leaders are the
most important
variables in the
equation for change
and development.
Africa’s
greatest need
remains true
leadership.
We can help individuals to
discover and appreciate their
uniqueness (gifts, talents,
treasures);
We can inspire them to define
and develop their passions;
We can shape their perspective
towards service, contribution,
and accepting responsibility;
We can guide their orientation
towards the discipline
of leadership;
We can encourage and guide
them to develop character;
We can coach them in the other
techniques and fine details
about leadership.
In essence we can develop
leaders!
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Why Teen Leadership?
At CITY Camp, we believe
that teenagers in high
schools, the students
in elementary schools and
the youth in tertiary
institutions and in the
society at large are the
future.
If we inspire, develop and
train them in solid
foundation and principles of
true leadership, then we are
indeed securing the future.
The greatest asset of the
developed world, are developed
people- not infrastructure,
policies or buildings, but people .
Our needs assessment campaign across several High Schools (both
public and private establishments) revealed a lot of inadequacy in
awareness and understanding of what true leadership is among
teenagers. At CITY Camp, it’s our vision to raise a new generation of
leaders with a proper understanding of what true leadership is.
To us, the development of one teenager is the development of the
nation. Hence, we are committed to help shape their future by
providing the right influence and environment based on true
leadership principles. For one day, they shall grow to become the
decision makers and shapers of the future.
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Our Curriculum
It is our belief that the right mix of
capacity development oriented
trainings and real life inspirational
stories will do well in discovering
and developing the desired
potential in each participant.
Our curriculum is not based on
theoretical and abstract learnings
but on real life practicable
scenarios. We are constantly
modifying and enhancing our
methods to ensure that the
participants get the best hands-on
and mind engaging experience
from every classroom training or
activity.
We aim at enlightening our
participants on the core of
leadership, taking them from the
point of awareness of what
leadership is to the point of
practicing what leaders do. Apart
from the classroom trainings, we
engage the minds and hands of our
participants through the case
challenges where they work in
teams to proffer solutions to real
life issues.
A major highlight of our
curriculum is the CITY
Action Project, where
each participant,
working as an individual
or a group, identifies a
need in their immediate
community and employs
the hands and hearts of
others in the society to
meet that need.
CITY Action Project is usually
carried out by the participants
after the Camp and is always a
wondrous event, hearing how
much can be accomplished when
the mind is set to do great things.
Some projects executed by CITY
Alumni include: campaigns
promoting Green Initiatives,
awareness for recycling, climate
change, waste management and
other causes, organising their own
leadership seminars and welfare
trips and donations to orphanages.
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Our Training Method
The C.I.T.Y Camp's learning and
development program was built
using the experiential learning
model (ELM), developed by David
A. Kolb and Ron Fry.
Relationships, Innovation,
creativity ands Entrepreneurship
Educational Excellence, Problem
Solving Techniques, Critical
Thinking, Accepting Responsibility
(National Development
Consciousness) amongst others.
Campers gain concrete experiences
and engage in case challenges,
attending workshops, and
competing in several
developmental competitions. Also,
several seminars, trainings and
camp buddy session were built to
engage the campers in reflective
observations and abstract
conceptualisations on the subject
of leadership and other topics
across our thematic areas.
Our thematic areas include the
following: Leadership, Ethics and
Etiquette, Self-discovery series,
Building healthy
The curriculum
opens their hearts
to leadership, their
minds to think up
solutions to
problems and their
hands to do as
leaders would do
At CITY Camp, we make extensive
use of story-telling techniques,
mnemonics, videos, case studies,
several carefully designed class
exercises, team-building activities
to further drive our goal.
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Camp Tit-Bits
Food: Participants were fed breakfast
lunch and dinner prepared by the
kitchen staff of Bell’s Secondary
School. There were also snacks and
refreshments during the day and
during special programs.
Speak for change: The Speak for
change program is aimed at driving
research and advocacy in the
campers. The competition was done
at squad level. Each squad was given
a topic to research on and deliver a
compelling speech to drive positive
change.
Case Challenge: The Campers were
given 3 days to think up a solution to
any need they can identify within the
camp environment. They were also
given a start-up fee of 2000 NGN and
were required to make profit from
their capital. The challenge awoke
the creativity of many participants
and exposed them to business
principles such as marketing, planning
and basic accounting.
Sports: Sports were played at an
inter-squad level. The games include
football, volleyball, sack race and
relay race. Indoor games like scrabble
and chess were also available to
campers.
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Camp Tit-Bits
Spelling Bee: The spelling bee was also an
inter-squad game and was aimed at
improving the vocabulary and word
knowledge of the participants.
Movie Night: The Gabby Douglas Story
was the movie for 2014 Camp. It was also
a highlight for the campers. The lessons
learned from the movie was enormous
and many campers requested to watch
the movie all over again. The lessons from
the movie also resonated in our
curriculum and this made classes more
impactful.
Career Fair: The Career fair was so
successful that at the end of the
programme, we had many campers with
clear perspective of what they intend to
study or become in life. It was an
expository program that involved many
different occupations and practicing
professionals. There were also free books
given by career coach, Omozino to further
guide participants in making the right
career choices.
Workshop: This involved hands-on
training in bead-making, bag making,
pastries, tye and dye, photography, public
speaking and many more. The workshop
sessions ran for two days allowing
participants to switch classes or continue
in the craft of their choice.
Variety Night: The campers also had a
night to chill out and express themselves
in music, dance and drama.
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Leadership is not in
position, it’s in people
accepting responsibility.
The ‘R’ in Leadership is
responsibility. The world
needs people who will
accept responsibility for
a cause and for a people.
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Program Benefits
• Since inception in 2012, over 4000 teenagers across different schools
in Lagos and Ogun State have successfully participated in a C.I.T.Y
program, while over 520 teenagers from schools across the southwest
zone have been privileged to be a part of the C.I.T.Y Summer
Leadership Camp
• Feedback from schools and parents from the last two summer camps
have been tremendously amazing. Participants of CITY Leadership
camp have shown improvement in accepting responsibility, goal
setting and planning and leadership skills.
• A major testament to our impact is the award we received in
February, 2014 from the Lagos State Government and the Lagos State
Ministry of Education for the impact of the C.I.T.Y Program in schools
in Lagos.
• The benefit of leadership education – provided at this level cannot be
over emphasized. However, these type of training is not infused in the
academic syllabus.
• By supporting and promoting Leadership programs, we are playing a
huge role in influencing the future of the nation and Africa as a whole.
CITY Camp is set to provide a lasting platform for
teenage leadership growth and development,
using proven educational methods to achieve
positive outcomes..
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Impact to Participants
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Imagine students from
different backgrounds and
classes, exposed to leadership
principles.
Imagine them discovering
what leadership means and
learning about
entrepreneurship and
innovation.
Imagine them exploring their
potentials and developing a
new appreciation for their
homeland and culture.
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Imagine them grasping new
habits like goal setting, time
management, reading culture
and other skills.
Imagine the effect of this
program as these children leave
to be lighthouses in their
homes, schools and in the
nation.
Imagine the impact of this on
the future…
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Impact to the Community
We don’t stop at just trainings, we
empower our campers to be agents
of change in their homes, schools
and communities. At the end of
every camp, each participant is to
carry out a change project called CITY
Action Project, either as an individual
or as a team, to directly impact their
community positively. This change
CITY action project (CAP) is a
platform for teenagers to proffer
practicable solutions to problems in
their communities and take part in
nation building. CAP provides an
outlet for the teenagers to put into
practice all they have learned and
accept responsibility for a cause or
for a people. The goal of CAP is to
inspire teenagers to:
Solve a problem
Take the lead
Take Action
Projects undertaken by some of the
teenagers include:
Advocacy – creating a comic and
publishing educational and
empowerment articles. The images
on the comic were hand drawn by a
teenager, Idris Abdul, and shared on
Facebook to the rest of the world.
Trainings - Providing leadership
trainings to other students in their
school based on leadership
principles learnt on Camp. Another
program was organized in their
community to share the same
messages of leadership and
purpose. They went as far as
placing an advert on Eko fm to
create awareness on their program.
Relief Projects - Providing aid to
less privileged. Two different groups
embarked on this project. One of
the groups got their whole school
involved in the project.
Community Development - This
took the form of sensitizing the
community on the importance of
bush clearing and mobilizing them
to take part in bush clearing
exercise.
The leadership revival is
not a destination; it’s a
continuous journey of
self discovery and
contribution to
humanity
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B: I Believe in you
U: I Understand your issues
D: I want to help guide your Decisions
D: I Want to aid your Development
Y: You have a pal in me!
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Our Camper’s Speak
Because of the career fair , I
have the knowledge to help me
choose a career that suits me,
not one that will end up being
like punishment - Chinyere
H.O.P.E is building a new
generation - Anonymous
I’m so happy I came to this
Camp. I have seen so much
opportunities than ever
before – Ngozi, Camper of
the year 2014.
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Our Volunteer’s Speak
“Hands of volunteers are the hands that change the world”
This was a
dream come
true for me
- Remi
To have someone tell me “
thank you for giving me an
opportunity I may have
never had”…that was truly a
great moment for me -Silas
I met so many great people, I
am so blessed to be a part of
this - Temitope
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Our Partners
The success of CITY Camp could only have been achieved
through committed partnership, some of who choose to
remain anonymous. We couldn’t have done it without you.
Working together as partners in progress is one sure way we
can build a future worth living in.
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Who we are
HOPE Foundation since its inception, had been committed to driving
the transformation and catalytic development. CITY Camp is one of the
many programmes and initiative of HOPE.
Our Vision
• Our vision at H.O.P.E is to become a global non-profit
organization committed to influencing social change.
Our Mission
• To help other people excel at transforming their society by
enlisting, educating and empowering them to be effective
change agents.
Our Thematic Areas
• Research & Capacity Building Organization
• Youth Development
• Leadership Development & Advocacy
• Education
• Community Involvement and Development
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What we do
H.O.P.E Foundation maintain a portfolio of programmes executed at
various times in the year. Each program targets a specific audience and is
centered towards not just creating positive change but empowering
others to be change agents.
HOPE
Speak 4 Change Tell-a-vision DODOS CITY Programme Corper’s Action
Fund
This is an online
video competition
that seeks to
encourage young
people to lend their
voice to issues from
a positive,
individual/communi
ty driven, problem
solving point of
view . The aim is to
inspire and
incentivise our
society to think
positively, critically
and innovatively,
while also
encouraging them
to share ideas and
proffer solutions
that can inspire and
inform individual
and community
action.
Tell-a-Vision seeks
to be an Online
Ecosystem for
Change Agents that
will serve as the
following:
• A crowdsourcing
platform
• A knowledge
Sharing
Platform
• An e-learning
platform for
capacity
building
• A crowdfunding
platform for
users.
The David Oyedepo
Day Of Service is
set to imbibe the
spirit and culture of
sacrifice in people,
patterned after his
daily efforts to
impart, contribute
and show love
relentlessly.
in Martin Luther
King Junior’s words,
‘everyone can be
great because
anybody can
serve’. This is a call
for a mind shift
from selfcenteredness
to
selfless sacrifice.
CITY programmes
are educational,
training and
empowerment
platforms for
teenagers /youths.
Apart from CITY
Camp, Other CITY
Programs are:
• CITY Summer
schools
• CITY Weekend
Bootcamp
• CITY Fellows
Program.
Corper’s Action
Fund (CAF) aims is
to encourage and
empower Corp
members to
execute change
projects in their
local communities.
We provide
advisory, support,
mentorship and of
course a little seedfund
to chosen
applicants.
HOPE seeks to create platforms for rapid leadership
development and empowerment by creating an ecosystem of
leaders who acts as catalysts in the transformation of Nigeria.
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Future Program
Goals: 2015 Outlook
A constant goal for us is continuous
improvement.
We hope to increase our reach
across the various states in Nigeria.
We intend to host non-residential
summer leadership camps(schools)
in multiple locations this year, so as
to cater for more teenagers at the
same time.
It’s our goal to train more people
who can in turn provide similar
platform to other teenagers in
other parts of the country and the
world.
It’s our goal for 2015 to grow our
partnership and relationship with
other organizations, both private
and state owned. We will leverage
on these relationships and execute
more youth empowerment and
entrepreneurship trainings.
We also aim to enhance our
teaching methods and set up
follow up programs for the
teenagers so we can continuously
engage them even after the Camp.
It’s our goal to create an interactive
and user friendly website where
our Camp alumni and members of
the community can easily access
resources and training to support
their development.
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