Inviting Youth Leaders…

Are you between 18-35 years, initiated a social change project and wish to:
•    Strengthen your social change initiative and work with other youth-led groups?
•    Ignite change within your group and learn from experienced mentors?
•    Focus and contribute to youth development with financial support for 12 months?

Then read on!

Pravah and Commutiny the Youth Collective (CYC) invite you to apply to participate in two youth leadership support programmes.

Change Looms & Learning and Leadership Journeys (LLJ) are leadership and organisational development programmes that support, encourage and recognise young change leaders and their teams who have started and are running independent projects or organisations working towards social change. These programmes offer opportunities for intensive personal and organizational development.

The two programmes support young change leaders through:
-    Collective and individual opportunities of learning: In areas such as self awareness for transformation, working in groups, design, analysis and development of social change projects, stakeholder engagement, resource management and perspective building on social issues
-    Mentorship linkages: to facilitate and support self and organisational development
-    Financial assistance: for programme activities, organisational development, learning and skill building.

These programmes together have supported more than 40 youth-led organisations and 65 individual change leaders in the last five years.  Currently, we are looking for young change leaders whose initiatives engage with other young people in meaningful ways - working to empower and build the leadership of young people on aspects such as employability, self-development, education and other social issues.

Some of the issues young change leaders have been working on include: prevention of child sexual abuse, rights of homeless people, theatre for social change, awareness of nomadic tribes of Maharashtra, institutional care of mentally-challenged destitute children, gender & women’s empowerment etc.

Who can apply?
•    Founders/initiators (between the ages of 18-35 years) of their own projects or organisations working for social change
•    Their projects / organisations should have been on-going for at least one year with long-term plans for social change
•    The initiatives should have a meaningful engagement with youth
•    The project / organisation should be implementing work directly on the ground, and
•    The leaders must have an excitement for self-transformation in their engagement with social action.

You will be expected to…
•    Develop and implement a plan of action for the duration of the programme
•    Participate consistently in group processes (workshops, events, discussions) and contribute to group learning, and
•    Proactively avail learning and mentoring opportunities.

Please note:
o    Applicants must have working knowledge of Hindi and/or English
o    Teams applying for Change Looms-LLJ need to designate an anchor who will be the contact person throughout the process
o    We are unable to entertain applications from for-profit enterprises, one-off or event based initiatives, online initiatives, new projects of existing organisations and support organizations.
o    Last date for submitting applications is April 15th, 2012.

Click here for the 2012 Application Forms!

For more information contact;
Navneet Prakash/Apoorva Vasudev at 011-26213918, 26291354
Or
Ramneek Banga at 011-26447609
Or
Email: changelooms.llj@gmail.com