Eighty-eight young people, including a 12-year-old boy, graduated on Sunday from the Youth Leadership Training Programme, which was hosted at the Madewini Training Centre on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway, by the Office of the Presidential Advisor on Youth Empowerment.
According to a press release from the Ministry of the Presidency, the Youth Leadership Training Programme is divided into two modules; the first features lessons in leadership skills, event planning, communications, effective public speaking, meeting procedures and setting up youth organisations, while the second focuses on skills such as writing reports and minutes, the formulation and implementation of policy, how to conduct meetings as well as social psychology and team building exercises.