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District 1020 - Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA)
What is RYLA about?
RYLA is Rotary's own program to encourage the development of future community and business leaders and succeeds by:
- helping them to find out who they are
- creating a testing environment for them to operate in
- challenging them both physically and mentally
- supporting them while they deal with fears that hold them back
- teaching them how to be effective servant leaders
- encouraging them to get involved in the wider world
- making it all fun
How do we do it?
By combining the best of outward bound activities with current best practice in leadership training all cumulating in a final challenge to:
- put the future leaders under pressure
- apply the skills they have acquired during the week
- work effectively as a team when tired and stressed
- discover the benefits of delegation
- recognise and utilise skills in others
- work to tight deadlines
- understand the problems of leadership
- learn from their own mistakes
What attendees say about RYLA
- Amazing
- Life changing
- Challenging
- Stretching
- Exciting
- Unforgetable
- Strangers become life long friends
- Fun
- Fabby Dooo!
Find out more about the RYLA experience here (Broadband speed internet connection recommended).
What you can do
- If you are a Rotarian simply ensure your club is supporting the District 1020 RYLA program by having a budget, finding, selecting and sending candidates to the week long course.
- If you have found this by chance, you are (or know someone) between 15 and 18 and you want the opportunity to attend either the male or female week, E-mail: ryla@rotary1020.org.uk for more information.
- Note: the average age of attendees is 17 and that the week is wholly funded by the sponsoring Rotary Club.
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