This morning at my Club the young person whom we sponsored to attend the RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Award) programme spoke.
'Life changing' 'career defining' 'mentally challenging' 'physically demanding - especially the early mornings!!' were some of his phrases.
"If your goals aren't scary then they're just not big enough"
The organiser has penned a media release which reads:
We,
the Rotary Club of (name)/(organisation) have recently sponsored (name) from
(place) to attend a Rotary Youth Leadership Programme. This year the five-day
residential Programme is taking place at the Silverstream Retreat in Lower
Hutt. (Name) is among a group of 51 young adults, all of whom have been
sponsored, either by a Rotary club in the lower North Island, or by an
organisation. The Programme is residential and costs participants nothing.
They’re challenged physically and mentally and are exposed to a number of very
high profile speakers from the arts, business and Government, all of whom have
focused on the theme of this year of ‘Unleashing your Leadership Potential’.
We’ve
invited (name/s) to speak about his/her experiences at our club on (date). We’d
like to invite you to breakfast/lunch/dinner so that you can hear him/her/them
speak and interview him/her/them for an article in your paper. We feel sure
that you’ll be blown away by the story s/he’ll/they’ll have to tell you about
his/her/their experiences at RYLA and the possibilities for personal growth
that have been available to him/her/them.
Do we use these opportunities to promote the benefit of Rotary to our young people and the community? We should!!
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