By: Tiragalo Josephine Masibi
This week was more of a self-finding journey for me as a leader and as a person. The highlights of the activities for me was Youth Participatory Action Research principals and the Clifton Strength approach to personal development as a leader. I learned practical strategies of involving the youth in community engagement as a way to understand youth challenges, youth solutions to youth problems as perceived by the youth and the meaning youth attach to their environments as well as how these influence youth livelihoods. I also learned that leadership is a journey which requires one to truly understand themselves, mostly their strengths and how to maximize these strengths to bring about positive change. I intend to use the strength-based approach to develop my strengths, to work on balancing the power in my strengths as well as how to manage the edges. I enjoyed the community celebration of 4 July in Monroe with the 1025 church community, in which we had a community cookout and fireworks. Finally, we wrapped the weekend with a victorious soccer play between us, University of Georgia, Athens Fellows, Georgia State University and Clarke University. The UGA Fellows beat both teams with 2 and 3 to nil respectively.
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