Cebu Province youth to train as servant leaders

By Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc.
July 28, 2015

CEBU CITY – A thousand public high school students from more than 100 schools in Cebu province will undergo a leadership program where they would be trained before the year ends on how to be good servant leaders of the country.

The students would go through a Servant Leadership Program designed by the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc – Kool Adventure Camp and are expected to create change in their schools and communities.

The program aims to promote the principles of servant leadership through an adventure program, establish a common behaviour and personal improvement plan for the students to better execute their roles and responsibilities as young leaders.

“The debriefing process after each activity during the program was really helpful because it gave me the opportunity to discover what was wrong and what I must do. It also helped me identify my strengths and improve it even more,” shared Wryppner Wolter Wurbey Timbal, one of the participants.

The program would teach the students the 10 principles of servant leadership: listening, empathy, healing, awareness, persuasion, conceptualization, foresight, stewardship, commitment to the growth of people, and building a community.

The students who either already underwent the program or are set to experience the program are from 30 cities and municipalities of Cebu, namely: Alcoy, Alegria, Aloguinsan, Argao, Asturias, Badian, Balamban, Bantayan, Barili, Boljoon, Camotes, Consolacion, Cordova, Daanbantayan, Dalaguete, Dumanjug, Ginatilan, Madridejos, Malabuyoc, Medellin, Minglanilla, Moalboal, Oslob, Pinamungajan, Ronda, Samboan, Santander, Sibonga, Tuburan, San Fernando.

The first 200 student leaders have completed the training last June and first week of July. The next sessions so all 1,000 students will be able to finish the program will be conducted in the next five months, or until December, 2015.

KAC has been offering adventure education programs for leadership and team development for youth and professionals for the last decade. It is a program under the Leadership and Citizenship focus area of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI). It has recently opened the Philippines’ first fully dedicated adventure education center last August 2.