Duval attends youth leadership programme |14 June 2016

Stephanie Duval is the first Seychellois to attend the UNOSDP youth leadership programme taking place in Bradenton, Florida, USA.

Duval, an executive member of the Seychelles Women and Sports Association (Swasa) and the National Olympic Academy of Seychelles (NOAS), is among the delegates at the 21st United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace (UNOSDP) youth leadership programme which began on June 6 and will end on June 18.

The programme brings together youths from South and Central America, Asia, Africa and the USA who are currently working on grassroots sports for development projects in the communities and who have been identified as future leaders and role models in the communities they work in.

Around the world, many highly motivated youths work tirelessly to support their communities through Sport-for-Development-and-Peace (SDP) projects.

Most of these youths have only very basic education levels, limited resources with which to carry out their projects and do not have a proper forum where they can learn best practices or develop their leadership skills.

Thus, the idea of a ‘Youth Leadership Programme’ was conceived in order to support such youths by giving them access to theoretical and practical training needed to improve both their projects and their own professional progress, and by supporting them once they go back to their communities.

It is in fact the UNOSDP office in Geneva that selected Ms Duval for the programme as she had to apply for the programme which was advertised online.