Volunteerism goes district wide

Having completed our tour of the district to speak about youth volunteerism, Saturday was the first day of training for our new recruits. Until this point, we had only briefly visited them in their villages to talk about all the benefits volunteerism can bring to a community, now we are actually giving them the skills they need to create and achieve their goals. Of course, no event like this gets started without a name game. This was by far the hardest one I had ever played, you have to listen to your teammates (who are yelling in a number of languages) and try to guess who is sitting behind you...and remember his/her name.

I am thrilled about these trainings because:

[+] We have incredibly active participants/volunteers

[+] Like the summer leadership course that was started by Nadya and Sharon, this is a program where youth are teaching youth...SusTAinABIlitY!

[+] The youth in town already have an arsenal of skills including leadership, teamwork, and public speaking (not that they aren't constantly evolving), but the youth from these villages have many more areas of needs than the youth in my town. Building relationships with them means that I could opening the doors to a lot more work in my district as a whole.

[+] It is my partner's first chance to stand on the instruction side of the line. She is actually so active, some of the other youth trainers asked her to not talk so much!