Springboard Foundation to groom one million emerging leaders
The annual Springboard Road Show is to groom over one million young Ghanaians for personal and business leadership over the next 10 years.
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The Road Show, which has become the biggest career and personal development platform in the country, has so far mentored over 150,000 young participants and emerging leaders nationwide since its inception a decade ago.
To do this, the Springboard Road Show Foundation has launched its AGENDA 2027, a ten-year mentoring blueprint anchored on three thematic areas - people, leadership and enablement.
At the launch which coincided with the 100-Day countdown to the 2017 road show in Accra, the Executive Director of Springboard Foundation, Reverend Albert Ocran, said that the Springboard Road Show has evolved into a national platform for human capital development and social transformation through its mentoring interactions to groom leaders across the nation.
He said the Agenda 2027, will commence in 2017 with the first 30,000 tertiary graduates, national service personnel and young entrepreneurs being coached to have a continental leadership agenda through regional events, community engagements and institutional outreaches. There will also be a new initiative in all ten regions to mentor and encourage young female business startups.
Helping shape dreams
Rev. Ocran said as part of the AGENDA 2027, both institutions and individuals were being given the platform to donate to help all 30,000 participants nationwide to attend the 2017 edition of the Road Show for free.
He said every individual donation of GH¢20 will give the chance to one student or young graduate to attend, explaining that this will reduce the burden on the corporate sponsors who bear about 60 per cent of the cost of organising the programmes.
“This year, we are saying that even for the GH¢20 that our students pay, let us take it off them and share it among us as Ghanaians. We at the Springboard Foundation want to give you a practical way to celebrate every testimony, promotion or answered prayer. Anytime you want to celebrate the goodness of God, in your life, remember a young person in Techiman, Hohoe, Asrankagwa or Wa and donate GH¢20 for that person to be able to dream,” he said.
2017 Road Show
The Springboard Road Show, an annual gathering of young executives, professionals and students, seeks to help individuals and organisations to achieve their full productive potential.
The 2017 edition is scheduled to start from Wa on January 28 and will run through all the regional capitals and end in Sunyani on March 8. The National Convocation will be held in Accra on February 25.
The launch marked exactly 100 days to the start of the 2017 Road Show. Last year’s road show which was the tenth edition, raised the number of individuals whose lives have been directly impacted across Ghana and beyond to 150,000.