Highlights from Young Women's Leadership Conference

KIND's young women leaders embody the ideal of leaders who serve others. As they completed their year training, they immediately began to implement(and in some cases, expanded) projects developed to address problems in their communities. During the program, ten of the young women submitted proposals to KIND to secure seed funding for projects they wanted to implement in their communities. Of these, KIND funded six projects that covered youth and conflict resolution, emergency support for children internally displaced due to ethnic conflict, HIV/AIDS, a short documentary on women leaders, and leadership development for young girls. The young women began implementing these projects in 2003 and will complete them in 2004. [Please refer to the left for full list and description of grants].

Aside from these, two other members of the 2003 class received funding from the African Women's Development Fund for a proposal they wrote during their seminar on Designing a Community Project on HIV/ AIDS. Their project was implemented on December 1st, International AIDS Day.

Pictures of the Young Women's Leadership class of 2004