Nairobi, 09 January, 2022 / 9:28 pm (ACI Africa).
The first group of participants in Together for a New Africa (T4NA), a network of former students of Italy-based Sophia University Institute and other young leaders across Africa, have graduated after completing a three-year leadership course.
In an interview with ACI Africa, Ernst Ulz, a Focolare Movement member involved in the leadership initiative said that those who had graduated from the initiative would strengthen the networks in their native countries.
“This is a dynamic process,” Ulz said when he was asked what the graduation meant for those who had undergone the training.
He explained, “We have launched some ideas for those who have graduated. First of all, we invited them to become tutors for the next project cycle. We invited them to form a graduate association who are going to support the project in future intellectually, financially, or in any other way they can.”
About 100 students from seven countries graduated from the program that was started in 2014 to equip young people, especially those graduating from Sophia University Institute and other universities abroad to go “back to Africa”, to take responsibility for their societies of origin and “to shape a new Africa together.”