Rotary youth leadership award Ethiopia 2007

RYLA in Ethiopia for the first time held on may 25th-27th for three days in ambo at the backyard of ambo hotel. 89 rotaractors participate in the training splited in to ten groups with their respective objectives to achieve for the success of the program. All rotaract clubs have participated in this event both in theory and practice leadership development training. And most of the rotaractors have found it rewarding and everyone was able to draw a valuable lesson. There were about ten groups who are assigned to handle all the activities and it actually give an impetus to practically give a chance for all the rotaractors to work, collaborate and be effective in a group and it also give a chance to know each other more and develop sense of oneness, besides the rotaractors during their practical leadership training they were being capable of having connection with the local community by doing different activities and their was a very tight closure which enable us to closely came in contact with the how the people live and lead their life and also try to understand their underlying problems and its symptoms which actually gave rise to initiate projects in those areas.
The RYLA program didn’t end only on the three day training event; rather there was also other successive program following after the return from ambo, that is like the visit to the ‘muya’ which create an eye opening moment in all of us in getting to know how the traditional craft and weaving takes place and its complicated and artistic nature of doing had made beautiful artifacts and cultural closings which made us all to appreciate it and helps us to change our attitudes towards our own original historical way of making unique way clothes and craft materials which can be further backed by new technological industries to transcend the art to the rest of the world.
The final phase of this program was the award giving ceremony. It was a very spectacular and beautiful ceremony which was accompanied by beautiful cultural clothes wore by the attendants. Among all groups the camping group win the major award because of its risky job though all other groups have equally contributed for the program and everyone got an award and it finally wind up with warm traditional cultural music; hence it was generally a very successful and worthwhile even for all of us and ra’ey rotaract club is proud to be part of that.