Active Citizens
A social leadership training programme that promotes intercultural dialogue and community-led social development. We bring together people with different beliefs and perspectives to learn from and share with each other.
Meet Our Team
Amr Ramadan
Project ManagerThe training highlights the following
Me — Identity and culture
Participants get a better understanding of the concepts of identity and culture and apply their learning to understanding the beliefs, behaviour and attitudes of themselves and other people.
Me and You — Intercultural Dialogue
Participants learn methods of dialogue as a tool for building empathy, trust and understanding within and across cultures.
Local and Global Community — We together
Participants develop an understanding of ‘community’ and its relationship with identity and culture. The group applies their learning to their own community to identify the problem they would like to address and the people they need to engage to achieve their objectives.
Social Action Planning
Participants focus on planning a social action initiative in their community, considering the process in different levels of detail and complexity. This involves identifying and clarifying their agenda, a specific intervention and how they will deliver it.
Programme phases
The cascade training phase
The 60 participants are divided into two batches, and each batch receives a five-day face to face in a total of 40 hours provided by certified community facilitators on social leadership skills. We also provide them with extra soft skills like storytelling skills, advocacy skills and advanced language skills. All of our activities are based on the edutainment and deep learning strategies as we gamify all of our activities to guarantee the highest professional learning experience.
The field visits phase
We provide every batch with 3-day field visits to map and dialogue community sessions (Practicing sessions) to provide the participants with core community mobilization, strategic & critical thinking skills where they engage in cultural activities.
Intra-hub competition phase
It is between Social Action Projects from different training batches to select a minimum of 3 teams (a minimum of 2 members per team) to participate in the National Social Action Project’s competition and the Policy Dialogue forum as requested by the British Council.
The world cafe phase
It is mainly to help the participants in implementing their initiatives which discuss the topic of “Putting gender and disability lens for sustainability advocacy”. Also, we welcome a plethora of climate activists and VIP guests as following:
- Rowan MosaGlobal director of Nation Builders (a person with a disability)★
- Ahmed Rahouma↓
- Ahmed Yassin↓
- Omar Afif↓
- Omar Mabrouk↓
- Ahmed Elfakky↓
- Ali Elhawary↓
- Nour Hazem and Nada Hazem↓
- Sawsan Sami↓
- Hindawi Elsayed↓
- Menna Ahmed↓
The World Café ends with an Eco-friendly IFTAR with Zero Food waste.
Through the whole phases, we make sure that the most vulnerable members of our community are represented in a high intersectional manner.
Who are we?
The Tech Leaders project is a combined effort of Empower Hub and The Next Coders’ Society that aims to introduce adolescents aged from 16 to 22 around Egypt to technology and computer science through local advocacy and leadership endeavors.
Participants will receive inclusive training from a coding expert, social media influencers & specialists, content creators, storytellers, marketers and campaigners, to engage with their target audience and run a successful hour of code campaign.
Our Goals
- A one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify “code”, to show that anybody can learn the basics, and to broaden participation in the field of computer science.
- Help get teens introduced to technology through completing an hour of code tutorial.
- A computer science advocacy course that will prepare local leads to start an hour of code campaign.
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