Every child deserves a place to belong.

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We help young people learn by doing, observing, researching, analyzing, and participating in community service and reflection to become leaders in their community.

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Applied Research: The Club of Leaders

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The Club of Leaders is the living, breathing embodiment of all that has been researched, analyzed, and refined over ten years through chats, emails, reports, and annual visits.

There is broad support for The Club of Leaders in the DRC. Your support has helped us adapt and translate more than ten years of curriculum research into an applied model that is experiencing rapid growth. Since no other organization in Kinshasa has a youth program like the Club of Leaders, we are experiencing enthusiastic acceptance among our Kinshasa stakeholders.

Our long term vision is to integrate the unique Club of Leaders model into the national curriculum.

Unlock potential.

Create opportunity.

Make a difference.

Over the years, our journey has taken us from the co-creation of a new 21st century based curriculum to teacher development to today’s signature program, the Club of Leaders. Together, we are creating spaces where teachers, students, parents, administrators, and others in the community are encouraged to leverage assets that already exist to improve their daily lives.