This program also aims to offer a fresh look at the world of leadership, helping the youth to create project ideas with high social impact, according to a joint statement from the U.S. Embassy to Morocco and the Anoual Association.
Interested young leaders and actors should submit their applications before February 1, 2021, through the social networks of the Anoual association and the U.S. Embassy in Morocco, the statement said.
About twenty project leaders with strong social impact in the Dakhla Oued Eddahab region will be selected and will participate in five training sessions spread over five months.
These training sessions will focus on community development and needs identification, design thinking and social innovation, leadership, marketing and public relations, fundraising and budgeting in addition to public communication.
The MLF program features a social innovation competition where participants will have the opportunity to pitch their project to a jury of professionals. The winning projects will be awarded funding and will be supported on the ground, the press release concluded.