Peer Empowerment and Support Mentors
These are other young (in age or in spirit) people from across the world who have already demonstrated a unique ability and braveness to pursue their personal aspiration in some aspect of life. They will serve both as inspiration and as resource for ideas. Their role is to engage in brainstorming together with their mentorees about options for taking action and also empower them in taking the steps needed to convert their visions and ideas into action.
One Peer Empowerment and Support Mentor will mentor 5 Mentees, one per Continent. The Mentees choose their Mentors using the available information in their respective pages and their personal videos.
Specific Tasks
- Ensure that their Mentees remain active throughout the project lifetime
- Have Mentees research and explore for opportunties around them to expand their work
- Support them in writing down their project and actions ideas and empower them to promote widely their communication plans
- Arrange regular Skype meetings with their Mentees, both individually and sometimes as a group
- Try to facilitate exchange of information, ideas, and projects between their five Mentees
- Encourage their Mentees to work on their own specific projects
- Help their Mentees with ideas on how to secure support and funds to implement their own projects, including applying to this program
- Encourage their Mentees to replicate the project by organizing their own local dialogues
The following individuals serve currently as Mentors: