2012-07-09

July 07-09, EPSAYA public union organized the 3 days summer camp within the project of “Building leadership skills of young people from rural areas” for the 25 youth participants of the project in “Zirva” Rest Center, Masalli region. There were 8 women and 17 men youth participants in the summer camp. During the summer camp the staff and the participants discussed a lot of themes related to leadership skills including “Evaluation of the community-based proposals / projects of the participants and give small grants for them, writing Narrative and Financial reports, cooperation with authorities and mass media during the implementing of the local projects”. During the summer camp the staff used different roleplaying games, interactive group works, debates, simulations, focus group discussions and presentations and more other interactive methods including watching to the different social wheels related to the topics throughout the entire session. In addition Mr. Sanan Suleymanov, Senior Project Coordinator and Ruslan Asad, Program Officer of NDI Azerbaijan Chapter also participated in the summer camp and shared their rich knowledge and experiences with the participants. They also discussed the future activities related to the local project, especially implementing of the projects for their communities. The third day of the summer camp the staff took all participants to the waterfall which is situated in Yardimli region in the name of “Takdam” (37 meters) and had a rest there. In the end of the summer camp the participants and the staff gave their views on the project and thanked to the guests including the donors – NDI and USAID Washington DC for realizing such kind of project for the youth leaders from the rural areas.