Wednesday, 20 June 2007

Lionheart in Tauranga

Lionheart is an interesting initiative being launched in Tauranga. It is being supported by Tauranga Chamber of Commerce and Creative Enterprise NZ Ltd.

Six potential leaders aged between 18 - 24 will be carefully chosen and asked to take a “gap year” in their life. Within this one year period the six will live together in a house located in Tauranga and spend the majority of their time serving their community and being mentored by local community and business leaders. At the end of this one year period, it is foreseeable that a generation of young aspiring leaders will emerge and become the movers and shakers in this city and nation.

The programme is to be officially piloted in Tauranga and will become the template for other cities and regions who wish to adopt the concept of Lionheart. It sounds like a good initiative to me.

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