RYLA 2022 – 24^th to 29^th April.                                                              

Note: 9.30am Sunday to 9pm Friday night

Dear Rotarian,

Applications for RYLA 2022 are now open! The course is limited to the first 45 awardees.

NB. The 2022 RYLA programme is open to participants aged 20 – 26 years.

Do you know young people in your community who are showing leadership potential or skills in their work or lives?

The Rotary Youth Leadership Award is an international programme designed to develop leadership skills in young people. RYLA participants attend a weeklong workshop, focussing on leadership and personal development. The programme is organised and run by Rotarians who are successful business and professional people themselves.

District 9930’s RYLA programme is open to any young people in our district who have left secondary school. They can be tertiary students, farmers, teachers, electricians, and shop assistants … young people who show, through their actions, that they are emerging leaders.

RYLA is not a programme to “sort out” wayward young people – it is to develop leadership skills and build support networks for focussed and enthusiastic young leaders.

 CANDIDATES SHOULD BE INTERVIEWED BY ROTARIANS FROM THE SPONSORING CLUB to determine their suitability for RYLA and that they are prepared to commit to this week-long, intensive development programme.

Sponsoring a young person on RYLA offers your club the chance to develop a special relationship with young people in your community. RYLA offers the awardees an outstanding opportunity to grow as a leader in a week filled with challenge, new learning, teamwork and fun. The weeklong programme has been professionally designed to cover the many aspects of leadership and is based on a well-respected Leadership model. Leadership skills are developed through introducing new learning, meeting people who are living it, and giving it a go yourself. There’s a mix of indoor and outdoor activities, some at the camp and others off site.

Next year’s programme will be run in April at Epworth Lodge, Karapiro from April 24^th till 29^th and applications are open now for places on the programme. We recommend RYLA participants contribute $100.00 to the club and the club pays the total fee of $850.00 ($750 from the club and $100 from the awardee). This fee covers accommodation, food (including the formal dinner) facilitator fees where necessary, and all off site activities and buses for the week.

We’d like to see every club sponsor a RYLA awardee and give a young person in your community the chance to take part in this leadership development programme. Many clubs are now committing to sending two participants and some firms are finding RYLA offers incredible personal professional development at a very reasonable cost. If you are sending more than one applicant, please give some thought to gender balance – we’ve had twice as many female participants as male in the last two years! We encourage you to select a participant as a soon as possible so that they can receive timely information about the programme. Enrolment forms and more information about RYLA are available from the website, http://www.rotary9930.org/Page/youth-ryla

Please contact me if you require any further information,

Yours faithfully

Bill Robinson – RYLA secretary