| The Mandela Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI).
E.S. Okotie, Nigeria Association of the Blind (NAB), Nigeria.
ejiro.okotie@nigeriaassociationoftheblind.org; sharonokotie@gmail.com
The Mandela Young African Initiative (YALI) is a flagship program of President Barack Obama launched in 2014. The program seeks to take 500 young Africans between the ages of 25-35 years to the USA where they participate in a 6-week summer school program in Business and Entrepreneurship, Civic Leadership and Public Management. In the 2016 the program seeks to take 1000 young Africans to the USA. The author was part of the 2015 intake. Youths with disabilities in Africa lack access to information and exposure, and the author wishes more people with disabilities would participate in it since YALI is a full scholarship program with all expenses catered for. As such, talk by those in the forum who are leaders within their communities regarding YALI will be very important during this session because knowledge can be transferred to the different groups.
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