After preparing for a couple days before all the students arrived, the South Asian students presented on their cultures for the international students. You can read more here, and see a few student interviews here, beginning with Olga!

Monica

Mohammad

Rohini

Kultwisiso

Shilpi

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Arriving in the Monsoon

While the students from overseas were making their to Mumbai, heavy rains and a plan skidding off one of the runways created havoc with flight schedules in India.

It delayed Oriannah’s flight from Madagascar itself, but the Bulgarian, Lebanese and Syrian students were in the air already. Their flight was diverted to Bangalore. The 360Plus team kept in touch with the students via Google Hangouts facilitated by a good Samaritan on the flight – Vedant Agarwal – who shared his cellphone hotspot with them. With the unforeseen circumstance, he became our intermediary to the group, helping them navigate the change. The 360Plus group spent some time resting at a local hotel and is now back at Bangalore airport will they will fly to meet the group at the Leadership Center.

The students from South Africa were the least disrupted. They met up in Johannesburg and with a layover in Abu Dhabi have reached Mumbai. The US students reached Munich on the first leg of their journey and are now on their way to Mumbai.

Tomorrow is another day, but we will all be together!

 

 

 

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July 1: The Beginning of the LC 2019

It is July 1. An unremarkable day for many. But for 40 young teenagers from 9 countries it is the day their view of the world could begin to change beyond the narrow confines imposed by their personal circumstances in their home geographies.

This potentially transformational experience started early for 11 students in the Indian subcontinent who made their way to Mumbai from Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Assam, West Bengal, and Kathmandu to be met by their 360Plus hosts  Mohit and Tabiz. In a few hours  Stefani from Varna, Bulgaria will fly to Sofia to join up with Monica to take the flights to  Mumbai. On the way they will meet with their current e-friends (through 3 months of Google Hangouts ) Tahani and Ezz Edeen from Lebanon and Syria in Qatar and make their own way to Mumbai. Oriannah will leave her home in Madagascar to make her solo way to Mumbai.  At the same time and a few hours earlier or later 19 US based (including one from Mexico) students  will make their way to their local airport in California, Louisiana, South Carolina, Oregon, New York, Massachusetts, Florida, etc to board, for many of them their first  flight experience, to Chicago to  join up with the others and their leaders – Eli, Rougye, Ana – to take the longer flights via Munich to Mumbai. In the meantime a cohort of 5 students from Johannesburg and Cape Town will gather in the former city to make their own way to Mumbai with their mentor Cedric. Lastly Tracking all of these from north India will be Caitlin who manages the data and technology infrastructure which supports this annual temporary migration. The Leadership Collective 2019 would have begun. 

 

Putting an experience like this on the road is a logistical challenge compounded by the the age range of our students. Each student requires a customized set of processes to address their specific needs from getting passports and travel consents for students to convincing schools to allow students to miss a few days. We are able to bring this degree of attention to each student because of the effort put in by the dedicated team of 360Plus Leaders, Mentors, Hosts etc. We at 360Plus are indeed fortunate that so many members of our network give their time to help us.

 

Shortly after midnight of July 2nd all the 40 students will be together and their on-site experience will begin. This will build on the pre- departure assignments they have been involved in for the past three months around the theme of Youth Citizenship. Over the three weeks they will be in India around Mumbai, Ahmedabad, and Delhi the students, now divided into three separate groups, would discuss, visit, reflect and create their own toolkit to support community involvement in their home geographies. By presenting them with the opportunity to meet with and work alongside Young Citizen activists in diverse fields from Education / Social Change /Climate/  etc with sub themes around minority rights including caste/LGBTQ etc we hope that these 40 young leaders will go on to become responsible Global Citizens.

 

We at 360Plus thank all our sponsors, friends, well wishers, mentors and partners. Without your help none of this would be possible.
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LC Alumni, Priyanka, Selected as Global Teen Leader

Leadership Collective 2018 alumni, Priyanka, was recently selected as a Global Teen Leader by Three Dot Dash! See her post below to hear about her experience and how the Leadership Collective set her up for participation.Hello Leadership Collective Friends,I am thrilled to inform you that I am traveling to New York City tomorrow. I will be attending the 2019 Just Peace Summit to be held from 08-15 March 2019 in New York City. I will represent Nepal for the first time in this highly decorated event. I am super happy and excited for this trip and more importantly for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of meeting other Global Teen Leaders, who are changing the world with their unique, creative and innovative projects all around the world. If you want to read more about this year’s Global Teen Leaders, you can check it out at on Three Dot Dash’s page.Three Dot Dash powers the most influential social entrepreneurs between the ages of 13-19, who have found a solution or innovation that addresses a basic human need. It is a competitive process with hundreds of applicants. Their selection criteria can be found here.
I went through the selection process mentioned above which started in early September 2019. It was a very tough and lengthy process. I feel lucky and privileged to be selected as a Global Teen Leader and now I look forward to a great opportunity of learning, sharing and networking that Three Dot Dash will provide to me and other fellow global teen leaders with our projects. As you all know, the first international trip I ever did was to India in July/August 2018 with the Leadership Collective of Three Sixty Plus (360+). It was truly a great program where I met amazing students from the United States, South Africa and India. Nepal was participating for the first time in this program through me. I learned so many new ideas and gained valuable experiences from experts, facilitators, speakers and wonderful Sridar, Caitlin, Eli, and Rougye. That trip gave me a different outlook on life and the world by teaching me mainly on the theme of Adaptive Resilience in a Changing World. As an avid traveller, the contents of the Leadership Collective was super relevant to me, it was filled with learning through traveling. By attending Leadership Collective, I gained more confidence, exposed to the outside world and build a solid network with everyone I met during the trip, which I will cherish forever. Namaste!
Priyanka
Kathmandu, Nepal

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