In London
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| Running the workshop in London |
loveLife Generation recently run a workshop for young people
from the Maldives who were on a study tour of London. The group led by Democracy House and partnered
with the British youth Council were here in March 2012 and took part in many activities, events and met
lots of different people to explore the British culture and learn about youth
democracy here in the UK. The highly
motivated and enthusiastic group were selected due to their involvement in different youth democracy projects in the Maldives.
After getting a taste of what loveLife do (by shouting the house down) at an event
put on in East London for the group, we hosted a workshop for them.
Jasmine, Janine and Rukiyah ran a sample of the fun but
thought provoking activities for the group. The aim was to look at how the
young people see themselves, their roles in their own communities and how they
can continue to achieve great things by working together when they got back to
the Maldives.
Having explored opportunities and attitudes, the loveLife
team steered the workshop to a game show in the effort to make individual teams
Win As Much As they could.
‘If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative’
After
accusing teams of cheating and not playing fairly (not helped by the ‘evil’ game show hosts who
di not discourage the selfish ‘winning’ behaviour) the young Maldivians were
left with a sense of their
greatness as a group made up of great individuals who could ‘Be the Change they
Wish to see’ by recognising their inner leader and stepping up.
In the Maldives
Having returned to the Maldives the excitable bunch got
stuck right in to making a change and at the Learning to Live Together Training
organised by Democracy House, they decided to run a workshop based on the
loveLife Generation workshop they had taken part in whilst in London.
The facilitators in the Maldives, including Nawaf the lead facilitator who took part in the workshop in London, was able to get tips, help and support from us in London to make this a really
great workshop.
‘The session went much better than I
expected and the outcome was inspiring’
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| Nawaf with the Vice president of The Maldives |
Running the game show was quite the experience for
him and left the participants sharing their stories reflecting on their own
lives and seeing how much more they could do as young people.
On top of this the Vice President of the Maldives decided to pop by and check out what
was happening. The team were not expecting his appearance but he was very
impressed and thanked the facilitators for their excellent work.
‘Everyone was
very impressed with the session, and the response was overwhelmingly positive.
Thanks for all the help (loveLife) . I look forward to working with you someday’ 
We really hope we
can continue to work with awesome empowered young people where the domino effect of one workshop we ran in East London could be seen half
way across the world. 
