Inspired, Involved and Motivated in the Maldives.

In London 

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’

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.