YSEALI Grow

YSEALI Grow 2.0 is a youth leadership and agripreneurship program that will be held from 18-24 April 2018 at the Costales Nature Farms in Majayjay, Laguna.

This Mindanao Youth-focused workshop is sponsored by the U.S. Embassy Manila and administered by AGREA.

YSEALI Grow’s framework is “Haraya Manawari,” meaning “To dream and to make it happen”. And like YSEALI Grow 1.0 last 2017, youth leaders will eventually implement agri-projects in their own communities in Mindanao.

Watch the highlights of YSEALI Grow 2.0 here.

Watch what happened in YSEALI Grow 1.0 last year in the video below.

YSEALI Grow Overview

The workshop facilitates dream building and taking action sessions for the participants and assisted by carefully-selected USG alumni.

The dream building sessions cover these components:

Haraya: Dreaming awake

Journeying Within – embracing the self
Spiral of Life - recognizing life’s opportunities, and one’s potential
Dream building - dreaming for the self and beyond

The workshop then moves to technical sessions that enables participants to take the first step in making their dreams come true. The technical sessions are as follows:

2. Manawari: Practical tools to cultivate your dreams

Leadership
Agriculture
Call to Action

"Dream Awake, Cultivate"

YSEALI Grow gathered 30 youth leaders 6 USG alumni mentors from Lanao del Sur, North Cotabato, and Bukidnon.

YSEALI Grow’s framework is “Haraya Manawari,” meaning “To dream and to make it happen”. After the training and with seed money from the program, the YSEALI Grow youth leaders implemented 6 agri-projects in their own communities in Mindanao.

Background
Due to successful prior projects by USG alumni in otherwise hard-to-reach communities in Mindanao, we have an unusual opportunity to engage youth in these conflict-affected areas from a position of trust. This workshop is focused on youth aged 18-25 years old from Mindanao, particularly out-of-school youth (OSY) from Muslim and indigenous peoples (IP) communities.

Out-of-School Youth are often marginalized populations, yet in many rural communities these populations outnumber the in-school youth populations. These youths are untapped resources who, when encouraged to dream and actualize those dreams, can make a real difference in their communities.

The program leveraged the expertise of Filipino USG alumni in agriculture, development, interfaith dialogue, Muslim culture, and indigenous peoples.

YSEALI Grow 2.0

YSEALI Grow 2.0 finally arrives and is happening from 18-24 April 2018 in Costales Nature Farms, Majayjay, Laguna.