Just recently, on the 25th April, a group of Outward Bound Alumni from Melbourne got together to help a lady who earlier this year lost her husband, house and a great deal of her property in Victoria’s devastating bushfires.
Outward Bound National Aspiring Leaders Summit 2008
The National Aspiring Leaders Summit is a one of Australia's peak leadership events. It brings together young people from across Australia to participate in a seven day program that provides them with the necessary skills and experiences to return to their community and make a difference. The young people walk away from the program with a plan to complete a Community Action Project.
The National Aspiring Leaders Program successfully engaged ten not-for-profit and community organisations across Australia to support young people in establishing social enterprises or projects that make a difference. Twenty-eight communities from five states and two territories were represented in the 2008 program. These communities represent varying degrees of disadvantage including geographic isolation, high unemployment and a lack of educational and health services provided for young people. Each project or enterprise focuses important needs in those communities. Some young people chose to focus on local projects, while others chose to collaborate across borders. One example was in a group of four young people representing four states to tackle the issue of abuse in their communities.
