Comments on: Leadership Development Academy

By: Vicki Small

Vicki Small — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:14:05 +0000

Thank you, Maria!

By: Maria Fernanda Madriz

Maria Fernanda Madriz — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:24:27 +0000

Vicki and Luann,

The Leadership Academy has been done in Dominican Republic, Haiti and Guatemala. However, there are camps available at the child sponsorship students’ level, intended to help them grow spiritually, academically, emotionally, etc. The Leadership Academy goes deeper in some of these topics since LDP students face a whole different reality (different people, philosophies, religions, professors methods, etc.) once they enter university. The academy’s intent is to get the participants focused as they start this new stage in their lives.

By: Chris Giovagnoni

Chris Giovagnoni — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:51:52 +0000

Luann,

I apologize for the delay in getting an answer to your question. The person I thought could answer it has been out of the country for a while. When she got back (today), she directed me to someone else. She is out of the office until Feb. 2

By: Luann Marzinzik

Luann Marzinzik — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:59:36 +0000

The academy sounds like a great program to help students prepare
for LDP. I would like to know what countries have simular programs. Our oldest sponsor child, whom we met this past June is in Colombia. We have encouraged her all we can to set her goals high and strive for the LDP program and that we would be behind her all the way. It’s so amazing and uplifting to meet and talk with an LDP student.

By: Sarah Markham

Sarah Markham — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:56:37 +0000

May the Lord bless Compassion International and the work they are doing with the LDP!! You are changing so many lives with what you are doing not just the lives of the students in the program!!

By: Vicki Small

Vicki Small — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:04:27 +0000

I’m sorry, my second paragraph was based on an impression that the academy experience is available only to children who are nearing graduation from CDSP. If it is available to younger children who are deemed to have the potential for qualifying, that is great!

I’m wondering whether all of the countries that have LDP do the academy thing.

By: Juli Jarvis

Juli Jarvis — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:13:27 +0000

Thanks for sharing about these very impressive young men and women! My sponsored child in Thailand also attended leadership camps like this through the years, and then was accepted to the Leadership Development Program. She now helps with the younger students at the camps.

By: Steve K.

Steve K. — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:56:37 +0000

I love the third group picture! It says, mature, fun and shows a bit of spunk in their personalities!

By: Sara Benson

Sara Benson — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:39:01 +0000

I think that this is a great idea! The transition from secondary school to university is a huge transition. This type of camp would be a huge benefit.

Thank you for telling us the testimonies of the students. I am sure that this is something that their future sponsors would love to hear as well. I am praying for wisdom for those who have to make the final decision of acceptance into LDP.

By: Vicki Small

Vicki Small — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:57:39 +0000

The Academy is a great idea. Even in the U.S., there are programs to help some high-school students make the transition to college.

Yet, I would ask why “topics such as how to manage their time, how to be more responsible, how to study, how to have a stronger spiritual life . . .” are not taught to students at the CDSP level; or are they?

And I pray for the day when the LDP has been started in every country where Compassion works, and every able and deserving student is able to participate. I believe that is also Compassion’s long-term goal.