(ATR) Executives and administrators of the future need some help getting started on the path to achieving their dreams.
Sport at the Service of Humanity launched its Young Leaders Mentoring program on the sidelines of the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires earlier this month. The program is sponsored by ISPS Handa.
The program matches promising young people with respected figures in the world of elite sport. The four young people come from South Sudan, Canada, Philippines and Israel.
A reception in Buenos Aires introduced the mentees to their mentors ahead of a one-year pairing with four established professionals. Around the Rings was on the scene for a reception honoring the young people and those who will guide them.
Those chosen include :
-Anjelina Nadai – 23, a track runner from the Kakuma Refugee Camp in South Sudan. She was also a member of the -Refugee Olympic Team at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
-Chantal Sathi – a Canadian of Sri Lankan Heritage; she is a kick boxer and has a degree in kinesiology and a masters i-in theology in urban and international development
-John Paul Masubay – 24, is a football player, coach, mentor and youth leader from Tacloban, Philippines.
-Shahid Bishara – 15, plays - squash player and lives with her family in an Arab town in Israel. She got involved in squash as part of a project to build bridges between Jewish and Arab cultures in Israel.
Mentors read like a who’s who in world sport:
-Prince Feisal - IOC member and president of the Jordan Olympic Committee; founder and chairman of Generations for Peace
-Victor Montagliani – FIFA vice president and president of CONCACAF
-Renata Simril – president and CEO of LA84 Foundation
-Jon Tibbs – founder and chairman of JTA
The first group of mentees are also the program’s inaugural Global Youth Ambassadors. Each year a new group of promising young people will take the program to new parts of the world.
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