Jean Paul Amani is a student at Kitara Secondary School. He is a Congolese by nationality and the president of his schools’ Leadership Club. He is one of the leaders of COBURWAS (www.coburwas.org), a community based organization that works to promote peace, unity and love among people.

Jean Paul is a leader with great enthusiasm, mobilization skills, a strong work ethic and always dedicated to whatever he plans to do. Jean Paul’s ideal career is to be a social worker and his vision is “To develop the leaders around him and help others reach their full potential.”

He has done a great job working with in his school and promoting peace and unity through speaking at school assemblies. Jean Paul has started a fundraiser with his fellow students to start a poultry project.

Jean Paul, with some other students, organized a leadership seminar, and invited students from neighboring schools to attend. He used this seminar to pass on skills such as team building, community action, and leadership. In everything he does he seeks to empower those around him.

About this scholarship

This scholarship is for a social change program called Educate! Socially Responsible Leadership Course which was created by our partner Educate!.

Educate! has created a new model of education that channels the untapped potential of youth in Africa to become part of the solution. The curriculum is focused on the skills and experience students need to find solutions to problems in their communities.  The teachers are mentors who build powerful relationships that give youth confidence to lead change.  And the classroom is the community itself where the Educate! students start initiatives that solve the problems of poverty, disease, violence and environmental degradation.

Today, Educate! is working with 415 high-school aged youth across Uganda, and developing a model of education that can be applied across Africa.