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[YONSEI NEWS] Servant Leadership in Creating a “Global Village Free of Poverty”

연세대학교 홍보팀 / news@yonsei.ac.kr
2012-02-24

Good Neighbors and Yonsei University Co-Host the Youth Global Leadership Camp “I learned that a true leader must do more than just play a role in politics and the economy and should look into the lives of marginalized people and do the best to create a world with solidarity” From January 9th to 11th, Yonsei University and Good Neighbors, an international humanitarian and development non-governmental organization, co-hosted the Youth Global Leadership Camp at Incheon International Campus. The Camp was founded when Yonsei and Good Neighbors signed an MOU on August 11th, 2011 in celebration of the International Youth Day. It was created under the cause of nurturing young people who love and reach out to their neighbors. Planning and executing the Camp is mainly led by “Leader’s Club,” a student-led group associated with Yonsei University’s Leadership Center. With about 200 high school students from 111 high schools, this year’s camp consisted of various programs that enabled the students who will lead society in the near future to experience values such as service, love, peace, and justice and to seek for specific ways to show their love for neighbors. On the 11th in particular, the camp location was moved to the Sinchon Campus where the high school students created a world map wearing white t-shirts that are symbolic of eradicating poverty. While holding up the flags of 48 poorest nations chosen by the United Nations, they repeated the slogan “End Poverty” and sang campaign songs. The press was there to capture the event. The high school students who attended the Camp were very satisfied with their experiences and realized that “a true leader must do more than just play a role in politics and the economy and should look into the lives of marginalized people and do the best to create a world with solidarity.”