I am climbing Ben Nevis in Scotland (1345 metres), Scafell Pike in
England (978 metres and Snowdon in Wales (1085 metres), within 24 hours for an extraordinary organisation doing genuinely ground-breaking work within the developing world. They are working with well known UK brands like Marks and Spencer to empower leaders in some of the poorest nations, bringing lasting change to our broken world.

Watch this video for more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dznJ9EIgTY 

There is no sustainable change anywhere in the world without good, strong and effective leadership in any area of personal, community or national life.

Unlike much of relief works which acts as a sticking plaster to a deep
wound, giving rather than empowering, talking about rather than dialoguing with, hierarchy rather than true relationship, Emerging Leaders believes in the empowerment of every individual and that everyone is a leader in some way.

• It takes leadership to get more girls into school worldwide.
• It takes leadership to stop gender-based violence in our communities or get ourselves tested for HIV/AIDS.
• It takes leadership to repair broken relationships, or claw ourselves
  out of debt, change the things that aren’t working in our lives and keep hold of our life-pen, to write our own unique story.
• It takes leadership to face and climb impossibly high walls that
  challenge us at different stages of life.
• It takes leadership to achieve goals for our families and save for a better future; leadership is about taking initiative and living courageously.
• It takes leadership to see and take responsibility for what we want to change in our communities, to fight for justice and equality and to stand up for the weak and vulnerable.

All this is leadership. Emerging Leader’s training equips people to:

• LEAD their lives proactively and to release their potential
  
• LEAD themselves
• LEAD their teams
• LEAD their finances and
• LEAD a project to benefit others.

Some real facts about why donating to Emerging Leaders makes a difference:

• For every 1 person trained by Emerging Leaders, they shared the information with an additional 23 people.
• In Kenya following training, 83 per cent of participants set up an income generating activity, a total of 52 businesses.
• Since the partnership with Marks and Spencer started in 2013, over 9,000 people have been trained.