to Attend Global Young Leaders Conference
By Innocent Samuel Appiah

THE MANAGEMENT of Kasapreko Company Limited (KCL) has supported Michael Dornu Kitcher with a return air ticket valued at GHc4,250.00 to enable him participate in this year’s Global Young Leaders Conference (GYLC) slated to take place in St. John’s University in New York, USA from July 6 to July 18. The conference is expected to bring together talented young leaders from over 100 countries in the world.
The 17-year old Master Kitcher, who is a second year IGCSE student in SOS Hermann Gmeiner College, Tema, was nominated to participate in the 2012 GYLC. He has been a consistent Straight A science student with immense potential for leadership, research and innovation, which must be nurtured and encouraged.
The GYLC is a unique leadership development programme that brings together outstanding young people from around the world to build critical leadership skills in a global context. The Conference offers students the opportunity to learn from and exchange ideas with some of the world’s top business leaders, policy officials, lobbyists, journalists, diplomats and academics in the challenging and dynamic environment of Washington, D.C. and New York; Vienna, Budapest and Praque; or Beijing and Shanghai.
The GYLC gives high-achieving students aged 15-18 years a greater understanding of their roles as global ambassadors while analyzing concepts surrounding communications, diplomacy, law, human rights, peace, security, economics and the role of the United Nations. Students return home from GYLC with a greater understanding of their roles and responsibilities as citizens and future leaders in an international community.
Each session of the GYLC is designed to educate, inspire and motivate students by giving them the opportunity to explore cultural differences firsthand, absorb diplomatic skills daily, build confidence and enhance decision-making skills in an exciting atmosphere that is challenging and fun.
The GYLC curriculum was developed by Dr. Marguerite C. Regan, a former high school teacher and social science department chairperson with a doctorate in political science from Purdue University. Dr. Regan has been involved in the creation and development of innovative educational curricula and programmes for over 30 years. Under Dr. Regan’s direction, the curriculum provides a unique approach to leadership training.
Mrs. Leticia Asiedu-Attafuah, General Manager, Human Resource, who presented the air ticket to Michael at the Company’s offices, said Michael is a very brilliant and promising science student and so the thought as a company where they invariably project Ghanaian and African brand, and as such, support and invest in a country in which they work in developing talents, they were delighted to support such a young man in his endeavours.
She contended that as soon as the school wrote to the Company for the support on his behalf, management thought it wise as a means of projecting Ghana at the international level, and for that matter without any hesitation decided to sponsor the boy, saying, “We want to represent Ghana proudly by sending one of our own very bright students.”
Mrs. Asiedu-Attafuah intimated that the Company wants to put back into the development of talents in Ghana and also as a science student, Michael may one day choose either the engineering field or become a key research and development innovator, which she believed, would help Ghana’s industry in one way or another.
“So we know that we will benefit, bearing in mind the sciences the gentleman is pursuing and the correlation between what we do as a company, as well as the development of talents for the betterment of Ghana as well,” she emphasized.
The General manager took the opportunity to encourage Ghanaians to be the best that they can since each and every individual has God-given gifts, and with hard work and determination, an opportunity would certainly present itself in one’s life at some stage or another to be able to gain perhaps corporate support or another, but not withstanding corporate support, everybody is always encouraged to give their level best because “we all have a role to play in developing Ghana, and the only way we can move from a developing nation to developed nation is to ensure that talents are nurtured and maximized and it takes everybody’s efforts to get there.”