OLA in Beirut to promote youth capacities, skills

The Prime Minister Designate, Saad Hariri, stressed yesterday that education and knowledge are the only way to build human capacities and achieve a paradigm shift in the latent potentials of the local economy and maintain Lebanon’s distinctive presence in the region. Hariri was speaking during the inauguration in Downtown Beirut of the Outreach and Leadership Academy of the Hariri Foundation for Sustainable Human Development (OLA) in the framework of partnership with the Lebanese American University (LAU). “Currently, a key responsibility of the State is to create jobs for young men and women and reinstate a climate of optimism and confidence, to encourage the generation of the future”, Hariri said. He further underlined the importance of the initiative as a model for cooperation between the private sector and civil society. Hariri stressed that the project boosts the skills of youth in schools, universities and workplace, and therefore, enhances opportunities of success for students in finding the right jobs after graduation and for young employees in terms of individual initiative. To recall, the Beirut center for OLA, a twin of the Saida-based center, is built on the trilogy ‘educate, empower, engage’. It is aimed to provide civil society organisations, as well as, educational and state-run institutions with training courses on a sustainable basis. The main aim is the development of leadership and management skills as well as raising the awareness of civil society to community issues, in addition to the empowerment of youth and the working and productive forces. (Al Mustaqbal, An Nahar, Novebmer 30, 2016)

 

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