APT-ANAHO Leadership Development Program
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Introduction

This pamphlet provides information about APT’s in-person leadership development program including topics, objectives, challenges, and impacts, which was organized with the partnership of Afghan National Aid & Humanitarian Organization (ANAHO).
This document is prepared based on the staff evaluation, participants’ feedback, and instructors’ rating. The participants are all youth from different universities in Kabul province with various backgrounds.The engagement of youth is a crucial asset to any society’s progress. Young people have many unique and astonishing ideas, but their ideas will not make any impact until they are put in action. Ethnic and religious-based discrimination is a solid barrier to the formation of a country-wide network of youth. Well-connected youth can develop nation-based solutions for the issues and challenges at hand. Afghan youth who live under an autocratic regime keep losing hope and motivation of taking part in building a progressive society. Unreasonable rules and regulations cause challenging situations and sometimes marginalization. It is necessary to work on capacity-building programs and provide opportunities to help the youth to get connected and keep motivated.

Success Stories

Ms. Nilab Ibrahimy

Nilab Ibrahimy is studying engineering at Kabul Polytechnic University. She is a program and workshop manager at EAW (Empowering Afghan Women), she likes reading novels in her free time and she is good in communication and networking. She got information about…

“Nilab Ibrahimy is studying engineering at Kabul Polytechnic University. She is a program and workshop manager at EAW (Empowering Afghan Women), she likes reading novels in her free time and she is good in communication and networking. She got information about the Leadership Development Program in the year of 2022 through social media. She was so excited to attend to LDP, because she always believes that leadership can benefit every aspect of life, helps to build confidence, strengths communication and negotiation skills and has huge impacts on career and personal life, leadership values also put people on the fast track to be successful in their lives.

During the program, she learned so many important things about leadership, it is fundamentals, and styles, beside that she found some nice friends from different backgrounds with leadership potentials. She also met some talented and inspiring national and international trainers from different countries such as Germany that she could learn about what foreigners’ perspectives are about Afghan people. As a part of soft skills, she learned what is honor, tribute, how important is trust, and how to influence more and put positive impact in a society as a leader. Overall, the leadership program was fantastic and a great experience for her to learn that to lead is to influence, it can be at home, at the university, or with the whole community. She adds that “Since I am a program manager, I need to know a lot about leadership and this program helped me to lead the programs in my office and manage them all very well. After the program, I decided to change my leadership style so, I put more positive impacts in my career life. I realized I was more like a position leader; I came to know that being people’s leader will be more efficient. So, I decided to interact more with the members of my organization, have their inputs individually and provide them with more practical materials. As a result, the program has provided me so many good tools that I can implement into my career and personal life in the future that will encourage my students, colleagues, friends, and my family to think differently and to always put a positive impact. I hope I can put a good impact on my society with all the new knowledge and experiences that I got so I also help other people in relocating their dreams”.

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Mr. Abdul Wasi Wahdat

This is Abdul Wasi Wahdat, I am studying Politics at Bakhtar University, currently, I’m working on my bachelor’s thesis and also preparing for the TOEFL exam. I usually spend my time reading and writing.In early 2020, I heard about the APT leadership development program..

“This is Abdul Wasi Wahdat, I am studying Politics at Bakhtar University, currently, I’m working on my bachelor’s thesis and also preparing for the TOEFL exam. I usually spend my time reading and writing.

In early 2020, I heard about the APT leadership development program and it somehow attracted me to join that class. However, it was not that easy due to a very competitive process, as they were just accepting 30 students out of 400 applications, on the first time I failed to join the class, but I didn’t give up. After I applied again in the next season and I got accepted. We had about 10 sessions with national and international trainers on a variety of topics, for instance; leadership styles, conflict resolution, team building, growth, goal setting, etc. Furthermore, being in the class helped me to be more disciplined, tolerant, honest, and articulate in my career and personal life. During the program, APT initiated collaboration with ANAHO and they organized another class, as I had enough time and I didn’t want to waste my time so I tried to join this season’s class as well, and luckily, I got the opportunity to join the class. In this season, there were some changes and at the end, they divided the class into three groups each group needed to come up with a concept for their social project and they would’ve chosen only one concept and provided them $100 budget to implement their project.

To sum up, one and half month course helped me to overcome numerous challenges in my life. It also enabled me to meet some great, ambitious, and like-minded youths from different backgrounds and beliefs. I’m confident that everything that I have learned and the experience I’ve got and the friends that I made will be very helpful and crucial in my life.

Last but not least, the credit goes to APT leadership for providing us the opportunity to grow, learn, and experience new challenges and the ways how to adapt and cope with them. Also, not to be forgotten, much appreciation to the ANAHO leadership for helping and organizing these classes for us, and a special thanks to Mr. Hameedullah Vali, ANAHO Executive Director, for his tireless efforts and hardships for this class and also without Mr. Nematullah Akbari, APT Program Coordinator, that class wouldn’t be as productive as it was”.

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Mr. Abdul Naseer Sahibzada

This is Abdul Naser Sahibzada 23 years old, from Baghlan, Afghanistan. I am a freelance Photographer, the owner and founder of Form.af company (Digital Marketing Company), and Co-founder of Khodkaar.af (Khodkaar Educational Institution). I am so interested in traveling and reading…

“This is Abdul Naser Sahibzada 23 years old, from Baghlan, Afghanistan. I am a freelance Photographer, the owner and founder of Form.af company (Digital Marketing Company), and Co-founder of Khodkaar.af (Khodkaar Educational Institution). I am so interested in traveling and reading different kinds of books, it is also mentioned that I joined the Leadership Program in 2018 and on that program we were taught many crucial points, and the main concentration of the program was leadership and management, after taking part in Leadership Program, I got a great opportunity of applying to the APT-ANAHO Leadership Development Program, fortunately, I successfully passed the interview and got the chance of being a part of the mentioned program. In fact, the program was incredibly efficient, and we learned many new things, such as values, communications, different types of leadership the servant leadership and concept note writing.

As a result, with no doubt that such great programs really influence the personality of youth and can build up their capacity. In conclusion, Leadership programs are required more than anything else in our society. Today, we hope to be the witness of more programs so that others can take benefit of them, as well.”

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Ms. Nazia Amiri

I am Nazia Amiri from Bamiyan province of Afghanistan. currently, I am student of Archeology and Anthropology at Kabul university and I am in 7th semester. I am also an English Teacher at Hujjat Khorasan Network and Vice President of the Kabul University Debate Club since…

“I am Nazia Amiri from Bamiyan province of Afghanistan. Currently, I am student of Archeology and Anthropology at Kabul University and I am in 7th semester. I am also an English Teacher at Hujjat Khorasan Network and Vice President of the Kabul University Debate Club since October 2022. I am obsessed with novel books and philosophy books that really inspired me to do my best. I admire APT, It really helped me to go toward my ambitions. Hence, I have joined many virtual programs of APT including Mentorship and Coaching plus Debate Clubs since Taliban took Afghanistan.

Fortunately, I have got the chance to be a participant in the APT-ANAHO leadership class. This program was incredibly exceptional for me; I gained a bunch of insightful information and experiences from nice characters and lecturers. They made unforgettable memories for me plus we had fun and a sweet time with each other. The lessons that I learned such as leadership, team building, communication, how to deal with conflicts, what is my values, how to respect others’ values, what is my 10 most precious goals, and how to set my goals. I really learned and experienced many valuable things in these ten sessions. I am happy that in this dreadful situation, in which everyone lost their hopes, LDP helped us to stay hopeful and positive and helped youths to go toward their goals and be optimistic about their future. I believe that youths are diamonds in a society, as much as we polish diamonds, they become precious, so the youth of Afghanistan need to be polished to become unique and exceptional.”

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Ms. Somaia Qasemi

This is Somaia Qasemi. I study sociology at Kabul Educational University. I studied English years ago up to the pre-advance level. I like reading novels books and also Biographies. I love painting and calligraphy and I do it in my free time. I love the calligraphy of Persian poems, especially the poems of Rumi…

“This is Somaia Qasemi. I study sociology at Kabul Educational University. I studied English years ago up to the pre-advance level. I like reading novels books and also Biographies. I love painting and calligraphy and I do it in my free time. I love the calligraphy of Persian poems, especially the poems of Rumi. I joined APT in 2022, It was a good course for learning leadership and when I joined, I learned many good and important points about leadership like communicating with people, values, setting goals, my own leadership and the leader characteristics, and in this course, I met many good people. I made many good friends with different backgrounds and leadership potentials, we had many national and international instructors with different backgrounds who were really experts in their fields and one of them was from Germany that made me know what German people think about Afghan people.

Overall, our leadership program was awesome. In this program, I learned that leadership is very important and to lead is to influence people, to make people our followers by their heart and it can happen everywhere like at home, at university, among our friends, and in our relations. Actually, before joining this program my goals were not clear to me, and even though I didn’t have any specific plan for myself. Now I learned how to have a plan and how to set my goals not only this but also, I was weak at communicating with people but I came to know that communication is important and as a result, now I have a notebook and every night I write all my activities which I did during the day and I write my goals and I am trying to find ways for achieving them. At the end, I thank APT for providing such a great program for youths in Afghanistan”.

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Mr. Ahmad Sayeed Dildar

My name is Ahmad Sayeed Dildar, a Student of Civil Engineering at Kardan University. I am a curious person that always falls in thinking that how things are going to be created or how things are joined, especially in terms of construction. I like to play football, watch Hollywood series…

“My name is Ahmad Sayeed Dildar, a student of Civil Engineering at Kardan University. I am a curious person that always falls in thinking that how things are going to be created or how things are joined, especially in terms of construction. I like to play football, watch Hollywood series, and read books in my free time.

My journey with APT started after I met a person who had completed a program. I don’t remember which program it was, but I do remember it was an online program by APT, and this student posted their online session photos with other young boys and girls in 2021. So, I was somehow interested to join one of the APT programs. So, I connected with the Facebook page of APT and was checking their newsfeed every week consequently, in Nov-2022 I saw their post on Facebook that they are going to launch a leadership program in person with the collaboration of ANAHO. Finally, after submitting an application and passing the interview successfully, now I am one of the participants that reached this program. I have learned so many things from this program, which starts from how to set a basic goal for my life journey in this world, up to having a passion to be a servant leader in our society. Before joining this program, I was thinking that changing others could help our society to be the better one, but now I realized changing myself and being the best version of myself could bring a little change in society, not by changing others and the little changes with action by every one of us could bring a huge change in our society. Further, now I am able to be the leader of my own journey, and to pass successfully from those challenges that I face in my life journey, whether it is in terms of academic challenges, business challenges, or other challenges”.

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