This is a character building camp for 14 year old boys who have never had the opportunity to attend any camps. These boys are predominantly those who face various challenges in school, at home and in society.

The volunteers are there to help with the organising as well as to journey with the boys throughout the camp.

Our volunteers comprise of male and female youths between the ages of 18-30.

Participants stayed at a forest reserve for two nights and three days.

L.E.A.D. is an outdoor based camp that is fun filled with lots of learning focusing on team and character building.

The first activity was a 4 km hike. Their stamina was tested and their endurance especially to leeches. There was mixed reactions to being bitten by leeches ranging from amusement to fright.

The boys were given a team task to build rafts and had a chance to test it out in the stream.

The treasure hunt gave them a chance to put on their thinking caps and work together to solve clues that came in the form of questions and tasks at various stations that eventually led to the treasure.

There were also indoor sessions on discovering themselves and how they relate to the people around them.  The boys acted out their school realities which gave them an opportunity to bring out what takes place in their school setting and how they have been dealing with it, for example, bullying.

A session on the importance of education was included at the tail end of the camp to give participants a greater awareness of how their education and learning experiences will affect their lives.

This is a La Salle centre programme that is offered to our various Lasallian secondary schools.

The first L.E.A.D programme was in 2002. About 3 schools on average take on this programme yearly.