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Thursday 12 March 2020

Heart-Centered Leadership

Foundation launches its youth

wing HC Youth Leaders

SAN NICOLAS —Heart-Centered Leadership Foundation
launched its youth club HC Youth Leaders at the end of
2019. HC Youth Leaders was officially launched with the
installation of its first board and youth members.

Heart-Centered Leadership Foundation launched in 2008
with the mission of inspiring and empowering the youth of
Aruba to unleash their full potential. The youth club’s pur-
pose is to be a sounding board for the foundation when
it comes to youth-related topics, while also directly work-
ing on the foundation’s mission. HC Youth Leaders’ activi-
ties focus on the principle of being ‘for the youth by the
youth’. The 3 main activities are HC Bon (HC Good), which
promotes volunteer work; HC Consciente (HC Aware-
ness) which centers on activities that raise awareness on
different topics; HC Hunto (HC Together) which are mo-
ments where the club comes together and brainstorms
on projects they want to implement in their community.
The HC in the activity titles is a reference to the HC Youth
Leader name, but is also a play on the Papiamento word
‘hasi’ which means ‘to do’.

The first board of HC Youth Leaders consists of five mem-
bers: President of the board Haddasah Lamarre, Secre-
tary Xaui Thijsen, Treasurer Nathan Tromp, and members
of the board Keilah Geerman and Uchenna Eugene.
These five young people have been volunteers with
Heart-Centered Leadership Foundation for years, where
they started off as participants in seminars the foundation
offers and then continued on as volunteers assisting in dif-
ferent trainings, workshops, seminars and activities for the
youth organized by the foundation. HC Youth Leaders
currently has 10 members between the ages of 15 – 20.
Since the youth club’s launch, HC Youth Leaders have
been actively busy with monthly general meetings, de-
liberating and planning their calendar of activities for
2020. Furthermore, Members have received a workshop
on what is a ‘heart-centered leader’, where they learned
more about different leadership styles and the impor-
tance of being a heart-centered leader in our commu-
nity. This past weekend, in commemoration of Interna-
tional Women’s Day, the members realized their first HC
Consciente activity when they handed out hand-made
cards with positive messages in the Paseo Herencia area
to empower and inspire women on their day.

Follow HC Youth Leaders on their Facebook page Heart-
Centered Youth Leaders and on their Instagram hcyouth-
leaders.aruba to keep up with all that the club is doing for
the Aruban community. q