Babson Leads Summer Entrepreneurial Leadership Academy in Ghana and Rwanda

WELLESLEY, Mass., July 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Babson College is bringing teams of volunteers, including students, staff, faculty, alumni, parents, and friends, to Ghana and Rwanda this summer to teach and develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills

Babson's Provost and Senior VP Dennis Hanno is leading the teams as part of the Babson Entrepreneurial Leadership Academies (BELA) program.

Consistent with Babson's mission to educate entrepreneurial leaders who create great economic and social value everywhere, Babson holds one-week programs in countries throughout Africa that work with high-school students to develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills. The week of training ends with rocket pitch competition with the intention of allowing participants to use the skills gained throughout the learning session.

In Ghana, Dennis Hanno and his team worked with over 100 high school learners in a work intensive environment that not only provides valuable skills for the students, but an invaluable opportunity for volunteers to garner new friendships, be exposed to a new culture, and challenge themselves to work successfully with limited resources.

While the Ghana experience just ended, a second team also led by Hanno will head to Rwanda in early August. Earlier this year, the Babson Entrepreneurial Leadership Academy held a session in Uganda and there are plans for a return trip to Tanzania where an Academy was conducted in 2012.

Learn about Babson Entrepreneurial Leadership Academies: http://bit.ly/18IWlu6

Follow Hanno's reports on the trips via Twitter: @dhanno

About Babson College

Babson College is the educator, convener, and thought leader for Entrepreneurship of All Kinds(tm). The College is a dynamic living and learning laboratory, where students, faculty, and staff work together to address the real-world problems of business and society -- while at the same time evolving our methods and advancing our programs. We shape the leaders our world needs most: those with strong functional knowledge and the skills and vision to navigate change, accommodate ambiguity, surmount complexity, and motivate teams in a common purpose to create economic and social value. As we have for nearly a half-century, Babson continues to advance Entrepreneurial Thought and Action(r) as the most positive force on the planet for generating sustainable economic and social value. For information, visit www.babson.edu.

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