Mountain View Launches an Extra Ordinary Youth Development Program for their community

Today’s Generation Z is born into worlds that operate with technology, depriving them from having the sweet essence of real life interactions. Even with the advantages brought with technology and increased informationalaccesses, nothing can replace the gain of information from actual real life experience. Asveterans of building unique and active communities,Mountain View has taken it upon themselves to nurture a generation capable of great adversity and innovation.

The Youth Development Program gives kids &young adults the means to practice independence and entrepreneurial creativity. The Youth Development Program is focused on allowing them to have their own sense of responsibility by giving them the opportunity to partake in a program of their choice that suits their interestsand would enhance their life skills and build their sense of self-responsibility; teaching them critical skills as problem solving, innovative thinking and team work. Each of these allow participants to put their thoughts into action while also earning money.

Offering a 3-day Paid internship, the program rewards participants with salaries and certificates as proof of their fruitful participation and the hard work that they put in. The program started this summer at Mountain View Ras El Hikma, but it is not limited to their Sahel compound as it is a whole-rounded project dedicated to all their residential communities. This is proof of the dedication and continuous innovative strategies that Mountain View tries to achieve not just in their progressive architectural structures and innovative concepts, but also in creating a community that allows their residents to have a full-nourished living experience aiming to help raise well rounded men & women with character.

Enrollment started on the 12th of August and it has already been met with great satisfaction and fondness from both the parents and children with over a 100 participants. The aim of the program is to allow the kids to have the opportunity to fill their remaining days of summer vacation in ways which would benefit them on the long-run; the program offers different tracks, such as facility management, entrepreneurship program, and marketing specialization.

Each of these focuses on a number of activities that allow the kids to get a full experience. For instance, the entrepreneurship program focuses on allowing the kids to see their own dreams come to reality by the help of an instructor’s supervision, they get to create their own business from concept to profit gain while implementing their personal branding. Whereas the marketing program revolves around activities that include social media and on ground activations.