Our leadership course will help our students to understand that: “No-one is a leader for his own good, nor for his family, but for the whole good of the whole community”, and that unlawful profiteering from leadership, is to make oneself ashamed.
Similarly, graduates of our school will not dishonor themselves by leading others to poverty if they achieve a position of economic power. We must resist the corruption which is becoming endemic since the refugee crisis and the wars. This is how we will begin to restore a society respectful of human rights.
We intend to reinforce the democratic system in the region, recommending good leadership and the respect of human rights. We define democracy as “ People’s power for people and by people” and will teach our children how that differs from the suffering caused by private management based on wealth.
A good leader does not pretend anything. Currently, democracy is not strong in our region. Human Rights Associations have raised our awareness, but their funding runs out and they disappear before the change has become established in the culture. We need to build these values into our own institutions so that we can teach them constantly, until they can take root and become truly ours.
When speaking of human rights, we think of Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. At the moment, only university graduates in DRC come into contact with the idea of human rights but, if those notions were accessible to everybody, and from childhood, it could make a real change in our society. To undergo a training of about twenty articles of universal declaration of human rights would take place in days or weeks instead of five years at university to know those rights.