YLAR stands for the Young Leaders Alliance of Rizal, a collaborative organization that seeks to inculcate the values and principle of servant leadership for the aspiring youth leaders who want to make a difference in their community.
Originally started as school-based organization, August 2006 embarks the birth of Young Leaders Alliance of Morong (YLAM) when the first Leadership Academy was open to the student leaders of the University of Rizal System-Morong Campus. The leadership academy envisions uniting student leaders from different organizations for a common cause of joining hand for the betterment of URSM studentry.
Being an organization armed by 28 alumnus of Batch 1, YLAM served as a channeled organization for a numerous activities and advocacies run by the different youth organizations outside the campus that result for a bigger responsibility of helping the student leaders not only in Morong but to channel its networks on its extension campuses and in Rizal community as a whole.
To address the growing needs of spreading the passion of servant leadership, the opening of the second and third leadership academy in 2007 and 2008 respectively resulted to the integration of the Young Leaders Alliance of Rizal (YLAR) when its founding councils had the ratification of its constitution and by-laws on January 25, 2009.
YLAR on its quest to become the center of servant leadership in the Province of Rizal was now an organization of both student and young professionals who want to become an agent of change and epitome of a leader with shared values and passion for service.
The organization caters facilitating of team building and group dynamics with designed modules on structured learning experiences for high school and college student leaders as well as Sanguniang Kabataan members, civic youth groups and out-of-school youth.
As the organization primarily aimed to develop and hone the leadership capabilities of every Rizaleños, the passion doesn’t end in the four walls of the province as the organization continues to spread out its voluntary service in advocating youth issues and national concern such as climate change, peace and human rights, environmental sustainability and youth role for nation building to name a few.
Leadership only serves as one factor for an organization to move forward but there is one thing this must be partnered of; for YLAR “it’s not just about leadership, its passion for service.”
