Rowad Association for Community Development finished a training course in leadership skills entitled "Your Life's Plan" for young people. The course comes within Pioneers program, which was launched in the middle of June 2013 and nearly 50 juniors and youth took part in the program.

Osama Abu Shanab, the lecturer, talked about the importance of this course as it aimd at collecting information and predicting assumption in the future to form the required activities to fulfil the planned goals. He added that planning is an administrative art and as long as it is logical and meets data and available sources, it will be a tool to achieve effective time. Moreover, in order to have a logical planning, we should take into consideration many aspects in the right planning. The course included many topics as definition of the plan, its importance, methods of writing a successful plan, planning obstacles and some pieces of advice.

Mohammed Abu Side appreciated the attendance of Mr. Abu Shanab and he talked about the significance of the course. Abu Sido said that "Do not start planning and your mind is distracted, you have to do it carefully and think patiently, and some minutes of quiet thinking save hours of hard work". He mentioned that this course comes within a series of training developmental and cultural courses target young people. Moreover, they are within Pioneers program, which was launched in the mid of June 2013. Rowad aims at holding more courses and cultural seminars that promote the youth and their abilities.

It is worth mentioning that the association finished lately a lecture about "traffic concepts" for juniors in Gaza City.