It was during Malaysian Student Leaders Summit 2008 where I got to know from Tengku Zafrul’s speech that he is starting up a new organization of youth leaders named Leaders for Tomorrow or better known as L4T amongst its exco-members.

I’ve been attending the meeting and I liked the whole agenda and focus of the group. The meeting is serious in a way that it is very formal and people who are in the exco-councils are leaders in their own capacity.

Recently, L4T has their official press conference to introduce L4T and it was attended by media members. This is one of L4T’s first outreach to the general public and to create awareness and interest.

Let me just quote a source of news release from Bernama for your understanding.

Bernama : New L4T Aims To Develop Young Leaders & Entrepreneurs

Date Posted: 20/08/2008

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 19 (Bernama) — A group of individuals from the corporate sector have come together to set up “Leaders for Tomorrow” (L4T), an organisation aimed at developing young leaders and entrepreneurs in Malaysia.

L4T chairman Tengku Zafrul Aziz said the organisation, backed by its board of trustees with notables like Datuk Seri Tony Fernandes and Datuk Seri Nazir Razak, will run a series of programmes within the next several months to create dynamic, passionate, motivated and values-based leaders.

“L4T is a non-profit organisation aimed at developing Malaysian youth into leaders who are able to compete globally. It also provides a platform for constructive engagement,” he said during the launch of L4T here Tuesday.

Tengku Zafrul is also chief executive officer of Tune Money Sdn Bhd, a company that provides affordable personal finance services.

L4T is open to working Malaysian aged between 21 and 40 with miniumum qualifications of SPM. Annual membership fee is RM100.

According to Tengku Zafrul, L4T will focus on globalisation and Malaysia, tertiary and community education, economic and industry development, media, culture and heritage, and leadership camps which encompass training, personal development and voluntary projects.

“We also intend to reach out to younger potential leaders, through the ‘Cilipadi’ programme which will identify those aged 16 to 17 from underprivileged families and assign them an L4T member as mentor,” he said.

Tengku Zafrul said L4T programmes, which included overseas leadership exchanges, seminars and workshops, will be sponsored by the Malaysian corporate sector.

Source: Bernama

The Cilipadi programme is one such of a programme which would focus towards the developments of deserving students who are in their secondary schools till College till graduation. This programme is pretty much like a mentorship programme where we have say for example, myself given three students to be my mentees and I shall be their mentor from where they are (upper secondary) till they graduate either from college or university.
There are other many fun, learning, networking as well as CSR type of programmes being planned by L4T and it will be implimented on stages.
All programmes and how L4T is going to be run relates pretty much to L4T’s Five Domain Areas :
  • Globalization and Malaysia
  • Tertiary and Community Education
  • Economic and Industry Development
  • Media, Culture and Heritage
  • Leadership Camps – Training, Personal Development, L4T Voluntary Projects, etc.

Visit L4T’s WEBSITE to register yourself now and learn more about the organization.

Visit also L4T’s FACEBOOK GROUP and join yourself as a member there!

That’s all for now.. more questions.. leave them in the comments.. :D