LEAP

Veganville is excited to be partnering with LEAP for the 2024-2025 school year! This new humane education program, “Leaders for Ethics, Animals, and the Planet” (LEAP) offers participants hands-on farmed and domestic animal care experience, humane education, and the opportunity to earn a $500 scholarship by participating with Veganville. We encourage any interested high school students to apply for the Fall semester with a deadline of September 30, 2024.

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As humanity enters a dangerous threshold for our viability on this planet, LEAP
asks young leaders to critically examine the systems and traditions that have
led to this point. We are excited to share this rigorous yet rewarding program
with students in our community starting this fall.

The Program

Founded by three non-profit sanctuaries in Northern California, LEAP (Leaders for Ethics, Animals, and the Planet) is the first-of its-kind humane education program to reach high school students as a compassionate alternative to traditional agricultural programs like 4H and FFA.

Each week from October 2024 to June 2025, for 10 hours per month, students and their peers will meet at Veganville to care for rescued animals, assist with infrastructure projects, and participate in a humane education curriculum, all culminating in a community-based project related to the rescued animals!
LEAP empowers students to be compassionate catalysts for change, by addressing three main points: the ethics of using animals for industry and its effects on human communities, connecting with and caring for rescued animals, and what we can do to curb climate change.
At the end of the student’s completed term with LEAP, they will receive a financial scholarship of $500 to put toward their future.

Providing in-depth monthly curriculum, high-impact leadership training, and hands-on workshops in both sanctuaries and urban settings, LEAP will prepare the next generation of leaders to transform our food systems, advocate for animal welfare and human rights, tackle the challenges of food deserts and diet related diseases, and lead the way in climate solutions, sustainability, and wildlife conservation.

LEAP empowers young people, teaching them that empathy for others is a strength, not a weakness. With humanity at a major crossroads, there’s no better time for our youth to leap forward into a more compassionate and forward-thinking society.

Focus Areas

LEAP provides education and experiences for high school students in areas including:

Hands-on, compassionate animal care
Food and agricultural systems
Leadership development
Wildlife and ocean conservation
Farmed animal welfare
Human health supported by a vegan diet
The intersection of human and animal rights
Climate change solutions
Social emotional learning
Food deserts and food insecurity
Domestic animal care
Vegan cooking
Effective advocacy
Rewilding the land
Veganic gardening
Community outreach

What Sets LEAP Apart from Other Youth Agricultural Programs?

LEAPers will have many of the same opportunities that other agriculture programs offer with some unique and important differences:

Working with other LEAPers from around the region
Learning public speaking, advocacy, responsibility, and other leadership skills
Participating in local events and giving back to the community
Learning from experts and mentors
Competing for financial compensation (in the form of scholarships) for their efforts
Helping provide healthy food to their communities without harming animals
Spending time caring for animals without the financial and emotional burden of raising a slaughter-bound animal

Apply Here!

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