Indigenous Youth Engagement

Partnering in Schools

 

LEIP Scholarship Program

 

The LEIP Scholarship Program (LSP) promotes logistics empowerment among K-12 students in rural areas by providing scholarships to students with financial need from majority indigenous communities.

LEIP students are business-minded, self-motivated young people who are in need of financial assistance. Participating schools are responsible for selecting annual scholarship recipients who, once selected, are eligible to receive recognition and a one-time lump-sum payment from LEIP for the purpose of supporting their continued education.

To be eligible, applicants must be full-time students located in designated LEIP geographical locations.

Logistics Partnering in Schools

 

Naniq offers a partnering opportunity for rural schools which teaches students about logistics work while providing scholastic funds for athletic trips, new books, or other scholastic needs of the school and community.

Packages are routed out to rural communities by Naniq where they are received by the schools and held in the school commissaries for “call stop” delivery to local residents. Students working the commissaries are taught business sense by effectively staffing and managing a full-scale final mile delivery operation. Students are expected to:

  1. Compare manifested packs to received packs and making note of discrepancies

  2. Engage in professional email correspondences with the Naniq dispatch team

  3. Call customers to notify them that packs are ready for pickup

  4. Scan packages as “delivered” when they are picked up by consignees

  5. Record and file paper / electronic proof of each delivery (POD)

  6. Invoice for delivered packages weekly

These activities teach students about the core acumen needed to execute logistics services as well as demonstrating general business processes like professional use of email and invoicing.

Payments for this work are issued directly to the schools and can be used for any LEIP-approved expenditure for the enrichment of K-12 students in majority indigenous rural locations.

Workshops

We frequently send logistics professionals to remote areas to teach courses in schools about the field of logistics and the opportunities that are available to the students if they choose to pursue a career in logistics. This exposure opens minds to an industry that works invisibly at all times to make the supply of goods and services possible and is of especially essential importance to remote communities.

Some of the most prominent employers in remote areas are the airlines, ship services, or road logistics companies that supply the areas with necessities like groceries and medicine. The logistics field represents many lucrative career opportunities that could allow the indigenous youth in our workshops to do great work for their own communities as well as other indigenous communities.