Q4 NEWSLETTERAIESEC Mauritius

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Content1. Project: Hope for Orphans

2. Project: Choose Life NOT Drugs

3. Global Village

4. Project: Youth against Diabetes

5. Resigned partnership

6. Project partnership: The Circle of Trust

7. Child empowerment project

8. Upcoming opportunities

Time passes by very quickly, if you are working and are involved in activities. AIESEC Mauritius alsofinisheditssecondquarterwhichwentpassby so quickly due to various numbers of activities we were involved in.

This last quarter has truly been an experiential Leadership journey for most of the members on the National and the local level merely because we recruited new generation of AIESEC, who will be leading AIESEC Mauritius for the coming 2-3 years. This was the time when leaders of the organization at the local and the National level started the actual work after being familiar to the reality of work and people around.Making young people work as volunteers without even paying them,for theirownbenefit,sothat theycouldchange the world for better and have a positive impact on the society is not the easiest of job in the world. Doing so, was again a big learning andreflection journeyfor theyoung leadersofthe organization.

Our ambition of engaging and developing every young person in Mauritius keeps us going ahead even when we have challenges on our way. This newsletter states all the activities we did in the pre-vious quarter which got us closer to our ambition and enabled us to empower the youth of this nation.

The quarter report will also give you a brief of the upcoming activities through which possibilities of collaboration can be found. We look forward to any kind of your support to reach out to every young person of Mauritius.

Thank youDeepa Khatri

President 2011-12AIESEC Mauritius

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Hope for OrphansHope for Orphans is an initiative by AIESEC in University of Mauritius supported by Spoon Consulting Ltd. This project is on a 10 weeks duration and started on 18th of November 2011. It aimed at teaching orphans soft skills through different activities and also bring a smile on their face during this end of year festive period.

The different Orphanages and NGO’s which par-ticipated in the program are:• Gayasing Ashram• Fraternité Nord Sud• SOS Village Beau Bassin• Shelter for Women and Children in distress• SOS village Bambous

Among the different activities organized in these orphanages and NGO’s were:-

• Painting competition• Fun Games • Sport dayThe drawings made during these competi-tions were collected and displayed on the 3rd December 2011 at an exhibition in Quatre Bornes municipal council. The best contestants in the drawing competition were rewarded during the Global Village. More than 150 children partici-pated in this program in the various orphanages and NGO’s.

Choose Life NOT DrugsChoose Life NOT Drugs is a 6 week programme run by AIESEC in University of technology of Mauritius having as learning partner, Idriss Goomany and Centre d’Accueil de Terre Rouge. The aim of this project is to address the drug issue in Mauritius by sensitising the youngsters against drugs abuse. This programme started mid December.

There are 12 international participants in this program who are going through anintensivetrainingforthefirst2weeksoftheprojecttobepreparedtodeliversessions to secondary schools.

The target is to sensitise 2000 students against drugs and the sessions will be mainly delivered to the upper secondary students.

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Global VillageOn the 17th of December 2011, AIESEC Mauritius held a Global Village at Shoprite to celebrate diversity which is one of our organisation core values. There were stands of more than 15 countries scattered all over the shopping com-plex showcasing their culture through traditional food, music and costumes.

This event also aimed at bringing a festive mood for underprivileged children coming from Fraternité Nord Sud and Lakaz A; 2 NGO’s work-ing with children coming from pockets of poverty in the vicinity of Port Louis. A drawing and paint-ing competition was held in the morning followed by lunch. We were happy to bring a smile on the face of the 70 children who participated in this event.

The afternoon agenda consisted of cultural live performances from Mauritians and AIESEC international participants. Despite the bad pre-vailing weather that day, the crowd was there to watch the performances and enjoy the cultural diversity.

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Youth against DiabetesYouth against Diabetes is a 6 weeks program by AIESEC in University of Mauritius to sensi-tise Mauritians against Diabetes. Mauritius is in fact the 4th country where there is a high prevalence of diabetes worldwide which shows a high prevalence of this disease in the coun-try. The main learning partner for this project is Diabetes Parent Support Group an NGO lead by Mrs Rani Balloo. This programme consists of an intensive training of 75 hours on Diabetes to the 17

international participants who are participating in this movement for a better living. The proj-ect was launched on the 16th of December and it has for aim to reach out to 1500 Mauritians. Throughout this awareness campaign being run, participation of more than 900 persons has been recorded.

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Partnership Signed with HSBC and CurrimjeeSince the establishment of AIESEC in Mauritius, there have been few companies who have given their immense support to the organization and who truly believe in the work of young leaders who call themselves “change agent” aiming to change the society by having a positive impact inwhicheverfieldtheywork.

I am very happy to announce that AIESEC Mauritius resigned the partnership with HSBC

Project partnernership with The Circle of TrustIn November, Circle Charitable Trust became again partner for AIESEC Mauritius for the next phase of NGO Empowerment project which starts in January.

Main objectives are relief of poverty, advance-ment of education and advancement of human rights.

Through this project we will have 20 internation-als which will come in Mauritius to work in our partnering NGOs.

and Currimjee for the year 2011-12, hence sup-porting AIESEC in its goal of activating youth Leadership in Mauritius.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank, both HSBC and Currimjee for believing in us con-stantly and supporting us throughout the 4 year journey. I hope that this partnership continues foryearsaheadtocomeandthatwefulfillalltheobjectives and ambition which we set together for the youth empowerment in Mauritius.

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Closing ceremony of Child empowerment project

On 7th of December, AIESEC Mauritius along with Omnicane Foundation held a closing cer-emony for the Child empowerment project. This project was an initiative of AIESEC in cooperation with NGOs (Fraternité Nord Sud, APEIM, CEDEM along with the rest) aimed to have a positive impact upon vulnerable children by teaching them life skills, English, mathematics, different sports, music, painting etc. This Project enabled 40 talented International young volunteers to come down from 20 different countries to work

with more than 400 vulnerable children to bring a change in their lives.

The ceremony took place at the MITD lec-ture theatre in the presence of Mr Rajivsingh Ramlugon, Sustainable development coordinator of Omnicane Foundation, Ms Shalini Sinha, rep-resenting the CSR Committee, Ms Deepa Kharti, president of AIESEC in Mauritius, representa-tives of the partnering NGOs of the Project and AIESEC Members from 5 different Universities.

Kenji Athaw, AIESEC Member and Project Manager, said, “A recent survey showed that there are around 19 000 orphans in Mauritius”. He also emphasized on the importance of young Mauritians, contributing to this issue of vulner-able children by taking responsibility to work for the cause. He presented a report on the Project with the impact created on these children focus-sing on the fact that the children in the NGOs spent an amazing time with the international Volunteers from AIESEC Mauritius. The Children were exposed to a whole new world of possi-bilities, motivation, new learning experiences by the help of informal teaching via the internation-als who made them believe on their dreams and

that they could achieve anything they want in their Lives which became the key output of the Project.

Mrs. Shalini Sinha, from CSR committee stated that education is the most valuable thing that can be given to unprivileged children. She also stated that the method which AIESEC young volunteers (local and international) use is an amazing way of informal teaching which has more effect and impact than the formal way of teaching.

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Opportunities for companies to partner with AIESECInternational talentBy taking international interns, your company is not only ben-efitingfromthetop-globaltalentwithinournetwork,butyouarealso contributing to the growth and success of the local AIESEC student chapter, inevitably producing a higher output of profes-sionally and personally developed locals, who are ready to enter the workforce. The following information details how your com-pany can access these highly-sought after leaders of tomorrow.

International internships promotionsAIESEC Mauritius is starting with the recruitment for International internships from the last week of February. The promotion will go until the last week of March. The main focus of this recruitment is to recruit large number of Global Community Development Program Exchange Participants. This time a lot of activities and mini global villages in the universities will be organized to attract the students for the International Internship Opportunities.

What’s in it for a company?Partnering with AIESEC will assure your company employer branding among Mauritian students, access to top local and international talent. It also gives you a good opportunity to network with other top companies from Mauritius as well as to contribute for the youth empowerment in the nation.