AIESEC LEGON 4th NEWSLETTER

AIESEC LEGON NEWSLETTER

4th edition 23rd JULY 2012

project updates personality of the week

events

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general meeting

Intern trips

chinese dinner night

Q. When did you join AIESEC?A. September 2009

A. LC Legon

Q. Which Local Committee did you join AIESEC from?

Q. How many positions have you held in your time in your Local Committee?A. Exchnage team leader, afritour 2010/2011, Electoral commission, deputy chair 2010/2011, NST NEXT, AIESEC Ghana 2011/2012 and VPOGX 2012 to dateQ. In all the positions you have held, what are some of the challenges you faced and how did you overcome or manage them?A. I nearly quit AIESEC during my time as the exchange team leader for the Afritour project because of financial reasons and geographical location. I will like to use this platform to congratulate my project director during that period, who motivated me and gave me an insight about what I was expected to do. This serves as a turning point to my life since AIESEC has now given me the chance to harness my potential.

Q. What is your greatest achievement as an AIESECer?A. Being part of the Afritour project during the year 2010/2011,that was able to make direct impact towards a deprived community in the Western region of Ghana and which eventually led the project to become the best among all other projects run in the LC.

Q. Which schools did you attend? Elementary, Junior High, Senior High, University…A. Bawjiase D/A JHS, Swedru School of Business, University of Ghana

Q. Which subjects did you study in the University, and what was your major if any?A. Political Science and Psychology

Q. What are your hobbies?A. Playing and watching football

Q. What is your favourite meal?A. Fufu with groundnut soup

Q. On a lighter note, are you dating�?A. hahaa , NO

Q. What advice do you have for AIESEC Members especially the new members?A. They should love whatever they do in AIESEC and they need to be ready for any sacrifices in AIESEC because if you don’t like what you do, you will always fizzle out.

Branham AnamonLCVP GIP/GCDPo and EXpansion

PERSONALITY OF THE WEEK

Personality of the week is a feature in The AIESEC Legon Newsletter where a member of the organization is interviewed and the results published. This week we are honouring a very distinguished and congenial member who has showed great passion and dedication to our esteemed LC through his marvelous achievements and outstanding character. All these accolades are only deserving of our very own EFO.

your actions represent

youmore than the

words you sayBRANHAM ZOKOMON ANAMONBY

The SWITCH project, which won the best projects of the year 2011 - 2012 shows no sign of slowing down this AIESEC year. Work started on the 1st of June as the project worked with KREATIVE ISLAND,

their partner by helping with advertisements for their IT trianings.

The project is also currently working with its extremely hardworking interns Andreas(Sweden), Lane(China), Kaya(Norway), Lizzie(China) and Ethan(Australia) who are teaching in deprived junior

high schools. So far, they have been working in schools like Graceful Grace Academy and Evangelical Presbyterian School.

Some are also working with Redco 2. So much has happened and so much more is going to

happen........As the school is about to begin, we wish all members the best and an awesome year.

DESMOND AGBESHIECOMM TL

truely discovering Africa

Afritour this year set its goal; Promoting tourism, Impact in tourism society and Explore (PIE). This goal will be realised through our plans for this year which are tourism seminars in high

schools, community development and a trip.

The �rst of the interns arrived on 29th June and have been working very meticulously with PD’s and TL’s. The community based project has been started and it is centered in the

community of Doryumu. On 4th July, they visited Doryumu, a community around the Shai Hills. Our choice for Doryumu was because it was located around Shai Hills and the community

had a tourist attraction which is the Shai game reserve and also the Shai Hills.

The community had just started a senior high school with about 28 �rst years students. Since it was starting, the school lacked some educational materials. The plan is to help raise funds for

school materials such as stationeries. Interns are also going to assist by being volunteer teachers at the school. The school was also visited on 12th July by the Yvonne, Ling Xiang and

Andy (Chinese interns) and Nathasha(PD) and Genevieve(Comm TL). On this visit, interns interacted with the students and shared a bit of their Chinese culture with them through

presentations.

THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING........

NATHASHA ANSAHPROJECT DIRECTOR

PROJECTS UPDATES

SWITCH PROJECT

AFRITOUR PROJECT

PROJECT UPDATES

GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT

This year, the ASK project is made up of Nachina(PD), Maryesther(X TL), Evelyn(Promotions TL) and Sandra(Learning TL) together with their able interns. The team will be having training sessions in

selected schools about HIV/AIDS. They will also be embarking on a massive counselling and testing session in a selected community. This is to inform and alert the residents about the threats posed by

the diseaseas well as the preventive measures that can be employed to �ght its spread.

So far, the project has had 3 interns. Angelika Mantikas and Wen Ge from USA worked with WAAF, the project’s partner and the third, Elsa from China is currently working with the schools and other

partners.

Through the hardwork and relentless e�orts of the entire team, the project has also been able to renew its partnership with WAAF, SAFINA and METALLEX.

JUST WARMING UP............

ASK PROJECT

AIESEC LEGON GLOBAL VILLAGE is working towards creating culture diversity and awareness. Whatsmore, we seek to drive a

sense of shared responsibility to environmental safety.

With our �ve junior high schools on board, the team together with two interns Felicity and Harry both from china are all

working in this direction. We have started teaching at St. Peter LutheranSchool.

In line with our environmental safety campaign the team has been to the environmental protection agency. We met with the head of education at EPA and had a very fruitful discussion with him. They are interested in partnering with us and pledge their

support.

At the same time we are also trying to raise funds for the project. We are contacting a number of embassies, organizations and

companies for sponsorship and collaboration.

In all, everything on course and everyone is working hard towards an exciting and successful

GLOBAL VILLAGE 2012/2013.

INTERN EXPERIENCE

name: Li Weijiacountry: Chinaproject: Global village

about work

about touring

To be honest, as a college freshmen majoring in Mathematics, I knew nothing about marketing before I came to Ghana. But thanks to my project Director Reina, she patiently showed me how to do everything. We modified the letters for embassies together, sent our proposals to every related company; we went to the NGO’s, schools, and companies. It’s such fun when you are doing meaningful things that you never thought you would handle successfully. I still remember that there was a time when we were discussing about how to make one sentence look more professional and clear, we both stopped talking for a while, and then all of a sudden, we said the same thing together!! It was amazing, like we are really closed to each other.In a word, before I came here, I thought my job was to share, while actually, we are learning from each other. Thank you, AIESEC Legon, and I love you, Ghana.

So far my favorite place in Ghana is Kakum National park. It is in Cape Coast. Actually, the main reason why I chose to come to Africa is because I think it’s the most natural and beautiful continent in the world. Therefore, when I knew that we would visit rainforest, you can’t possibly imagine how happy I was. When we arrived in Kakum, it was raining heavily. For a time, I was worried that we wouldn’t be able to get in. But it turned out to be that it’s more exciting to visit Kakum on a rainy day. The ground was so wet and… that one of my friends had to take off her shoes! While I was walking through the giant trees and bare roots, I felt totally relaxed. No more worried about the work. I just imagined, I had been living there since I was born. The hiking took 45 minutes, too short for me. How I wish I could go back again!

LC UPDATES

two months down the road.............

It gives me great joy to announce to you that due to the heroic e�orts of the

AIESEC Legon 2011/2012 EB team, our glorious LC has been crowned the

LC OF THE YEAR for 2011/2012.

WOOHOOOOOOO

*

*Other awards won include:- Discovery of the Year - Nneka Egwuata Best Sales Person - Dorren Josiah Most Financially Sustainable LC - LC Legon Best GIP Manager - Derrick Sarkwa

CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALL FOR MAKING OUR LC

STAY ON TOP FOR

3 YEARS RUNNING.HEY AIESEC!!!!

LC UPDATES


Since the beginning of the AIESEC year, the LC has both its members and TL’s inquite a number of activities. Some of which include........

Local Strategic Planning Meeting

TL Training Seminar

This event was organised by the LCP for the entire EB team from 4th - 6th June.At this event, individual portfolio plans as well as general LC goals andobjectives were generated and practical ways of making this year even biggerthan last year were decided on.

Upon careful assessment of the current strengths and weaknesses of the TL’s ofour most esteemed LC, it was deemed appropriate to have a training sessionfor our very able TL’s to further equip them for the exciting year ahead. This training was done on Project Management and Time Management. There were also trainings on myaiesec.net and also some sales training was done.

LC UPDATES


FIRST LC GENERAL MEETING

CHINESE DINNER NIGHT

This meeting was very excitingas for the �rst time since the startof the AIESEC year, membersand interns where broughttogether. There were also trainingson the current state of the AIESECX management and projectbrie�ngs.

On this night, the true purpose of being an AIESECer was truly displayed. Our beloved chinese treated the locals to lots of magni�cent cuisines. Some of which included Chinese sushi(紫菜包饭), stir-fried tomato with egg(番茄), cucumber(玉米粒炒青瓜),salted duck eggs(咸鸭蛋),rice(米饭),noddles(面条).

LC UPDATES


CHINESE DINNER NIGHT PHOTO GALLERY

LC UPDATES


AND NOW, IT GIVES ME GREAT PLEASURE TO INTRODUCETO YOU, THE LC COACH FOR THE BEST LC.........THIS PERSON IS A WELL EXPERIENCED AND RESPECTEDMEMBER WHO HAS SERVED ON THE SOUTH AFRICANMC. SHE IS CURRENTLY THE MCVP FOR BUSINESSDEVELOPMENT IN AIESEC GHANA..... SHE IS THEBEAUTIFUL, THE SEXY, THE BRILLIANT, THE STYLISH.........(drum rollsssss)........

N’GENE

BRIGITTE

WOOHOOOOOOO

BRIGITTE

ASAMOAH

AKA

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personality of the weekbranham anamon

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