To bring everyone up to speed, both Tahir and I were accepted for IBM's Corporate Service Corps Program (CSC). Here's a blurb from the IBM CSC website to give you a better idea of what it is!
"The Corporate Service Corps was launched in 2008 to help provide IBMers with high quality leadership development while delivering high quality problem solving for communities and organizations in emerging markets. The program empowers IBM employees as global citizens by sending groups of 10 - 15 individuals from different countries with a range of skills to an emerging market for four week community-based assignments. During the assignment, participants perform community-driven economic development projects working at the intersection of business, technology, and society."
Needless to say, we are extremely excited that we both have been given the opportunity to take part in this amazing program....while not together, we'll at least be in the same part of the world. Tahir is heading to Al-Ayn (UAE) to develop a CSR strategy, and I'll be in Tanga (Tanzania) to do some work with the Vocational Education and Training Authority!
One of the requirements as a participant in the program is to create a blog, outlining our experiences throughout the CSC journey. I'll provide a link to Tahir's blog from this site as well, but this will mainly be focussed on my experience in Tanzania for the next month or so!
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