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AIESEC in Senegal | Project Booklet 2014-2015

AIESEC in SENEGAL

Project Booklet 2014-2015


Content

Welcome .................................................... 3

AIESEC in SENEGAL .................................... 4

About Senegal ............................................ 5

Our Projects ............................................... 5

LC UCAD PROJECTS .................................... 6

Language Academy (LA) ......................... 6

Young Entrepreneurship (YES) ............... 8

Green Young Entrepreneurs (GYES) ........ 9

SWITCH ................................................ 12

Answer Solution and Knowledge (ASK) 14

LC CESAG PROJECTS ................................. 17

SAMA Project ........................................ 17

Green Health ......................................... 19

SWITCH (for children) .......................... 21

NATIONAL PROJECTS ............................... 24

AFRITOUR ............................................. 24

AIESEC in SENEGAL Exchange Manager 26

Contact Us! .............................................. 28


Welcome

Congratulations for your

decision to take a look at

this booklet. Once you

open it, you will find all

the necessary

information to have an

amazing stay in

SENEGAL.

You are about to embark

yourself upon a life

changing experience in

the most exciting

country in West Africa.

This internship will teach you about different cultures, leadership skills,

social responsibility, professional skills and ultimately more about

yourself. Choosing to take part in this internship program is the best

choice you will take in your life.

Dare to take this internship. Don’t worry so much about other things in

your life. Just put yourself out here, be the best version of yourself

and make the most of it.

We will work together to make positive impact on Senegalese society

and together we will achieve great results and fulfill great dreams.

You are amazing and we will be honored to see you soon in SENEGAL

for the ultimate life-changing experience.

Thank you for considering this opportunity and see you soon!

Welcome to SENEGAL!


AIESEC in SENEGAL

AIESEC was created in SENEGAL in 1986 and has many years of

experiences and achievements. AIESEC in SENEGAL has contributed to

youth development with many leadership opportunities given to its

members.

AIESEC in SENEGAL enables young people to have a positive impact in

all the aspects of the Senegalese society by preparing them to become

future leaders of SENEGAL. AIESEC in SENEGAL has engaged many

young people from different backgrounds and made cooperation with

NGOs and corporate sectors across the country to help them to

improve their work, reach their corporate CSR or other social purposes

by offering them the national and international talents from the

AIESEC network.

AIESEC in SENEGAL has two ever growing local committees: AIESEC

UCAD and AIESEC CESAG, as well as several extensions.


About Senegal

Our Projects

The world is facing a lot of issues and AIESEC in Senegal aims to

provide LEADERSHIP opportunities to young people so they can make

positive impact and tackle these challenges. Therefore we have

designed some amazing projects that are relevant to solve problems in

our country.


LC UCAD PROJECTS

Language Academy (LA)

The globalization of the world and it’s faster growing impose to

everybody to improve his/her skills in international languages. This

project is designed to train students in learning English especially.

The projects aims to increase students’ understanding, speaking, and

writing level in ENGLISH language and give them the opportunity to

have first-hand practice.

The interns of this project should ensure proper training for

students by being innovative and using many tools as books,

softwares, etc.

Target audience: University students and secondary school students


Interns job descriptions

Job description 1 Language Academy project will consist on training at least 20 members of AIESEC and 80 students of colleges in Dakar the capital city in English during 6 weeks or more so that they improve their English capacity.

Job description 2 Intern will have to develop training materials and method for English courses and will have to deliver the trainings to AIESEC members and in Colleges for other students such as quiz, video

Job description 3 The courses will consist in delivering 7 modules: Reading - Grammar - Pronunciation - Vocabulary - Writing - Oral – Listening that will be designed by the intern with the help of some learning partners

Job description 4 The intern should prepare the topics for discussion during oral expression. The topics cover culture, history, news, economy, sports... and they must be interactive so that each one of trainee can participate in it

Job description 5 interns will follow the participants in their use of language, evaluate them, give them exercises, and establish a strategy to encourage them to speak English. It can be for example some rewards system


Young Entrepreneurship (YES)

The major issue the world is facing now is the problem of

employability. Everywhere in the world, young people are facing

difficulties finding a job, and this has many other problems as

consequences. This project comes to fight against youth

unemployment through entrepreneurship.

The aim of the project is to train youth about entrepreneurship,

business plan and how to look for funds for their projects.

After the training, participants should come to initiate their own

projects and the partners of the projects will be able to sponsor the

projects.

Interns of the project should be able to give trainings in how to make

business plan, how to do fundraising and follow up the trainees.

Target audience: Young people



Job description 1 The objective of the YES Program is to create teams that will support organizations and young entrepreneurs on conceiving a business idea and/or develop an existing plan to put it into reality. At the end of the project each team will have a business plan that includes vision and objectives to target markets as well as marketing strategies. International students will work for organizations, and together they will act as advisory and research teams to support local students in their task of creating a micro enterprise

Job description 2 General management: creation of a strategic plan, coordination of activities and follow-up trainees

Job description 3 creating linkages between Senegalese enterprises with other local and foreign enterprises and educational institutions

Job description 4 1-Providing of know-how and good practices (brochures from other countries, web sites, etc) for implementing and displaying them in Senegal

Job description 5 2-Internal relations in the organization: team building, conflict management, training to employees on IT tools and foreign languages (when applied).

Job description 6 Financial sustainability: fund raising, proposals for new projects, supplying of templates for financial reports (budgets, balance sheet)


Green Young Entrepreneurs (GYES

Some of the biggest issues the world is facing now are concerning the

environment. As population is growing and resources are being

exploited, many factors are contributing to the destruction of the

environment. It is important and relevant now to take action to

preserve the environment and do what we can to restore it. So doing

we can insure a great future for the following generations.

The aim of this project is to train youth about the causes of the

degradation of the environment and especially the contribution of men

worldwide and locally. Then there will be conferences and seminars

of information and trainings to youth to make them conscious about

this big issue and how they can contribute to fight against this

situation in Senegal. This project will involve other youth organizations

and associations and community groups.

The purpose of the project is to fight against environmental issues

while developing the concept of green economy.

The big events of this project will be to organize sensitization days,

cleaning days and days of

reforestation where we will be

planting trees.

Interns should be involved in all

the activities of the projects and

give trainings to youth about

environmental issues on

specifics modules and topics.

Target audience: youth

associations, all young people,

every community group



Job description 1 Task 1:The intern should be allocated in one of the sub-teams of the project. There are two sub-teams: the team promotionand financing and team learning. He/she should be given differents tasks by his team leader

Job description 2 Task 2: The intern should provide training establishment of micro-project and any theme related to entrepreneurship. He also should coach the participants in establishing their micro-projects

Job description 3 Task 3: The intern should participate in the organization of all activities and big events of the project such as conferences and media appearence and broadcast.

Job description 4 Task 4: The student will participate in the organisation of all activities of the project.


SWITCH

The world is growing faster and all is about technology. The rate of

people in Africa and especially in Senegal that are aware of these new

technologies is very low. And technology becomes a requirement to

grow and improve in any other area nowadays. The SWITCH project

comes as a solution and an opportunity for youth to learn and develop

their skills in Information Technology and Communication (ICT)

area.

It aims to help young

people in Africa to

better understand and

use computers and

above all new ICT-

related practices.

These skills should be

used to build

entrepreneurship

because they are

essential requirements

for the employee. Job

creation and financial independence are all

important aspects in achieving poverty reduction in Africa. This is done

by exploiting the continent's greatest asset, its people, and by giving

them the essential skills to push its social and economic development.

Interns should have knowledge in some software usage such as

Microsoft office, SAARI, Photoshop, Vegas… and be able to give

trainings to youth according to the softwares they master.

Target audience: university and secondary students



Job description 1 The intern should provide training on software such as: Microsoft office Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Publisher and others like SAARI, Photoshop…

Job description 2 The intern will be allocated in a sub-team of the project in which he/she will have specific tasks such as promoting the project in the university, management or logistics

Job description 3 The intern should hold efficient trainings to trainees by being innovative and proactive

Job description 4 The intern should provide at the end of his/her training a video in which he/she will take stock of his/her training, sharing his/her experience in the project.


Answer Solution and Knowledge (ASK)

HIV/AIDS is one of the major diseases that kill large numbers of

people in the world and especially in Africa. About three people die

every minute in the world due to HIV/AIDS.

Many people are still ignorant about HIV and its ways of

transmission and are still contracting the disease. So it is important

for us as youth to stand and say “NO” to this situation and save our

people.

The aim of this project is to

train the trainers. So the

professional of health such

as our government and NGO

partners will train the

university students about

AIDS/HIV issues and

everything concerning the

disease. Then these trained

students will be the agent that

will train the peer educator

who will be the secondary

students that will bring the

information to their respective homes, families, friends...

Then the big events of the project will be the sensitization day and

conferences about HIV/AIDS. There will also be some demonstration

of preservative usage and tips to prevent the disease. Above all there

will be a detecting of people for them to know their serology statute.

The intern should be involved in all the activities of the project and will

be trained to become the peer educator trainer.




Job description 1

The interns will recieve trainings about HIV/AIDS and its manifestation. And then they will be tought how the disease is seen in Senegal because of the religion and traditions. Then they will be given necessary tools to train the target. They will become finally peer educators.

Job description 2 Interns shall prepare sessions for delegates. They shall be expected to further develop the content of the trainings together with our national and local partners. These sessions zill be aim to train selected high schools within Dakar to become peer educator too

Job description 3 Deliver sessions to High school students for them to gain new skills and knowledge of how to curb HIV/AIDS, live with people with the disease and give them hope in life

Job description 4 They shall also deliver Good Case Practices from their various countries and assist the delegates in adopting them as models


Job description 5 The interns should work with the project’s promotion team, create and deliver a media and PR strategy for the project. They shall also seek to the implementation of this strategy


LC CESAG PROJECTS

SAMA Project

Malaria annually kills more than 2.7million people worldwide. 80% of

cases are in sub-Saharan Africa, where mostly children under five

years and pregnant women are affected. Every 30 seconds one child

dies from malaria in the world.

African Governments have committed themselves to

fight against malaria and achieve the Millennium

Development Goals, but it’s still not sufficient. So we

must all put our hands together to get into the same

dynamic to improve the lives of many innocent

people through "SAMA PROJECT".

The purpose of the project is to raise awareness of

the disease, go to rural communities and tell them

about malaria and how to prevent it. Make fundraising and

approach international organizations to have support to buy medical

mosquito nets and share them to people for them to sleep under

them and prevent the disease, and destroy the sources of mosquitos

by spraying insecticides… There will also be

trainings to children and parents about good

hygiene habits to prevent the transmission.

Interns should be responsible of the activities

and lead them. They should raise awareness

in the population about the disease through

sensitizations and fundraise to buy mosquito

nets that will be shared in houses.

Target audience: children and pregnant

women.



Job description 1 The intern sould take part in looking for partners and NGOs which could help the project. A database of these partners will be given so that they can call and make appointments with them. They can also propose international partners that could help us in the project.

Job description 2 The intern should with the organization team and partner to deliver trainings to the target. These sessions should be proactive, interesting and enable students to acquire new skills and knowledge on how to fight against malaria.

Job description 3 The intern should be involved in all other activities related to the project: promotion.

Job description 4 The interns should work with the organization team to sentitize rural communities and people living around Dakar about Malaria, good hygien practices that can help them avoid the disease.

Job description 5 The intern should work with partners to share mosquito nets and all other materials needed to fight against Malaria


Green Health

When we look at climate

anomalies and natural disasters

that we are witnessing, taking in

account the protection of our

environment is essential in any

business idea. Thus, the project

GREEN HEALTH appears as a

program that encourages young

people to undertake but more in

the area of green economy to

create green jobs.

The aim of this project is to create green jobs by initiating projects

that will fight against environmental issues while providing

financial incomes such as recycling garbage to produce bags while

earning money or planting nursery trees that will bring incomes later.

There will be trainings about the concepts of “green economy”,

entrepreneurship and how to make a business plan. After the

training, the participants will come to initiate their own projects and

two of them that really meet the concept of “green economy” will be

sponsored by the partners of the project.

Interns should participate in all the activities

of the project, training participants about

how to create a business plan and about

green economy concept. Interns can be

trained also to the concept of green

economy.




Job description 1 Provide basic knowledge of how to protect the environment and talking about good hygien practices

Job description 2 Help children and women to gather informations about the realities of corporate social responsibility in protecting the environment.

Prepare appropriate sessions for volunteers under the supervision of the Project Coordinator and load training.

Job description 3 Give trainings about ‘green economy’ and its application by relevant example

Job description 4 Work with the learning partners to train the target about waste management and how to turn it into great buiness while protecting the environment

Job description 5 Organize practical activities such as cleaning up different areas to be selected on well-defined criteria, with volunteers who have trained there under supervision of the Project Director.


SWITCH (for children)

This project is to initiate children from an early age to the use of

computer and English learning. In our current world, computer and

English skills are important tools for children’s education.

There will be trainings in primary schools about computer usage and

English learning.

To make this possible, interns should do international fundraising to

bring some books to the children and fundraise for the project to buy

computer to equip schools to make the trainings fluent (It is not

mandatory).

The interns should be able to prepare and give trainings to the

children in an innovative way for them to master all the topics.

Target audience: children from 8 to 15



Job description 1 Teach English to students by giving basic notions of grammar and conjugation and also the essential vocabulary used in schools.

Prepare appropriate sessions responding to children needs.

Maintain regular contact with the Interns Manager.

Take part in the searching of NGO's and schools.

Job description 2 Use interactive and fun methods to teach basic tools and some programs such as Paint, Word, Excel, Powerpoint to children.

Job description 3 We encoureage interns to propose any other programs that could be interesting and useful to children and participate to any activities related to the project.

Job description 4 Meet the schools and NGO's for the training of volunteers and ensure a good promotion of the project. It will also create a space in schools to properly teach courses.

Job description 5 Meeting with the children and provide English language support, community information and a general understanding of his/her culture. Intern could make a presentation of his/her country and culture.


Job description 6 Can do international fundraising partners to equip schools that do not have hardware in computer. A list of potential partners that intern must contact will be given.


NATIONAL PROJECTS

AFRITOUR

This project aims to showcase the touristic aspect of SENEGAL.

According to the history, Senegal is one of the rare countries that stills

have the buildings and vestiges of colonization time and the country

has many touristic sites.

The interns of this project will be going one week in each region of the

country from the south to the north. They will do workcamps in

various places to contribute to local community development, while

discovering the sites and know more about the country.

Target audience: students



Job description 1 The interns will have to discover different touristic sites of Senegal going from region to region

Job description 2 While visiting the regions , interns should do work camp to help communitities

Job description 3 Interns should take pictures and videos to showcase Senegal

Job description 4 Interns will work with some partner NGOs to

Job description 5 Interns will be in charge of holding a cmpetiton in which members will bring pictures and videos then the interns will chose the winner

Job description 6 The interns zill do media parution and broadcasting


AIESEC in SENEGAL Exchange Manager

This project is really sweet for anyone who has backgrounds in

marketing and selling. The EP will be working with the National

selling team and with the MCVP OGX, MCVP IGIP or MCVP IGCDP

according to his/her will.

The purpose of this project is to sell our programs to companies,

NGOs… The intern will be going on the field to sell either GCDP or GIP

to stakeholders.

This opportunity is more like a CEEDership.


Job description 1 Zork with the MCVP iGCDP and MaC to ensure good promotion of the entity on tyhe social networks

Job description 2 Develop strategies to coach the LCs in other to give them necessary tools to prepare the upcoming fish peak

Job description 3 work directly with the national asales team in order to raise more NGOs and various stakeholders

Job description 4 Making a weekly review of the department activities and provide ne strategies for its development

Job description 5 Propose any other ideas and strategies for the growth of iGCDP in AIESEC in Senegal


Check out these links:

Video about AIESEC Exchange in Senegal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFit1Mqi3z0

AIESEC in Senegal Projects:

http://goo.gl/7zCHRn

AIESEC in Senegal on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/aiesec-senegal?trk=top_nav_home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFit1Mqi3z0




Contact Us!

Bright Mlaano Etiko

National Vice-President Incoming Global Community Development Program

(+221 76 533 38 28) | [email protected]

AIESEC in Senegal

Ouest Foire, Cité Khandar Villa N° 17, Dakar

BP: 45796 Dakar-Fann

Dakar | SENEGAL

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