AIESEC benue newsletter · AIESEC gives the youth that doorway to opportunities, just so more and more young people get the same chances and opportunities as we did and we don't care

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AIESEC BENUE APRIL/MAY NEWSLETTER

CONTENT

Ø NATIONAL CONGRESS

Ø AIESEC BENUE DINNER

Ø PROJECT EFIKO


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NATIONAL CONGRESS

“NOTHING IS MORE POWERFUL THAN AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME”-‐ VICTOR HUGO.

The month of April came with the rains, and with the new season comes also a new team to carry the AIESEC BENUE to the next step. The months came with interesting events gear AIESEC BENUE to move forward as well as AIESEC NIGERIA.

In the AIESEC Nigeria calendar, this is the first conference amongst 3 which happen in the year. The National Congress (NC) was held in the capital city of Abuja. This conference is a planning and strategizing conference for AIESEC NIGERIA and the direction it wants to follow. At the conference it marks the end of a Member Committee (MC) tenure and the start of a new one.

The conference whose duration was from the 16th to 21st Of April 2013 AIESEC Nigeria held it Y2b (youth 2Buisness) seminar tagged "How can youth innovation drive business solutions?" Which was graced with the presence of the General Electric, Career solutions, SMS factory, Price Water house Coopers (PWC) etc, and a host of other companies too numerous to mention.

The event ended with a dinner/ award night. Various Local committees were awarded for their roles in the growth of AIESEC Nigeria. Big thanks to you the Organizing Committee President-‐ James Terna Akume, from AIESEC ABUJA, for making a great conference.


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Some pictures of the Benue delegates at the NC in Abuja.


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AIESEC BENUE DINNER

In the month of May, AIESEC Benue held its first dinner to end the year of work. The out going Local Committee President (LCP) ushers in the new team for the year. On behalf of his team and his tenure, he gave his out-‐going speech titled “If you are still wondering why AIESEC: Picture this: You have an organization, with over 86,000 employees in over a 114 countries that doesn't retain the management employees for more than a year.

Each of these 114 countries functions with almost complete autonomy, with localized strategies, very different projects running and a brand new positioning strategy almost every year. Furthermore, they run on individuality that is based on enthusiasm, dedication and oddly a rebellious attitude rather than a formal work system. If a large corporation were to have such a system, it would turn out to be nightmarish and yet there is an organization that follows that system and still remains the largest and the most important organization of its kind. It’s called AIESEC.

Good evening, my name Oga Godwin I am 26 years old, I am the outgoing CEO of AIESEC BENUE and I am here to speak about how we prepare and support the leaders of the future.64 years ago, shortly after the 2nd World War, 7 young students decided to start a student organization to promote the idea of exchange between young people in countries torn apart by war. Today we have 86,000 students from 114 countries in all inhabited continents still living and working for the same mission: to create a sense of cultural sensitivity, responsibility and harmony among the youth; to work for peace and fulfillment of humankind’s potential.

As a young person, as an AIESECer, I have had the privilege to travel to different places around the world; everywhere the people I have met, the stories that I have heard are nothing but intensely inspirational. I see that spirit in members of AIESEC who take English classes just so that they can communicate with the rest of the AIESEC network. I have seen that spirit in AIESEC members that commit to cycling or walking long distances just to get to an internet café so that they can access our online system. I have seen it in members who study, work small jobs to support themselves and find time to work with AIESEC just to give themselves a chance to go places they could not have imagined before. In a world where young people are increasingly judging each other by their profiles on social media or what smartphone you carry, I feel lucky and honored to have met such people who inspire me to be a better person.

When in AIESEC, we care a lot more about dignity, humility and how hard we work for something matters a lot more than how much money we make. A lot of people might call us crazy for doing so, but for us helping build a world without borders one brick at a time is a lot more important and every member of AIESEC is contributing to this in some way or the other.


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• How many people have you met who are in their early 20's leading a team from diverse backgrounds and countries?

• How many of your young employees have promoted awareness for building better schools in the rural areas of a foreign country or any other activity to develop or support society?

• How many young employees do you have who are ready to step out of their comfort zone and go to another country to develop your organization and are not even 25 yet?

AIESEC is a space for young people to fail, learn and excel. When does the real world gives us that chance? AIESEC gives the youth that doorway to opportunities, just so more and more young people get the same chances and opportunities as we did and we don't care what country that person comes from, we don't care about what is the person's gender or ethnic background.

Why should all this be important to you?

AIESEC is the one platform to engage and develop every young person in the world. Just imagine the kind of values and ethics that a young person can develop and the experiences he or she can live through this platform. If ever, you are to get a CV of a former or current member of AIESEC, give it a second look, because you are probably looking at a person who has had a unique life experience that has given them the ability to face work environments, however diverse they might be without any problem.

We are people who are willing prioritize improving the impact of the organization we work for and we are always learning. For those of you who expected our secret recipe for leadership – my apologies…we don't really have a secret recipe to develop and support the leaders of tomorrow. It’s just simple hard work, practice and most importantly having the passion for what we do.

That Passion, which is the perfect mix of ego, and self-delusion that makes us crazy enough to believe that we can change the world generation after generation.

AIESEC doesn't believe in waiting for a better future. We create a better now.

Thank you."

The evening was fun filled as we had guests from other Local Committees (LCs), who came to congratulate AIESEC BENUE for a job well done. Awards and recognition were given to those individuals that helped out in the success. As in almost all AIESEC gatherings, it will not be complete if we do not share in the joy of participation in Roll Calls. As the event came to an end, the new LCP gives her closing remarks and promises to do her best to move AIESEC BENUE forward.


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Some pictures of the AIESEC BENUE dinner.


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Efiko?

is an educational mobile app that inspires self-‐learning by engaging students to take charge of their own learning and celebrate their successes. This is achieved through randomized timed quizzes, scoring and ranking with a leader-‐board, social integration as well as geographical mapping. Key features include:

Topical based learning: Students learn as they are taught according to the National Curriculum.

Standardized content: This is especially important for Students in Schools with a shortage of Teachers for certain subjects.

Instant scoring and ranking with a leader-‐board: Students are challenged to do better when they see their current scores and ranks as well as that of their peers.

Social based learning: Peer-‐to-‐peer engagement makes learning fun for students. Students can challenge each other on social media to become top student for different subjects.

Incentives: in form of rewarding high performing students on the platform.

To ensure that this sensational mind blowing educational one in a million mobile app gets to the phones of the nations secondary school students, AIESEC Nigeria is currently running an awareness program through its 14 Local committees on the benefits of this app, and AIESEC Benue has reached out to quite a number of schools.


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