Third Wave!

Yo yo yo everyone !!

So after a lot of hard work the Project Team managed to raise sessions with schools and UPM itself but it will not happen because the uni closed down for a week due to a couple of swine flu cases !

Nooooo !!!

But the trainees and the OC still have faith and we're getting ready to make the best workshop on the 7th of August in a school near the uni, we will let you know how it goes !!

Hope next time we'll tell you more exciting things !

Much love

The HOPE team

25 July 2009

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Second Wave!

Dear visitors !

Here comes the second post of the volunteers blog !!

We've had a very busy start of the week, spending our entire monday cold calling schools to arrange meetings and dates for our workshop, which is approved by the Higher Ministry of Education and sponsored by the Standard Chartered Bank (yep, we are a BIG DEAL).

After some succesful and less succesful calls, we managed to raise a meeting for this week with a school. We were really proud of this first achievement when we found out at the meeting tonight that this school is the one farthest away from town! One-hour drive apparently! Ouch! Hopefully we'll get a friendly AIESECer to get us there (AIESECers if you are reading this: HINT-HINT).

Tomorrow morning me, our Boss Elaine, Ripple and this other friendly girl from AIESEC are going to three different schools near UPM to arrange meetings and dates to run the workshop. Wish us luck !!

So this is all for today. We'll keep you updated !

Bettina and the HOPE team. xx

18 July 2009

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First Wave !

Dear visitors !

The fabulous and fresh new team of international interns from Korea, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and the UK are proud to welcome you the HOPE Project for the months of July and August 08-09 !!!

We have been adapting to Malaysian lifestyle and very much enjoying the weather, the food and the smiley locals! Last week was our first training by other international students who have been running workshops on HIV/AIDS before us. They were really friendly and their training was very informative and useful as they managed to keep it informal but relevant. We also met two Dutch Ambassadors, Rutger and Nard, who are awesome. They gave us training on personal goal-setting and marketing.

Yesterday was another big day for us as we had our first meeting with everyone split into different groups to contact the schools. We’ve got a massive list of more than 200 schools!! The plan is to get in touch with as many of them as possible between now and Monday, when we’ll meet up again.

We will keep you updated on our progress.

Watch this space.

Much HOPEfull love

15 July 2009

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