Summary: SAP Social Sabbatical “Uganda”
U — Unique and Unbelievable
G — Gentle with Greatness
A — Aspiring in Ambition
N — Nostalgic in Nature
D — Decorated with Dignity
A — Amazingly Adventurous
Team of 12 from different parts of the World went to Uganda, in search of dreams, fulfillment, friendship, support and to find more within!
We found much more most of which cannot be justified in words….
Our home town was the beautiful:
H — Humble in every way
O — Obliging our ways
I — Inspiring us with ideas
M — Magical with happiness
A — Appreciation with gratitude
In summary,
We spent 4 weeks trying to know each other, the country the culture, the project, and the curiosity of happiness that existed!
Many had never been to Africa and Hoima probably painted a different and unique picture. There were challenges with infrastructure, housing, food, timekeeping, project scope ++, but the team stuck in and together made a spirited effort to deliver success.
In parallel we socialized in many fun activities like cooking and presenting dinner for 50, hiking, swimming, game drives, football, waterfalls excursion, singing and dancing among several others activities.
We humbled our efforts and went to Church, school visits and conducted many field research activities speaking with alumni, employers, students, instructors, businesses and industry experts
Whilst our main focus was the project where our Goal was to work with VSO organization and ultimately support 3 Vocational Institutes with:
Marketing & Communications
Business Modelling
Management Information systems
The team of 12 split into 3 groups and aligned with 3 long-term volunteers from VSO to initially conduct research at the VTI’s, then to define and deliver a solution. Long hours and much effort meant that we spent much time training, simplifying, planning, delivering content and programs to enthuse and enable the VTIs to move forward with excellence at speed. Finalizing with sign-off’s and handover of documents and programs there was a final ceremony with many other important stakeholders on the final full day.
The result was astonishing…..the VTI’s, our partners VSO and senior members of the community were ecstatic about the huge achievement in a short period of time
Well Done SAP!!!
For a detailed summary and my personal insights please refer to next Blog in this series!
