Final 12 months in June, we launched the GfK Business College, an thrilling initiative geared toward onboarding and refreshing our client-facing new joiners’ important business information and abilities. However we wished to take it a step additional. That is why we partnered with an unimaginable international learning-focused charity known as “Faculty in a Bag,” which operates in 56 nations worldwide. Right this moment, I need to share the wonderful affect we have created because the program’s inception, empowering younger minds and making a distinction by means of the GfK Business College and Faculty in a Bag charity partnership.
Making a Distinction: How GfK’s Business College Offers Again to Deprived Kids
At GfK, we have all the time been dedicated to offering studying alternatives for all. So, as an alternative of giving the standard disposable items to our Business College individuals, we determined to do one thing extra significant. We got here up with a singular concept that not solely rewards our individuals but additionally advantages others in want.
In keeping with our philosophy, for each participant who goes by means of the Business College program, GfK donates to the charity Faculty in a Bag. Based by Luke Simon in 2005, after he misplaced his brother within the Boxing Day tsunami, the charity holds a particular connection to our firm. In 2004, we tragically misplaced a board member within the tsunami and subsequently raised funds for the area people. Faculty in a Bag has been making a major distinction by delivering over 142,000 baggage to deprived kids in 56 nations worldwide.
Sustainability and Training: GfK and Faculty in a Bag Repurpose Waste for a Better Trigger
What’s inside these baggage, you ask? Every bag is rigorously crammed with important gadgets that allow these kids to jot down, draw, coloration, calculate, categorical themselves, and even get pleasure from a meal. It is all about creating an setting the place they will study and thrive.
The primary beneficiaries of the Faculty in a Bag initiative had been 200 kids attending Ayikuma Memorial M.A. Fundamental Faculty in Balagonor, Ghana. However our help continues past there. In Ghana, Faculty in a Bag collaborated with one other native companion known as Trashy Baggage. This inspiring group produces baggage from discarded plastic waste, using over 40 locals to gather, clear, and sew the plastic trash into modern, useful baggage and different merchandise.
Since then, we have continued to make a distinction. The subsequent batch of 100 GfK baggage has been distributed to high school kids within the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with one other 100 baggage quickly to make their strategy to the Philippines. As the newest wave of our Business College program involves an in depth, we’re thrilled to announce that GfK will fund a further 203 baggage for recipients in Mongolia.
Empowering Younger Minds for a Brighter Future
Collectively, we empower younger minds and supply them with the instruments they should succeed. Our collaboration with Faculty in a Bag not solely helps schooling but additionally creates sustainable options by repurposing waste. It is a testomony to GfK’s dedication to positively impacting the world round us.
So, let’s proceed this unimaginable journey collectively. By way of the GfK Business College, we’re shaping not solely the way forward for our firm but additionally the lives of youngsters who deserve an opportunity to study and develop. Keep tuned for extra inspiring tales and updates as we work hand in hand with Faculty in a Bag to make a distinction, one bag at a time.
We may be the shapers of tomorrow, collectively.
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