Newsflash

As an MC member in an expansion, I finally realize how a blog can be neglected like this! In a nutshell..here's what's happened since my last post:

• Kicking off the Entrepreneurship Project! (4 TNs raised!)
• Recruitment (welcoming new members from Jordan University, Yarmouk University and the Princess Sumaya University of Technology)
• SG meetings galore - and a new addition to the SG - Dr. Musa Lozi
• Tamer's country visit!
  
• Saying goodbye to Rachel and Vincent, realizing a 3rd EP (Khalid from Irbid went to Bosnia) and welcoming our 3rd TN realization for the year - Barbara Mayer-Scholl from Germany
  
• Signing our second partnership - with Sustainability Excellence Arabia - with 2 TNs raised - 1 realized (Barbara) and extremely exciting Corporate Responsibility learning programs in the making
• Conference! Woot! Which went amazingly well thanks to Momani as Conference Manager, Lonneke (Qatar/NL) as Chair, the Pirates OC team (Ahmad, Salem, Dunia, Huda and Dana) and a supercool faci team (Abdo - Egypt, Heidi - Australia & Inna - Russia)
• Up next: January Legislative Meeting (featuring MCP Elections & MCVP Confidencing!!), welcoming our 4th TN realization - Julius from Germany, Bridging the Gap Learning Event, Entrepreneurship Networking Fair, EP selection, Launch Event...

...and while the list goes on and on, I can't believe six months have already gone by! Stay tuned to see what the Generation of Achievers in AIESEC's Official Extension to Jordan does in the next six months :)

Exciting News!

It is with great excitement that we announce that AIESEC in Jordan has just signed a Grant Agreement with USAID/SABEQ to receive funding for one year, to support AIESEC in two aspects:

• Entrepreneurship Project: Developing Jordanian Youth through Internships
• Institutional Capacity Building

This grant has come through after over 6 months of hard work, and we're extremely excited and over the moon here to be running full scale implementation of our initiatives!

We'd like to thank the MC for 2006/2007 - especially Annika Rudback and Monika Gmucova for all their work on developing the relationship with USAID, and writing and rewriting the Grant Proposal and Budgets..this wouldn't have been possible without such a fantastic start up team in Jordan!

Looking forward to an extremely exciting year :)

Oksana, Saba and Mohammad
AIESEC Jordan MC 2007/2008

Updates, updates!

Such an exciting week! :)

Major highlights - getting registration finalized (woohoo!), running a cool LDS, trying to survive on 3 hours (or less) of sleep every night, presenting our SABEQ/USAID grant application..and signing our first MoU with Jordan Exporters Association (JEA) as our Official Learning Partner!

LDS: Day One

(L-R) Lina Hamdan (Programs Manager, JEA), Mr Juma Abu Hakmeh (AIESEC Jordan SG), Mr Walid Tawil (AIESEC Jordan SG Chair), Mr Omar Abu Wishah (President, JEA), Mr Halim Abu Rahmi (VP & CEO, JEA), Mohammad Momani (MC 07/08), Saba Imtiaz (MC 07/08)

We're looking forward to an exciting few weeks as the first quarter of the year ends...and on behalf of the MC, here's wishing you all Ramadan Kareem! :)

Mabrook! 2nd TN of the year - MATCHED!

Mabrook AIESEC in Jordan!

We have a new TN matched - Erika Jauregui from Mexico will be coming to Jordan to work at EnConsult! :)

Stay tuned for more details..

MC Planning!

This weekend, you will find the MC 07/08 sitting amongst cups of coffee/tea, plates of food, wires, chargers and laptops as we embark on - MC Planning! We're somewhat halfway through Day One - and finished off X goals, our team vision & have started mapping out how AIESEC in Jordan will look like at the end of the year - so excited!

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It's Up To You

AIESEC

Starting the Exchange Experience!!!

'...adds unique value to Jordanian society by providing high quality exchange ... experiences' -- AIESEC in Jordan 2010 vision

Its realization starts today!!!

* Our Third trainee arriving in less than a month - Rachel from Oxford!
She will work with Arab Foundation for Sustainable Development

* 9 Exchange Participants will soon embark on their life-changing journey!

* And one more company (Enconsult Ltd.) has agreed to take part in our Exchange program!
Find the TN here - TN-In-JO-JO-2007-1001

Day by day moving towards the AIESEC in Jordan 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!