Following up on my previous post on Do a Good Turn everyday – Boy Scouts slogan, as of today – 15/09/2009, BNZ has received 331 suggestions for community service. This is part of the ‘Closed For Good’ initiative by Bank of New Zealand (BNZ), where all their 5000 or so staff will take a day off to do community service.
Click here to view these suggestions.
Shaheen Tejani is one of the very few who got an early opportunity to complete her Time and Knowledge Nazrana* with Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance (AKAM) and in this post – My year of living livelihoods she reflects on the completion of her TKN project.
In her post she has described the objective of the project, which was “expanding the capacity of its employees to alleviate poverty, the AKAM management team commissioned a concept paper in June 2008“…
…what her responsibilities were: “conducting research to discover how best to inspire, motivate and train AKAM’s employees so that they could work as high performing teams with a common vision and culture of innovation and excellence“…
…and tasks she carried out which allowed her to continue working on Phase II of the project and serve the AKAM for almost a year.
As a result of this proejct:
The AKAM Training Academy is now a formal project of AKAM. In the first six months of 2009 the Academy has delivered the Development Ethics course in Syria, Tajikistan, Egypt, West Africa and Madagascar. The Academy has also started building local capacity with regional trainer workshops resulting in 20 new certified trainers, ready to take this experience to all their employees. By the end of its first year all 13 countries will have delivered this critical learning opportunity to every single employee. TKN is a key factor, translation and course development of the next course, Loan Officer 100, is being done by other TKN volunteers across the world. A full programme leading to a certificate in Microfinance is now being planned along with an online knowledge base for self improvement courses.
*Time and Knowledge Nazrana is a voluntary commitment of ones ‘time and skills‘ to Aga Khan Development Network as a gift to The Aga Khan during the completion of his 50 years of Ismaili Imamat.
As a boy scout, one is supposed to do a good turn everyday. Whether big or small, but a scout should make sure to do at least one good turn daily. A Good Turn is more than simple good manners. It is a special act of kindness (MacScouter.com)
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A Good Turn is a voluntary act of helping someone. It could be a small thoughful act like, helping someone cross a road, or helping a fellow scout with something, or removing broken glass off the street.
Or there could be bigger Good Turn like, involving yourself in community service. And here is an opportunity for one to get involved in something like this…
Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) is running a campaign called Closed for Good, that is they will be closed on 4 November, 2009 and all their 5000 or so staff will be participating in some sort of community service. They will be working in teams in various regions and on various projects. Right now they are looking for ideas from people of New Zealand to suggest them community projects which they can carry out or get involved in for a day.
So if you have any such suggestion then make your submission over here. You may also follow @closedforgood on Twitter for regular updates.
Participating in this service will help you fulfill your Good Turn allocation for that day.
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