Showing posts with label #CTI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #CTI. Show all posts

Saturday, May 30, 2015

World Water Day 2015. The big event had finally arrived !!!

The event was rescheduled two days prior to the event and due to severe lack of time, the hostesses did not have their World Water Uniform. I was told that traditionally, the CWA proposes that in such cases, the hostesses have to dress in a sari. I was delighted to hear that despite the fact that I was in charge of uniforms and we had already selected some nice and classy designs. 

I helped to place CWA's water drop  mascot in front of the door and helped to organize the registration table. Once done, my colleague Veni and I were asked to greet the guests. After a while, another colleague asked one of us to greet the guests at the front. Veni volunteered and stayed there for about 20 to 30 mins. She returned along with the minister and I thought, '' I missed such a great chance to greet the minister''. After the opening ceremony, we were asked to accompany the guests for their tea break. I guided the guests and the university students back into the hall as the seminar was about to start. At the end of the event, we ensured that all the guests had their lunch before serving ourselves. 

The feedback from the CWA's employees about the event was fair enough. The event was not open to the public like it is usually done and not all employees of the CWA were invited which made it even more weird. I wished that this grand event could have occurred the way I planned it with all the hard work behind that. Sometimes being too excited about something can bring some surprises. I realized that this event was such an important responsibility and I executed everything that the team leader told me to do yet circumstances can play you bad. A few days before the event, everyone would be telling me, ''Your big day is finally near''. Everyone linked me with this event. Well challenges are always a way to pave our way to success.  

Regards from the World Water Day girl, 
Jesina

Monday, May 25, 2015

All good things must come to an...end



My feeling? A mixture! Both happy, when I stepped back and see the beautiful path I made with PILS and nostalgic, when I think of all the good times I shared with these people who entered my life when I started the internship. 

A great experience!
Through these working days at PILS, I learnt important things about PR, some of them are: the importance of respecting ethics specially in this organization, the need to know how to tackle things even if they have not been planned before, not be afraid to talk with people during prevention session, be confident and believe in myself even if it was the first time I organized a photo session with people I don’t really know. It has been a great experience working with this NGO, and having a supervisor who trust in my capacities, really helped me to be more confident about myself.

What it brought to my personal life.
What I have experienced during these past months, cannot be called “internship” because it was really more than that! It was a human experience, because apart the PR knowledge, spending time in this organization has helped me to clear out all the misconceptions that the society showed me about HIV & AIDS. It changed my way of viewing people living with HIV, and developed a deep love for those rejected people of the society. Being at this NGO, made me remember my love for social work and also made me realize the great difference it will do if everybody come together and fight against this virus. Personally, I don’t want to work for money, what I want, is to do something which brings happiness to my life (even if it means having a minimum salary). What counts the most for me, is doing things with great love and never by force, and being at PILS, brought so much happiness in my life.

New beginning
Today, I am more confident about what I want to do in life. This experience will always remain in my heart and also, all those wonderful people I met there. I did not expect how much these people could brought to my little life and I can say that they all contributed to make this experience a beautiful one! It might be the end, but deep inside, I know that it is a new beginning towards something great!

I hope that your internship has been a good experience too and thank you for taking time reading my post.


Gaelle.