Be prepared for the last on-site impressions from my Social Sabbatical in Buenos Aires. Any articles after that will be retrospectives.
Yesterday on Thursday, we delivered the final presentation at Puerta 18. But before that, we had a team task to solve: Think about and organize a present for our project assistant Juami! Only a couple of days ago, he told us how he picked up his dog - it was a street dog, and he took him into his flat. Since then, Iván is part of Juami's life. So we thought about buying something for Iván. It is a wooden tray, holding to bowls for food and water. We wrote "Thank you" in several languages on it, wrapped it in Puerta 18-purple paper and then gave it to Juami. I suppose, we really were suprising him!
We literally polished the slides until the last minute - and then had to be shorter than expected, but we think, we got across the most important points. Anyway, for Puerta 18, no breaking news was given, we worked closely together and had regular reviews. We were glad to have José Cáceres, SAP CSR Director for Latin América y del Caribe, with us for the presentation, as well as Carolina Gowland from PYXERA, as well as Cecilia Quiñones from SAP.
After our presentation, the Puerta 18 kids said goodbye to us. First, we played a game - actually, it was the Argentinean version of
Kunterbunt or
Dobble/Spot It. They also presented some animations that they had done during the last few weeks, such as animations of super-powers - vanishing in thin air and jumping into the picture a meter away, for example. We received a special edition of a 3D-printed item - which I can't explain right now, because I am missing the English words... (I should post pictures after returning home!)
Thank you so much, Puerta 18 to all the kids and the great staff!!!
Today, all Social Sabbatical participants came together once more at SAP - both the SAP employees and the social partners. Short panel discussions reflected on the experience, and every team was able to talk about what they had delivered. Below, you find pictures of all the teams (sorry, I do not have photos with all team members on it together for all teams!).
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| Juami receiving his present |
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| Juami shooting scenes for the video - he created a pseudo documentary that was shown today at the final event at SAP. Once he uploaded it, I will share the link! |
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| From left to right: Janice, José, Carolina and Susana during the final presentation |
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| Puerta 18: Susana from the staff, Enrique from the kids |
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| Team Enseñá por Argentina |
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| Team Junior Achievement (my apologies to project assistant Lupi - I didn't get you in the picture!) |
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| Carolina from PYXERA in the audience |
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| Team Puerta 18 - thanks to Koert Breebaart for taking a series of pictures from our panel! |
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| Team Socialab - photo 1 |
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| Team Socialab - photo 2 |
