The power of mentoring

Who has never been in a situation where he or she needed advises to feel that they can grow and achieve their best potential? Who never wanted advises to create a better work environment where risks can be taken and objectives fulfilled?

The people who grow and overcome these hurdles are usually the ones who regularly put things into perspective and always question themselves to ultimately improve. In order to find the answers to many questions young professionals may have, the Rotaract Club of Jumeirah recently created a mentoring program.

Mentoring is a relationship in which an experienced person (mentor) assists another (mentee) in developing specific skills and knowledge that will enhance the less-experienced person’s professional and personal growth.

With the help of our well-established Rotarians, the club aims to share knowledge but also; create a unique relationship based on trust and senior guidance between Rotarians and Rotaractors. Through this type of program, mentees gain invaluable insight beyond their own education and experience.

If you’d like to receive more information on our mentoring program, please send an email to pr@rotaractjumeirah.org

“Be selfish, go help someone”, Bobby Sager and social entrepreneurship

Imagine if you were a millionaire and you suddenly decide that instead of buying 5 houses in premium areas or 10 luxury cars, you’ll go on the road with your family in the most devastated places in the planet to simply help and offer hope. This dream and pure desire to offer a sustainable solution and improve the life of people who were less fortunate, was achieved by the Bobby Sager family.

The Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Roadshow began in 2000 when the family made a commitment to travel the world with the hope that they can instigate the efforts of leaders. Since then, Bobby Sager and his family spend 10 months a year on the road and invested on entrepreneurial projects that hold people responsible and give them back a strong sense of honour and achievement.

Bobby Sager is known as an extremely successful entrepreneur, philanthropist, author, photographer and traveller who met touching and powerful public figures such as the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton or Sting.

His passion for sharing and strong sense of philanthropy pushed Bobby Sager to countries like Congo where he helped a rehabilitation centre for child soldiers. He launched a programme in Rwanda were women from different ethnicity partnered in a business project in spite of the difficult past history.

Bobby Sager also brings hope everywhere he goes. Bobby has taken photographs showing the transcendent power of hope in the eyes of children he met in war-torn countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and Palestine. These images have been viewed by over 4 million people around the world.

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For Bobby, being on the ground and empowering leaders in these countries – the Sagers think of leaders as people who have the ability to impact many others and multiply this positive effect – offer them amazing life moments full of learning, feeling and accomplishing. This is the main message behind “Be selfish, go help someone”.

Cultural Mapping & Navigation

Hi There,

It’s been some time since I haven’t blogged. The reason is that our Club has been working on so many exciting projects – which you will hear about soon – that we’ve just been swamped... Which is always good.

We’ve recently received a short training or let’s call it test called Cultural Mapping & Navigation (CMN). So, what is that? Basically, this program was developed to assist people and organizations to deal more effectively with their Inter-Cultural realities through their Inter-Cultural Intelligence.

This means... that CMN program is brilliant if you’re looking for developing competencies or just reflecting on yourself.

Leaving in Dubai with so much nationalities around, I felt that this program was just amazing and so objective that it pushes me to question yourself and improve. It’s also great if you’re looking for developing leadership skills or looking at how you stand in regards to leadership; assessing the type of emotional intelligence you have or simply seeing how your team alignment.
If you’re curious to know more about this program, just visit https://www.knowledgeworkx.com

The joy of being part of Rotary international network

Have you ever been to a country where you were introduced to people via email, who were so kind enough to greet and welcome you, as if you were part of their family? A network where you know without meeting these people that you share the same values, visions of life and desire to help.

This is in a nutshell how it feels when you are part of the Rotary family. If I take my personal example, I’m travelling tomorrow to Brazil which is the complete unknown. Through the Rotary network, I managed to get in touch with Rotaractors based in Rio de Janeiro who generously proposed to take care of me. Isn’t it brilliant?

Other Rotaractors travelling to Kazakhstan, Kenya or Asia received the same very warm welcome and desire to learn about the country we are representing and our activities over here.

If you’d like to also be part of the Rotaract network, don’t hesitate to email us on pr@rotaractjumeirah.org or sign up for our newsletter to keep up on what we do!

Amazing time at Senses School for children with special needs

What a wonderful morning at Senses School for children with special needs!

After being closed for two weeks due to maintenance, the centre needed a little bit of help to ensure that it was operational for the “big day” on Sunday...

An enormous thank you to the team of volunteers so willing to help and get to know Senses’ residents. It was so rewarding to see the children smiling and enjoying their time with the activities that we put together for them. It was such a pleasure to feel the satisfaction of having touched the hearts of children in need of that smile.

The volunteers had the chance to interact with the kids through different painting activities. Our musician who came all the way to entertain the kids got hijacked by the residents who wanted to play the guitar rather than simply listen. I’m sure that this moment spent at Senses school provided food for thoughts to all our volunteers and gave us also other ideas to implement with residents, to make sure that they try different activities and most of all, feel happy!

End Polio Now, We are “This Close”

As the World Polio Day scheduled on October 24 is approaching, the Rotary Club is working hard to raise awareness and funds to eradicate polio.

It’s been 25 years that Rotary works closely with their partners to eradicate Polio. We are reaching now a historical moment where we’re 1% away from the end of polio forever. This achievement shows the tremendous progress that have been made to eradicate this tenacious disease for one and for all.

If you want to help at your level, Rotary is having a fund raising campaign where all the funds will be given to Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support immunization campaign in developing countries where polio continues to infect and paralyse children.

Also, generate awareness and create the buzz by telling the world about Rotary’s achievements. Please visit our website http://www.thisclose.net/ and participate in our fun online campaign.

An eye on the Global Agenda

Does anyone have an idea of what is the Summit on the Global Agenda, organised with the World Economic Forum in the UAE for the past four years?

I have the answer! The Summit on the Global Agenda is an annual global intellectual brainstorming that brings together worldwide experts. The participants brainstorm in small groups around topics impacting on civil society, business, academia and government.

The participants were polled to determine which global challenges are the most important to address; and their responses were very interesting. It seems that these global challenges revolve around:
1. Resource scarcity and demographic change
2. Digital governance and managing complex systems
3. Global rebalancing and economic reform
4. Inclusive growth and employment creation
5. Global and regional governance

Living in an “emerging” country, bearing in mind the way the world is rapidly changing and seeing a total power shift from traditional developing countries to emerging economies, what would you consider a global challenge?

I think that if you were living in China, your challenges will be resource scarcity and demographic change. But we can also include growth and employment creation. India is facing the same issues that China has and Europe is finding difficulties to maintain or strengthen a global or regional governance. Which means that we leave in a world where we are all interlinked and inter-dependent. Which also show that my issues, are now increasingly becoming your issues to a certain extent. Don’t you think so?

Let us know your thoughts on that.