INCREDIBLE INDIA

Mohamed Arby Ghemari, 23 years, shares his AIESEC experience with us.

In June 2010 I boarded a flight to India without knowing what would meet me on the other side. I spent four months interning as a linguistic consultant at Jain Heritage International (JGI), a Cambridge School in Hyderabad.

Working at Jain Heritage International is one of the best working experiences I ever had.
I really enjoyed every single day working with my students who are sociable, cheerful, smart and so Talkative!!

At work, I was feeding my curiosity, my desire to learn, and my analytical skills. My students were so eager to learn about foreign cultures. Having melting pot classrooms helped me too because I also discovered the Korean and Chinese cultures. My Korean students who were living in Hyderabad for a while helped me understand more the Indian Culture.

I'm really Thankful to all the teachers and especially to Principal MAM who welcomed me like I Was a member of JGI's family and who were always ready to help me. My Indian colleagues showed me incredibly warm hospitality by welcoming me into their homes. Their lives were simple, but they were really generous with me, even though I had no way to repay them.
I never thought that I'll have such an amazing experience and unforgettable moments in an incredible country as India. How amazing is the culture and the spirit of these people!! ! !

One of the greatest things in this experience is the fact of meeting other trainees from all over the world and sharing with them my experience. I had such a great time with my flatmates and the other trainees: we had parties every week, trips almost every weekend. I lived in a house with six other international trainees. We became a multicultural family. We learned to compromise when there was conflict, and to support each other when we were having difficulties understanding our new jobs and our new culture. We would trade off cooking our national dishes, which allowed me to practice the skills I learned during my courses at the culinary school for restaurant management in Tunis. I also had the chance to visit a lot of places with my friends, discovering the beauty of India and its breathtaking monuments and landscapes such as Taj Mahal in Agra, Golden Temple in Amritsar, Hawa Mahal in Jaipur. It’s really amazing to see how from a state to another people change. We can find a different culture, a different language and a different religion, but we’re still in the same country “India“.

I still remember myself standing in front of the Taj mahal, so white and so peaceful and for me, being there in front of it, is one of the best experiences I had in my life, because I never thought I would make it that far ; and I made it thanks to AIESEC. I met new people who became really good friends and I discovered such an unbelievable country. So if you have the chance to go to India you’ll see that for once the word “WOW “will make sense.

I have been a member of AIESEC which is an international student leadership organisation for one year. Returning to Tunisia after my internship I decided to help other students have a chance to experience what I did, that they can live the AIESEC experience. I took a position as the Outgoing Exchange Coordinator inside my local Committee. My job is to find international internships for Tunisian students and supervise the team that works with me.

Hyderabad, the city I was living in, was hosting this last summer the International Congress of AIESEC which was awesome specially the Global Village. The fact of meeting more than 600 Delegates from all over the world was simply astonishing. Every local Committee was managing its own booth where we tasted swiss Cheese, Belgium Chocolate and traditional Chinese Biscuits. I think that the International Congress is one of the most important events in the life of an AIESEC member and I think that I was lucky to be there when India was hosting It.

For the future Exchange participants, visiting India would be such an incredible eye opening and also an adventurous experience. It would make you awake of the daring aspects of your personality, the ones you had no idea existed. The Indian’s spirit will make you more open and more sincere, while the different Indian festivals will give you a chance and an excuse to have fun and to do juvenile things you could never do back home.

Like me you’ll get to see a lot of breathtaking, historically significant places situated in unrealistically magnificent landscapes and the joy they give you will be hard to take in. You will feel as if your feet are off the ground. However, in order to truly understand the place, you have to be willing to get out of your comfort zone, and eventually you will come to love it.

My time in India helped me to realize that I am passionate about people, new cultures, and working with children who are the future generation of their country. It also opened my eyes to see how things in my own country could change to give our youth a broader view of the world and give them a better chance in a world that is becoming more and more globalized.

I'll have India always in my heart as the first Asian country I have visited.

Hope that my experience will inspire, motivate and encourage other people to live the AIESEC experience which I promise will be unbelievable and incredibly fabulous.

Best Regards

Ghemari Med Arby (TUNISIA)

Tunisia, paradise of the French Offshore

Tunisian revolution is neither digital nor jasmine, it is real, born from the pain and blood of the martyrs. Certainly, ICT has been important, but Beyond the virtual, we deplore the loss of life, and offer our sincere condolences to the families of victims.

At this stage of events, I think the worst is behind us.In Tunisia, there is neither Shia nor Christians nor Kurds, the risk of civil war is zero. The Tunisians have a sense of responsibility, and have learned to turn a crisis into an opportunity, which would be this time, intimately linked to IT development, computer services and nearshore in order to generate a significant number of jobs for graduates.

To better understand the Tunisian context, I would pick up the threads of its modern and prestigious history. Tunisia was the first Arab country to abolish slavery and polygamy, to adopt a constitution, to give the right of vote to women, and now the first country whose people had courageously taken their destiny in hand to create conditions to build the first real democracy in the Arab world [manifesto for a new start in Tunisia].

Thus, the Tunisian economy presents with green indicators, which will be strengthened by these three major changes in public space:

1 - The newfound freedom and transparency anchored will quickly enable Tunisia to enjoy an excellent business climate in order to drain the ideas and facilitate the establishment of multinationals who fled the racket organized by the former regime .

2 - The release of the locks on the administration of single party (and its transformation into Service Oriented Administration) will improve the quality of services to citizens and economic agents, and maintain the most competitive costs in the Euro- Mediterranean.Several large sites blocked by the vultures of the Ben Ali clan will be relaunched (CNAM Map, National Biometric Map, SIHR, rebuild of the Information System of CNSS, Trade Register ...), and will boost the internal market for IT services.

3 - The ownership by the people of his business by setting up a Citizen Oriented Government, will read and understand the studies agree on the fact that IT services and nearshore are a strategic development in Tunisia's economy and offer great potential for creating jobs for graduates.

Tunisia has no oil, but has educated youth and graduated with a quality level comparable to that of Western Europe with 60 000 new multilingual graduates per year (61% women), more than 20 000 engineers and scientists (including over 9,500 IT graduates) for a population of 10 million.

The new Tunisia will benefit from offshoring industry already flourishing with 25,000 posts.Among firms already operating in Tunisia: ADP, Sagem, Orange, STMicroelectronics, Altcatel, LG, Teleperformance, Fidelity / HRAccess, Sungard, Cisco / GlTrade, HP, Stream, Altran, Linedata, Cassiopae, Aedian, etc...Tunisian Offshoring has an excellent track record and is in the register of the best cost.

Remember that Europe is just emerging from its crisis and has great potential for offshore: it represents only 4.8% of the market for software and services in France (10 to 15% goes towards the Maghreb , according to the firm CAP), against 20% in Great Britain and the United States.

With 26% French speakers among population, according to the International Organisation of Francophonie (compared to 13% in Morocco, 8% in Romania and 1% in Egypt), Tunisia is fastly becoming the new Paradise of Francophone Offshore (centers of development services, TMA, outsourcing, Business Process Outsourcing BPO...).

Tunisian revolution offers Europe, wich has been partisan of the Ben Ali politic for a long time, and who confused diplomacy and abetting, the opportunity to redeem themselves by supporting the freedom of Tunisian people, and invest heavily in a "useful neashore" beyond simple call centers with very low added value.

Thus, beyond the negative impact of the crisis, some call centers (whose consequences are less serious than a flood of the Seine would have generated on the Paris economy), the already flourishing nearshore Tunisian industry will be reinforced in the register of added value to offer more jobs to graduates in Tunisia.With a predominantly educated and prospects for introduction of a Citizen Oriented Government, Tunisia is certainly the new Paradise of French offshore.

Khaled Ben Driss - Technical director, Oxia.

[Source: www.journaldunet.com ]

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Get Ready 2010

For three days, over 500 Tunisian AIESECers were attending the second National conference of AIESEC in Tunisia for this year and the first for the Newbies which is "Get Ready 2010" that was hosted in the Monastir ( a Tunisian City ) the 5th, 6th and 7th of November.

Notice that the "Get Ready" is the biggest AIESEC Conference in the Middle East and North Africa region and one of the most important the fact that it attracts more and more foreign Facis and delegates and the important content of its sessions.

This year, the "Get Ready" was exceptional with the record number of AIESECers that was attending the conference which for the first time reached the 500 delegates with a participation of an Algerian delegation.

The topic of the "Get Ready 2010" was inspired from cinema with a rich agenda full of sessions with titles inspired from great films like: Gladiator, The Coach, Fight Club, I'm Legend, Brave Heart...

Get Ready 2010 met the expectations with various sessions focusing on the motivation and the potential exploration for the Newbies that are the AIESEC in Tunisia future and the development of the oldies, Executive Boards (EB) and Local Committee Presidents (LCP).


As every year, LC University was present with a delegation composed of over 60 delegates of new members, EB, responsibles and oldies.
And as usual our LC was not just there to be present as everyone does but it was there to create an additional value, to share experience and to be the voice of a new generation full of energy and ambitions.

Our members was really a model to follow with their commitment, engagement and with their astonishing capacity to learn from their mistakes very quickly.

The excellence of our members was testified by the Chair of the "Get Ready 2010" who said in a session: "Today you played very well LC University!!" after the remarkable participation of University's New Members.

Finally, the "Get Ready 2010" was an occasion to discover the new talents of AIESEC in Tunisia and to see our Newbies growing and confirming their ilimited potential.

Now we think really that they are ready now to move to the next stage which will be the turning point of their lives, this new journey is begining this Saturday in our first LC Meeting which will be crucial for everyone.

The LMS 2010

As every year, AIESEC University has organized its "Local Motivation Seminar 2010 - LMS 2010" which is fixed every October after the recruitment campaign to be the first AIESEC conference for the New Members.

This year, the conference's title was "AIESEC University, what else?" which was inspired from a famous coffee brand. This idea was under the conference's topic which was "Advertisements" from where was the sessions' names: "Just do it!! , Where do you want to go today? , Connecting People...".

More than 55 delegates assisted to diversified sessions based especially on the working groups and the interaction between the new members under the coaching of their Facilitators.

Sessions showed that the first impression made by the New Members in the "Welcome Afternoon" and the training courses in the Local Committee was just a small part of their capacities and potential.

The night's sessions was marked by many simultaneous surprising visits

from: the AIESEC's University's Alumnis, Member Committee Board,

members from AIESEC Médina, AIESEC Bardo and AIESEC Carthage. This visits were an occasion to different AIESEC in Tunisia constituents representatives' (Member Committee, Local Committees, Alumnis...) to meet and to share some great moments, just three weeks before the first National Conference for this year "Get Ready 2010".

Finally the LMS 2010 was the ideal opportunity to discover the real potential of the members recruited that announce a crazy year full of challenges and success as we hope !!

First step !!

The 9th October 2010 will be an unforgettable day for the AIESEC University family.

Over 115 new members from different Tunisian universities and with different studies attended "The Welcome Afternoon 2010" which is an event hosted in the FSEGT (Faculté des Sciences Economique et Gestion de Tunis) every year after the recruitement compaign to be the first contact between the new AIESECers and the world of possibilities that reserves AIESEC.

The event was marked by the exceptional presence of the new members, University's Executive Board, old members and Alumnis, it was really a nice finding for the AIESEC University big family.

Other hand, the futur leaders of AIESEC University assisted to some soft sessions that explained what's AIESEC, it's history, its goals, its structre and the opportunities that contains.

They participated also in the discussion cercles where they discussed about the "AIESEC Way" and they shared their point of vue of management and leadership.

New AIESECers have shown a remarkable motivation with their presence and their active participation in the sessions.

"The Welcome Afternoon 2010" was the first step in AIESEC for the recruited elements but just a beggining of an AIESEC eXPerience that we hope incredible and successful for every member.

Notice that the acceptations this year has reached and exceeded the numbers fixed with 137 acceptations that reflect the increase of the student's interest in AIESEC wich is the fruit of many activities and events made in this two last years by AIESEC University for public.

Hey AIESEC !!

Welcome to the official blog of AIESEC University in Tunisia !!

We are pleased to announce you that AIESEC University, in its quest to develop new tools of communication with people (AIESECers and Externals) has launched an official blog, being the first Tunisian Local Commity to use this kind of technique.

This blog is created to be a new space for interraction between AIESEC University and its environnement: members, Alumnis, partners and AIESECers from all over the world.

In this blog you'll find news about our activities, our projects, eXchange's up-dates, testimonies and more.

We hope that you enjoy our blog content's.

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