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Last week, Mohaned Eltayeb, a senior director with GE Gas Power, logged into a regular weekly video conference call from his home in Dubai – pretty typical in the age of COVID-19. However, the other attendees on the call were not customers or colleagues. They were enthusiastic 10th and 11th graders.
“The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.”Ungkapan Mahatma Gandhi di atas masih tetap menjadi sebuahpembelajaran bahkan tujuh dekade setelah kepergian pemimpin karismatik tersebut. Kebanyakan orang akan dengan mudah menjabarkan alasan mengapa masyarakat gagal melampaui ukuran yang Gandhi sebutkan, namun akan tergagap ketika ditanya hal apa yang telah mereka lakukan untuk mencegah kegagalan tersebut.
Anna-Lena Andersson knows that to build a better world, you have to lay a few bricks.
Last October Andersson, head treasurer of GE’s Steam Power division, joined eight of her colleagues to break ground on an elementary school for 150 students in Kaolack, Senegal. “I’ve always believed any kind of change has to start with education,” she says.
Originally published on Wouter Van Wersch’s LinkedIn. Wouter is the President and CEO of GE Asia Pacific.
Cleaning elephants, building a small fishing reserve, and organizing public health screenings are some of the more than 100 diverse community projects supported by GE APAC volunteers last year.
