Danny and Om signed up for manual labor outside. They are pitching in with several large teams that will work in nearby parks and lakes.
Jon, Stephanie, Katie, Kalie and I are working with children. We headed out early to SVS Model High School (which was in the neighborhood of our driver, Kaleem) to lead classes for the day. Some of us talked to younger children, in what India calls 5th and 6th standard, about manufacturing. We showed them clips of the popular show "How It’s Made" to reinforce the concept that everything that we have comes from an industry and is part of a supply chain.
It was exciting to see the kids become intrigued while watching a video of an ice cream cone being made and then hear them explain the process they had just seen to us.
Other members of the Deloitte Impact team spoke with the older children in 9th and 10th standard about career opportunities. We used the SEEK (Skills, Education, Experience and Knowledge) and VISTA (values, interests, strengths, talents and attitude) models to show the students how they can begin assessing their interests and skills in order to think of what careers they might be interested in pursuing. The students were very involved in this session, and it was inspiring to see how many of them felt strongly about the value of the education they were receiving and their individual desires to become upwardly mobile and achieve their goals.
We weren't nearly as exhausted at the end of our day as Danny and Om were. They had built gravel pathways to local lakes! Nonetheless, we were all tired after our day of service!
Deloitte's 11th annual Impact Day in India, involving over 21,000 employees, 70 projects in 8 cities, was covered in the local newspaper. For coverage in the News Wala Daily click here.
