Sunday Summary Week 1

Part A: Understand the organization, what they work on, and the importance of their work in a national level in terms of development and sustainability


Part B: This week, it was an excellent opportunity to understand the values, mission and vision better. I was assigned to read multiple documents that explained the progress of an educational project that Fundacion Alpina has been working on for the past two years named “Sopó, A Place with Nutritional and Alimentary Security”. This project, intends to provide better nutritional and alimentary conditions to the municipality of Sopó, through various campaigns designed for educational institutions, day care centers, small food store businesses and the general public. I was also assigned to write a report on how this project could be adapted to other municipalities in the rest of the country.

It was fascinating to learn that a company as big as Alpina, has a main purpose dedicated towards sustainability issues. I really enjoyed learning about the project because as I read the theoretical background of the project, I realized that more than feeding the people in the municipality, F.A’s goal is to teach them on how they can do it by themselves, how they can implement best practices at home. This demonstrates that Fundación Alpina does not engage in assistencialism or practices that create dependence on them from the community. This means that they believe as an organization that Sopo’s population needs to be active participants. They believe in the importance of working together with the population in order to see a real change. This is shown in theory and in the results obtained so far.

 It shocked me how important is for them to create a sustainable economic and social development. These are the two main things that I would like to work for in my future career. I am sure that I want to design my career in a way that I can work in a field where I can create economic development opportunities. I did not realize that multinational companies like Alpina had such an important social responsible component as part of their pillars. This has made me open my options of fields of work in the future, perhaps a company like Alpina who works towards improving the lives of the people who live close to the communities where they work at. It would be interesting to look more into other companies that have similar projects.