Sunday Summary Week 3

This week, I had the opportunity to finish and turn in my final project on why productive projects should be incorporated in educative projects on a national level. Also, I had the opportunity to go over a lot of pictures and videos from activities that took place throughout the year in Sopo, where people learned how to have a proper alimentary and nutritional security. It was not a very busy week since I finished early my project, but it gave me the opportunity to realize how meaningful this experience was for me.

First of all, and as I commented on previous posts, I had the opportunity to change paradigms that I used to have about multinational companies. This is important because before this experience, I would never have considered working in a multinational company as something that I see for my career, first because I felt that I would not enjoy a “corporate culture” where people just care about increasing profits, keeping a budget and showing growth results of a company measured in economic gains. Through this project, I had the opportunity to see the flip side of multinational companies, where some of them do believe in the importance of having a role in the communities where they operate. Not only that, but it made me realize that the “corporate culture” that I stereotyped before, does not apply to every single company. As a perfect example, Alpina has as part of their vision and culture to produce with sustainability and to create sustainable interactions with the community. Through this, Fundacion Alpina plays a fundamental role showing that “Alpina, alimenta tu vida” (Alpina, nourishes your life) is a motto that goes beyond “nourishment” in a physical way. It is much deeper, as they try to nourish the relations with the community, try to nourish people by making them believe in their abilities by providing them with the tools to grow, to develop and to create wellbeing for them and their families. In this way, I learned a very valuable lesson, that is that wherever I work, I want to feel the passion that the people that work in F.A feel when they develop their projects when they can improve people’s lifestyles in a sustainable way. I want to feel satisfaction not where I have to show a growth indicator, but where I can show a development indicator.