ALUMNI SHARING OUTPUT
Activity: Alumni Sharing
Date: Saturday 13 December 2008
Time: 20:30 – 22:30
Venue: Hotel AQUARIUS MARINA 2000, YOUPWE-Douala
Attended by:
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Mr. Jacques NDJAMBA MBELEK, Alumnus, Partner Cameroun Audit Conseil;
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Mr. Laurent TETANG, Alumnus, Microsoft;
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Mr. Joseph EVEGA MVOGO, Alumnus, Lycée d’Akwa;
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Mr. Kissinger MINSILI, Alumnus;
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Mr. Jean Louis SHUDZEKA, Alumnus, Founder & CEO NAVTI Foundation ;
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Mr. Jeremi AKOMIAN, Alumnus, MTN Cameroon;
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Mr. Christian EYOUP, Alumnus;
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Mr. Habib EWANE, Alumnus & Conference Chair person, Interface France
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Mr. Wilfred TCHASSE, session facilitator, Current MCP AIESEC Cameroon
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The Facilitators, Cameroon MC VPs & international facilitators;
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The Delegates, about 102 from LCs and Conference Organizing Committee and interns.
Agenda:
Introduction:
Alumni talk:
Open space: Q&A:
Conclusion & debriefing:
Alumni Dinner:
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Before going trough the out put of the session, we will like to remind about the objectives and the
key messages expected by AIESEC Cameroon when planning a session for Alumni and invited them
at this National Induction and Motivation Seminar( Jump in Douala 2008).
Objectives:
 Participants connect with former members of AIESEC Cameroon
 Delegates exchange with Alumni
 Alumni share their experiences with current AIESEC members so as to make the
 Delegates understand the incredible experiences they are going through daily.
 Delegates are more motivated though inspiration from Alumni.
Key messages: Alumni share their most memorable moments of their AIESEC careers, how they
lived their AIESEC experiences at their times not only happiest memories but saddest ones as well
so delegates understand they will most probably face same challenges but what matters at the end
of the day is the experience they are getting for their personal development in life. Most
importantly Alumni shall focus on the impact AIESEC had on them during their involvement in the
organization and how they are actually using or capitalizing on it in their social and professional
life.
1-Introduction
With a very short Roll Call leading by the Chair of the conference, Habib EWANE, introduces the
Session Responsible and gives him the opportunity to deliver it.
Then Wilfred TCHASSE, stared by welcome everybody, reminded the objectives of the session and
welcome Alumni on stage.
2-Alumni talks
Each Alumnus introduces himself/herself and shares memories about his/her time in AIESEC.
Wilfred TCHASSE invited each of them to deliver his/her speech.
Mr. Jacques NDJAMBA MBELEK was the first. What we should keep is that he joint AIESEC in
1991 at ESSEC (University of Douala) when he was 21 year old. He occupied his first leadership
position as Local Committee Vice President Finance the same year and the next term, he attended
the National Bureau as Vice President Finance and Administration. During the mandate 1994-1995,
he was elected as National President of AIESEC Cameroon.
The big memorable event he and his team mates organised was the African Congress in 1995 here
in Cameroon. 18 African countries were involved and other counties as guests for a total of 200
delegates. Five ministers of the Republic of Cameroon and many General Managers of Companies
in Cameroon attend the conference, also with the footballer Roger MILLA as special guest.
At the end of the conference, they received a Letter of Congratulation from the President of the
Republic of Cameroon.
He said that they were the first generation of leaders in AIESEC Cameroon who succeeded
involving in AIESEC activities companies like PriceWaterHouse Coopers, Brasseries du Cameroun,
Nestle Cameroun, Guiness Cameroon S.A, and also the building of a Sponsor Group and a National
Board of Advisors. AIESEC gave him opportunities to go to many countries around the world and
today it remain the record such as even his company has not gave him this numbers of travelling
opportunities. He is now Associates in Cameroon Audit Conseil and he realized that many
professional tools useful for Managers as him today, AIESEC has permitted him to use before and
today it is easier for him to plan with, to assess, track and review with and also to deliver.
He is not feeling happy by what has happened after him till date because the stage of performance
is under what he left. He recommended us to boost the situation and he promised his support and
endorsement for future actions.
From him we should note that AIESEC is a world of opportunities and an organisation based on
exchange. We should do our best to seize them and to develop ourselves
Mr. Jeremi AKOMIAN, he is an Ivorian. He has never played leadership role during his AIESEC
Experience. He joined the organisation in 2004 trough his wife and he was involved as Team
Members mainly for fund raising. He has brought a lot of in AIESEC Cote d’Ivoire in terms of
raising, and training (Team Building, Team motivation, Team Management). In 2006 he decided to
go on exchange and the target was with AIESEC in Cameroon. After his matching with MTN
Cameroon Ltd, by the trip KQ 740, on July 5, 23006 he arrived in Douala-Cameroon. They started
a new life in what he called now “My second Nation”. He met, any people within this company
(MTN) and are living diversity, occupying many challenging positions. Today he is Technical
Manager of the Human Resources Department, this position has permitted him to train and educate
workers in the company in many countries where MTN is based and recently he was in the Head
Quarter of the Company in South Africa to train workers on new tools.
For him we can learn that AIESEC is a school of life, AIESEC is a dream and we should dream, also
that leadership is not a position and everyone is a leader and can contribute in AIESEC as much as
possible if getting involved.
Mr. Kissinger MINSILI joined AIESEC in 2000 and has worked enough with the Local President of
AIESEC Douala, Hubert FODOP. When working with the partner organization ADRH APAVE, he was
selected and allocated to the Human Resources Department where he worked later full time and
today he is the Human Resources Deputy Manager at PERENCO Cameroon. So, AIESEC has given
him the opportunity to do what was aligned to his academic course, later to get exposed to the
professional milieu and later to be selected to work in the management of people which is what he
learnt at school. He said we should know that AIESEC is developing Top talent and for this reason
we should be able to deliver the promises of AIESEC. And that’s why we should note that if we
want people to continuous believe in AIESEC, we should pressure ourselves for performance and
later we will have rewards and recognition for the job we did.
Mr. Christian EYOUP has joined AIESEC Douala in 2006 and get involved directly in the raising
campaign of African Exchange and Leadership Development Seminar (AFROXLDS) ,Douala and
Limbe 200-28 March 2006. This seminar was a great success for all facilitators, corporate and noncorporate, guests and delegates from 22 countries worldwide. This was the one of the main step of
his Taking Responsibility stage of the Flow AIESEC Experience. Later he has decided to go on
exchange and the matching was done with AIESEC Ghana as the host Local Committee. Hi
internship was renewing on the request of the company in terms of duration. That’s why he spent
18 months there for the internship, leaving in this new milieu far from his friends, from his family
but closed to his second family AIESEC. Today, he is back to Cameroon since least than 2 months
and he is in charge of Research and Strategy at UBA, (a new Bank in Cameroon since 2007).
For him, we should keep in mind that in AIESEC every body will spend his money, his time, his
energy and so on, but we should know that all of these have a return on investment and we are
the only responsible of the follow up of this process.
Mr. Joseph EVEGA MVOGO. He is one of the founder members of AIESEC Cameroon. He was part
of the pioneers in 1985 at The University of Yaoundé. He said, people were coming from Europe
and were there to present the organisation AIESEC at that time. As he said those guys have
realized that they were really motivated there in Yaoundé and that’s why they decided to start
there with the first group of students which later became the official extension with AIESEC in
Germany as Coach Country till the year 1988 where we have our full member status. Generally
speaking he didn’t occupied leadership role specifically but he was there every time when AIESEC
Cameroon was in activity.
For him as Teacher, the only and unique thing he wants us to keep is that firstly we should work
and work hard everywhere we are and everywhere we go.
Mr. Laurent TETANG. He started by presenting is mentor who is Mr. Jacques NDJAMBA
MBELEK present here. He knows AIESEC in 1994 where he was at second year at the ESSEC,
University of Douala and the first contact was through documents about AIESEC. During the African
Congress organized by Cameroon in 1995 he was acting as team member. He attended the
leadership role in 1997 as Project Director. He failed to attend the Local Committee President
position of AIESEC Douala in 1998 and decided to found the SID (Society fore International
Development) where he worked a lot before having a job.
For him, we should keep in mind that AIESEC is non-politic but there is politic in the way AIESEC is
doing sometime and in particular during elections. And also that in AIESEC if you want information,
you need to find them sometime by yourself rather than waiting.
Mr. Jean Louis SHUDZEKA. He joint AIESEC in 2000 in Buea. He starts his leadership position
there and attends the National Bureau as Vice President External Relations, term 2004-2005. After
what he went in internship, came back and decided to help his community. Today he is the
PRESIDENT of NAVTI FOUNDATION, CAMEROON an NGO which mission is to provide developmental
activities to the underprivileged in a community in Education, Health and Rural Development.
What we should remember from him is that we need to give back what AIESEC give us and also
that our community needs us to act as change agents.
3-Open space: Q&A
Delegates asked questions to Alumni and they replied. Questions asked were focusing on
comparison of present situation and past one, on trends of today that we should capitalize on.
According to the delegates fund raising is very difficult today than ever. Government is not very
receptive about youth organisations today, and partnership with private became a very challenging
issue. They want Alumni to given them some tips to approach companies and also to help them
with new strategy for fund raising.
Mr. Jacques NDJAMBA and other Alumni replied firstly by stressing on the professionalism as
required criteria for all the process of fund raising and partnership. He recommended us to never
present ourselves as students, but as leaders who are running the organisation AIESEC. By taking
his case, he makes us understand that CEO, Directors, or Managers are very busy so we should
present what is useful only. The nest feed back was on the relationship management between
AIESEC and other Organisations/Companies. A good relationship management and good
presentation skills are keys for sustainable partnership according to him.
4-Conclusion & debriefing
Here the MCP thanked all Alumni for their coming and sharing and emphasizes on what we can
learn out of this Alumni sharing session. He invited alumni to a dinner. Delegates addressed their
good byes to Alumni and expressed their thanks.
5-Alumni Dinner
This was a very short moment of reconnection between alumni present at this Alumni sharing
Session. These are last recommendations we received from them: -Build the database – Develop a
Strategy to involve them in AIESEC activities- Develop activities/projects that can interest them or
their Organisations/Companies.