Global Village 2022: A celebration of cultures

AIESEC Sri Lanka

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Global Village 2022: A celebration of cultures

Global Village is the largest celebration of cultures from around the world hosted by AIESEC, encouraging social sustainability, world awareness, and cross-cultural understanding. 

It is an annual national event organized by AIESEC Sri Lanka that brings together young people from various cultural backgrounds together to celebrate multi ethnicity, cross culture and global citizenship. It is a time of festivity that strives towards promoting peace and harmony by bridging the gaps and differences among countries.

Global Village 2022 was held on the 30th of January 2022 from 1pm onwards, at the Colombo City Center. Foreign Exchange Participants of AIESEC Sri Lanka coloured the event with a  showcase of their nations through singing, dancing, food, costumes, music and traditions through dedicated country booths and a wide spectacle of cultural performances.

The event also brought together AIESEC members and alumni to engage with cultural booths, performances and of course, jives. Attendees of all ages were able to enjoy a taste of traditional cuisine from a host of countries and territories including India, The Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Spain and France and learn fun facts and stories from the exchange participants. Global Village was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to interact with people from all over the world in a single location.

Experience more with the Official Photo Album of Global Village 2022 here. 

Signup with our Global Volunteer opportunities to explore and experience cultures around the world! 
www.aiesec.lk/global-volunteer/

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Join us at Global Village 2022

Global Village is the largest celebration of cultures from around the world, encouraging social sustainability, world awareness, and cross-cultural understanding. 

It is an annual national event organized by AIESEC Sri Lanka that brings together young people from various cultural backgrounds together to celebrate multi ethnicity, cross culture and global citizenship. It is a time of festivity that strives towards promoting peace and harmony by bridging the gaps and differences among countries.

The event will be held on the 30th of January 2022 from 1pm onwards, at the Colombo City Center. Foreign Exchange Participants attending this event will showcase their nations through singing, dancing, food, costumes, music and traditions through dedicated country booths and a wide spectacle of cultural performances.

Those attending the event will have the opportunity to experience this worldwide portal rich in cultural diversity. This will not only strengthen international ties and increase international understanding, but it will also be an enjoyable learning opportunity to develop knowledge and cultural experiences. It will provide participants with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to interact with people from all over the world in a single location.

Global Village 2022 will be held adhering to local health guidelines and participants are required to wear a mask, maintain safe distances and follow health guidelines at all times.

Visit the event page to learn more and stay updated. 

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AIESEC Sri Lanka 2025 Roadmap Launch

AIESEC Sri Lanka has dedicated youth leaders determined to provide leadership development opportunities to Sri Lankan youth. In Sri Lanka, we have an active membership of more than 1000 university students. As an entity with a large member base such as AIESEC Sri Lanka, creating its own mid-term direction while being in alignment with A2025 would ensure the sustainability, growth, and development of the entity.

‘AIESEC Sri Lanka 2025’ is the mid-term direction of AIESEC Sri Lanka directly aligned with the AIESEC 2025 roadmap. The initial implementation stages of the roadmap, which roughly took 8 months consisted of conducting surveys, both internal and external to get the view of the different membership layers, partners, return exchange participants, university administrations, other clubs & associations, general youth, alumni, parents, and also by conducting the first-ever roadmap conference to re-align the objectives towards a sustainable ASL 2025. After the consolidation of the said data, it was validated before the metrics to measure its success were identified, voted, and finalized on three pillars.

Namely, Empowering youth leaders by positioning the AIESEC brand as a leadership development movement and evolving our leadership development portfolio we hope to amplify our reach while delivering an optimal experience to youth.

Building a long-lasting AIESEC envisions that by the year 2025 we will have sufficient resources to continue developing leadership for years to come by having developed profound HR & governing processes alongside being financially stable.

The third pillar, Developing purposeful partnerships hopes to build and keep long-term partnerships that enable growth by optimizing our internal processes, developing stakeholder awareness, and enhancing partner experiences. Building its milestones for each year, its contribution per annum, and set targets were the final steps of the first phase of the roadmap creation.

Phase two comprised of Introducing & designing projects, which was followed by the project evaluation and selection of the best initiatives to achieve the milestones. The 26 projects include having brand ambassadors from each district, acquiring and maintaining influencers, creating psychometric tests, maintaining relationships with our alumni, making AIESEC accessible for school leavers, EwA (Engage with AIESEC to ELD (Experiential Leadership Development) nurturing, raising partnerships that have the ability to extend our reach and facilitate our programs, talent planning, bridging & recruitment upscaling, pipeline management, having an investment framework, creation of a finance academy, implementing a sustainability metric, upgrading our national Human Resource Information System – ASL 360, organizational development dashboards for the local entities, creation of a standard pricing model, sales audit, partner showroom platforms, a nationwide focused SDG facilitation project, partner journey mapping framework and partners night.

These are a few of the roadmap projects designed to achieve the first milestones and to ensure that we Empower Youth Leaders by Building a Longlasting AIESEC while Developing Purposeful Partnerships for a sustainable ASL 2025 in order to engage and develop every young person in the world!

Learn more about the Roadmap and projects on our National Educational Hub. Click here

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National Planning Summit 2022

National Planning Summit 2022 was held on 7th, 8th and 9th of January 2022 at Meth Arana. Our main objective is to align the newly elected leadership body of AIESEC Sri Lanka to the strategic direction of the entity.

We are delighted to say that this initiative is a massive success. The Planning Summit consisted of Essence of AIESEC, team behaviors and synergies, goals and plans for the upcoming term and the strategies to achieve the goals. Further, 8 AIESEC establishments in Sri Lankan universities were onboarded including University of Colombo, University of Kelaniya, University of Moratuwa, University of Peradeniya, University of Sri Jayawardenapura, National School of Business Management (NSBM), Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) and University of Ruhuna.

We are an organization which believes in leadership development and this space was a massive success factor towards the organizational objectives as well as to create more young leaders in Sri Lanka and thereafter, the world.

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AIESEC launches Amplifier ‘21 Leadership Development Program

Amplifier ’21 is Sri Lanka’s first ever island wide leadership development program conducted by AIESEC; world’s largest global youth-run organization aiming to develop leadership potential in youth. This 3-month program commenced on the 19th of September 2021 and 250+ post A/L students were recruited as delegates for Amplifier ‘21 from all 25 districts of Sri Lanka as 10+ delegates from each district. 

In addition to the skills development programs conducted at Amplifier ‘21, a Youth Forum on leadership also took place on the 28th & 29th of November 2021. This forum was open to any youth of Sri Lanka including undergraduates, school students and after A/L students. The maximum participation was planned to be limited to 1000 participants.  AIESEC Sri Lanka aimed to make leadership accessible for all the youth of Sri Lanka by recruiting the delegates from all the 25 districts of Sri Lanka for this program.

Amplifier 2021 has been continuing over the course of 3 months from September to November with various events on several topics including the importance of leadership, motivational sessions, Personality Development and Personal Grooming, Presentation and Public Speaking skills and an interview series where the delegates also obtained an opportunity to conduct one by themselves. All of these events were successfully concluded with the participation and guidance of prominent and talented personalities in Sri Lanka such as; Ms. Kasthuri Chellarajah; Group CEO – Hemas Holdings PLC, Ms. Keshavi Puswewala; Senior HR business partner corporate functions, T&O & employer brand lead – Unilever Sri Lanka, Mr. Kumar de Silva; Personality Development and Corporate Etiquette trainer, Mr. Hasintha Hewawasam; Social influencer, and Mr. Shuaib Ali; a Certified Skills Development Coach.

 

The alumni and active membership of Member Committee of AIESEC Sri Lanka also contributed to the success of the events.

Furthermore, several contestants from The Voice Sri Lanka also performed at some events. 

Banuka Hathurusinghe, Country President, AIESEC Sri Lanka stated, “It is AIESEC’s single minded focus to create strategic learning opportunities for youth in order to enable and develop forward thinking and confident future leaders of the country. This is our invitation to Sri Lankan youth who believe that visionary and inspirational leadership can change the world, to join us.”

Watch one of our delegates share her experience here. 

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