Teammembers
Carolien van Heerebeek
My personal motivation to join this project is that during my stay in India I have seen many poor people, but as girl on my own there I was not able to help them. This project does give me the opportunity to help people that we born in a less developed part of the world in a sustainable way. Especially young children, but also their parents will benefit from the information on healthier food usage and with this a better future for the whole society in the long term can be build.
Furthermore my department shows a lot of interest in sustainability since the economical footprint of DSM is for a large part determined by the raw materials that are purchased. DSM Purchasing has also adopted one of the schools included in the School Feeding Program, the Community School at Lusaka. I am very eager to visit this school and find out what we can do to support them even more!
Vikram Sharma
I stay in Chandigarh which is a modern, well planned city located at the foothills of Shivalik range of mountains in Northern part of India and was designed by the famous French architect, Le Corbusier.
My wife works for a school which provides free education and food to almost 900 students who come for economically weaker section of society. My daughter studies in grade II and younger son in Kindergarden. I love watching soccer and indulge in gardening as well as socialising. Reading Business subjects keeps me engaged on weekends besides spending quality time with family.
I have done my Masters in Business Administration and specialized in Human Resources from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune, India.
I consider myself really fortunate for having got an opportunity to represent DAI as well as India in the DSM-WFP assignment in Zambia (June 2008 team)
Marianne Kuppens
Who/what: I studied chemical engineering in Eindhoven and after graduating I studied a year at the College des Ingenieurs in Paris (MBA). After working for ExxonMobil in Meerhout (B) and in Rotterdam, I started this year in Geleen for DSM - moving back to the south of the Netherlands.
Why did I apply for this assignment:
It’s a great opportunity to be able to go to Africa – an impressive continent with its own culture – and try to make a difference, do something!! We will have the chance to get to know the people of Zambia in a different way than when ‘just visiting’ as tourists. We will be working together on a very important task: improve the (knowledge of) nutrition and health, focussing on 4th graders (who can then in their way spread their knowledge to all the community). It is a challenge, especially since we will only be working with the Zambian people for 2 weeks, but we are with a group of 4 enthusiastic people and the next groups in October will built further on the ground work we have done..
Adri Geeve
For the last 6 years I was also involved in the work counsel. Sustainable Entrepreneurship is a very important statement for our company. It gives a focus on people, planet and profit.My motivation to participate in the Zambia project together with the World Food Programme is my belief that we as individuals and as a company can make the difference.
Once I visited the mountain people in Peru and friends came up with arguments as: 'Why should you help them….they have their own values and we have ours'.My answer was that 'hunger' is not a value…. it's our enemy! It is the number one killer on our planet!Passion for people is my motivation to make the difference in the fight against hunger.Let's fight together with the weapons of innovation, knowledge, money and love.
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Join us for Walk the World 2008!
The world's largest global fundraising event
On 1 June 2008 hundreds of thousands of people around the world are expected to walk 5 kilometers, the average distance a child in a developing country has to walk to school, often without having eaten. The objectives of the global ‘Fight Hunger: Walk the World’ event are to increase awareness of child hunger and malnutrition and to raise additional funds for the WFP’s School Feeding Program. The walk will take place around the globe in 24 time zones.
The walk started in 2003 as an Asian regional TNT employee fundraising activity, and has since grown into the world’s largest annual global fundraising event involving DSM, TNT, Unilever and WFP employees, their families/friends, other corporate partners, humanitarian institutions, and civil organizations.
In 2007 over 800,000 people in 118 countries walked, generating awareness for the problem of hunger as well as raising about € 2 million for the WFP’s School Feeding Program.
On behalf of the WPF, DSM, TNT and Unilever are as corporate partners organizing Walk the World 2008 in the Netherlands. DSM employees are also actively participating in various other countries such as China and Switzerland.
Within an agreed global framework, the walk will be organized locally, and will be a fun and worthwhile way of spending a Sunday for employees, their families and friends.
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