Today was our pre-recruitment meeting. It went very well! About 45 young people came and about 10 were excused because they had to sit their final exams. We were really excited of the outcome. This was the result of word to mouth from our Ugandan leadership team.During the meeting we went over the Tjeko values. We want people who embrace our values. Our biggest challenge and responsability is to make sure we have the right people in our Tjeko bus.
One of our favorite quote is from Jim Collins' book "Good to Great". Here is what it said 'people are not your asset but RIGHT people are!' We are going after the right people for Tjeko. The right people in the right seat. And the wroong people off the bus. Pray and agree with us about that.
From our budget we can afford 30 of them and have a margin of 5 so a total of 35. Again we only want to have the creme of the crop... la creme de la creme for Tjeko.
We gave them the color test as homework to do. Explaining to them how to fill it in brought back so many memories of NY. It was always a challenge togo over it with our interns and here it was just the same lol.
It's going to be very interessing to see the result of the color test. For us it will help us to understand who they are and how they can best fit within Tjeko, the work and the culture. It's really exciting to see how God is guiding everything... Thursday and Friday Ferdi, Ben and Deus got to visit all the selected schools in Jinja and invited them for Tjeko Fun fair.
Thanks for your support and prayers. We truly appreciate it. We are aware that we couldn't do Tjeko without you. On behalve of all of us, the children, the volunteer, the v/d Bergh family... Thank you!
Potential Tjeko Academy students filling out their applications on the spot!
Great welcoming 'coffee and thee' table of st. Jude. It really was nice! Great- because we'll be here 6 more days!!!
Within 10 days we got 45+ students! How fun!
Maelle is a real help! She keeps telling us: "I am working for the Tjeko Container". We've tried to tell her that the container is not coming yet...but hey, at least she is preparing for it!