{"id":6525,"date":"2013-04-03T08:55:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T12:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/?p=6525"},"modified":"2022-12-07T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T20:00:06","slug":"did-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/2013\/04\/03\/did-you-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know …"},"content":{"rendered":"
The McGill HEC Montreal EMBA students and the students of the tiny Bananier Primary School in the town of Petit-Goave couldn\u2019t be more different. Bananier is a small island where the inhabitants have limited financial means and live mainly from fishing and some farming, while the 2013 EMBA class is a group of senior executives in Montreal. Nevertheless, these managers and forty year-old \u201cstudents\u201d have made a difference in the lives of six classes of children of this small Haitian school.<\/p>\n
Nathalie Angibeau, Field Coordinator for the United Nations Office for Project Services<\/a> (UNOPS<\/a>), had no difficulty in persuading her 37 classmates to raise funds in order to give to each child and each member of the school staff, a kit containing pencils, erasers, notebooks, soap, a ball or a skipping rope for the younger, a geometry set, deodorant and skin lotion for the teens and chalk, calculators, books, staples and a school bag for the principal and the teachers. The money raised by the students of EMBA totaled $ 2,400. It is a small gesture that had major repercussions for the students of Bananier but also for our program participants.<\/p>\n