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Norman Barnett and Bharat Bhasin Award The Norman Barnett & Bharat Bhasin Award is a global award by AIESEC Alumni coordinated by AIESEC International, which rewards the relevance of the AIESEC Experiences delivered by an AIESEC entity to the market and society in two specific areas: Exchange activities run by AIESEC entities in emerging markets and developing economies and Issue-based AIESEC Experiences. These are the AIESEC projects winners in 2008:
China The Awakening Dragon CSR Program has a focus on raising awareness around social responsibility among Chinese students as well as international volunteers, on the different social issues that are pressing in China. The project runs activities in four different directions: •Providing 2-month education cycles on sustainable development to Chinese high-school students from Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Xian
•Empowering primary and secondary school students to create learning environment around clean energy •Providing internships opportunities, engaging social leaders and providing information addressing role of youth in prevention and education around HIV/AIDS. •Providing opportunities to foreign youth to contribute to NGO work in China. The project provided 56 international internships for foreign students in China and sent 244 Chinese students to internships abroad.
Brazil The “Projeto Horizontes” seeks to connect high potential young people with social entrepreneurship initiatives, in order to establish an environment of constant exchange of experiences between the international interns and the organizations. The project has sought to
develop a new generation of young people interested in this issue will have an impact on the organizations in which they will eventually work. Seven foreign youth have been provided with an internship opportunity in Brazil around the topic and 2 Brazilian students have been sent on similar internships abroad.
Colombia The Social Entrepreneurship project consists of various smaller projects around the same topic, run by different local committees of Colombia. The largest project is supported by the Presidential Agency for Social Action and International Cooperation, and financed by the International Organization of Migration. It seeks to better the processes of socio-economic stability of the populations in danger of displacement in cities such as Bogotá,
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Medellín, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Santa Marta, Bucaramanga, Armenia, Pereira, and Manizales. The project accomplishes this goal by sensitizing young Colombian and international members of AIESEC to the displacement problems in Colombia. They, in turn, impact and generate consciousness in their communities, while being involved as international AIESEC members, employees of Social Action, NGOs, universities, and the displaced population in general. The project has provided 51 placements of foreign interns in Colombia and sent 15 Colombian youth abroad.
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