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RACE 4 GOOD
FOBISIA LEADERSHIP & SERVICE COMPETITION
11/24/2021
Over the past 2 weeks, I participated in an online competition called Race4Good hosted in collaboration with the FOBISA organization. This was a new experience and my group were unsure of what to expect.
Our challenge for the first round was to help uplift a family in rural Nepal with a 400 GBP budget. We had to ensure our venture was sustainable and feasible, while respecting their culture and making it appropriate for their situation. Along the way, we were also given several mid-race challenges which tasked us with a limited budget to uplift a certain section of the community, such as their healthcare post, education, culture, sports and other areas.
We had to work together as a group to come up with the best ideas for each challenge, and an important part was sorting out disputes regarding different opinions within our team. Unfortunately, as a team we got caught up in completing these mid-race challenges and delayed action on the main challenge to the very end, but luckily we were still able to complete our business plan and managed to win the first round!
While I am grateful for this victory, 2 rounds still lie ahead and I believe we must be more organized in the future in order to secure the overall victory.
1/20/2021
It has been a week since my last entry, and for the second round, we had to navigate through a combination of two more mid-race challenges while preparing for the second Community Uplift tasked to our group.
This time, the situation was of a lone father and his children, and their very limited financial resources as an individual family and as a community. We decided to focus on the father's beekeeping skills to create a multi-family cooperative that would generate income for all. Along the way, we had more disagreements (as expected), but at the end of the day we learned to listen to each other more and combine our ideas to make them better, using the relevant evidence we had on the community and their situation to ensure our plan and its consequences fit with their goals and dreams. Even though we didn't win, I was still immensely proud of our team's efforts and I really did feel that the race taught me new skills along the way.
I think it was a valuable experience for everyone in our group, and even though we didn't reach the goal, the journey was certainly worth it!
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