URC hosts Gen 8 of Proteges workshop at the Marina World
NBK arranges field trip for Summer Internship trainees to Air Ambulance Center
KUWAIT CITY, July 14: United Real Estate Company K.S.C.P (URC), one of the Middle East and North Africa’s leading real estate developers, hosted a learning workshop with Generation 8 of The Proteges in Hessah Al Mubarak District and Marina World, and attended by URC’s key senior representatives from both the Sales and Marketing Department and the Property Management as well.
The learning workshop included two case studies discussed by URC to Generation 8 of The Proteges, in order for them to create and propose alternative solutions through a presentation performed before a panel represented by URC’s key senior management.
In partnership with Kuwait Projects Company (Holding) — KIPCO, The Proteges program leading supporters, URC continues reflecting its social responsibility and commitments in harnessing national initiatives of empowering the youth with future leadership and survival skills through real life developing and training programs, to confidently meet their unexpected challenges during their upcoming life journey. The learning workshop also aimed at raising Generation 8 of The Proteges awareness of URC’s valued local properties and its clear business vision of real estate development in the Middle East and North Africa region.
“We are delighted to be among the leading supporters of The Proteges programs and activities. We are always keen in investing in our younger generation by actively engaging them in our existing developments in Kuwait’s real estate industry. By instigating their critical thinking, we heavily encourage the youth to create and innovate in order to stimulate their confidence and enable them as future leaders capable of facing life with all its unforeseen challenges,” said Ahmad H. Kasem, Acting Chief Executive Officer at United Real Estate Co.
Hamad S. AlMulaifi, Director of Sales and Marketing at URC, said: “We are pleased to partake in such a youth driven group, Generation 8 of The Proteges, by engaging them into URC’s most prestigious real estate development in Kuwait that is, Hessah Al Mubarak District. Our learning workshop was an opportunity to expose them entrepreneurially, as sales and marketing leaders by addressing our project developments with all its challenging issues in order to levitate their problem solving skills and preparing them as tomorrow’s industry leaders.”
The United Real Estate Company K.S.C.P expresses its sincere appreciation to all those valued members whom contributed towards the workshop’s success.
National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) concluded the first session of its Summer Internship Program 2018, a two week courses custom-made for high school and college students.
The session has ended by a visit to Air Ambulance Center where the students had the chance to tour the center and get to know more about the air ambulance functions and responsibilities. The students had the chance to see also the helicopter used in rescue operations and were closely introduced to the daily work of the center from the minute the patient contacts the dispatch center.
A photo from the event
The Summer Internship Program is made up of four sessions, five-hours daily over two weeks each. The program features a mixture of theoretical and practical training dedicated to provide the interns with valuable knowledge on a variety of subjects such as: teamwork, creative thinking, the means of self-expression and modern banking, in addition to helping them having a greater exposure to daily banking work procedures.
This annual program demonstrates NBK’s longstanding social involvement as well as its national commitment towards providing young generations with the appropriate opportunities to experience how the actual professional banking issues and transactions are handled and processed.
The second session will start on the 15th of July, while the third and the fourth sessions will take place on 29th of July and 12th of August respectively.
It has been 17 years since the establishment of this program. NBK views the Summer Internship Program as an extension to its educative initiatives and as part of its corporate social responsibility.