A new ground-breaking recognition program for members of the SAP Developer Network (SDN) and Business Expert communities (BPX) was started on January 1, 2008. The community member participation will be rewarded with a donation to the United Nations World Food Programme’s Food for Education.
For several years, SAP has successfully encouraged members of the SDN and Business Process Expert communities to share their knowledge and experience with other members through a program that awards points for contributions to the community, such as blog posts, articles, code samples, tutorials, videos or forum posts. Community members vigorously compete to be recognized as top global contributors, and prizes are awarded for reaching point milestones. The new program replaces the distribution and shipping of prizes such as t-shirts with prizes in the form of World Food Programme donations.
This blog will frequently show where the donated money from the CN recognition program is going. Children from Ethiopia, Laos, and Columbia tell us stories about their lives and how the UN WFP with the Food for Education initiative is helping them. Read the first story of a young girl from Columbia:
Catherine is nine years old. She is in Fourth Grade in “Colegio El Saber”, a school located in El Pozón Neighborhood, a marginal area inhabited mainly by displaced people in Cartagena, Colombia.
Catherine enjoys going to the school. She has lots of friends there and she says she likes her classes and loves to learn new things every day.
She doesn’t have a pair of shoes of her own. The ones she holds in her hands are borrowed from her oldest sister, and she uses them only on occasions, as she doesn´t want to damage them.
Her parents are from a small town in the province of Cesar. Two years ago they had to leave their home and belongings due to illegal armed groups threats. Her father is a welder and her mother makes bread at home and sells it door to door. Both incomes added are not enough to feed Catherine’s 5 siblings. That is why she also loves to come to the school, because she and more than 1.000 other children receive a free lunch supported by WFP School Feeding Programme.
Catherine wants to be a dancer one day, but a pretty one, she adds; a pretty one with nice shoes and a nice dress.
