US EHS Community Meeting: 100 Stars of Hope

The US Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) team met in North Carolina this week, with over 100 attendees.  During our meeting, we took time to learn about Project Hope UK,  The Thoughtful Path and about the ‘Star of Hope’ project.   We made 100 ‘Stars of Hope’  which will be used by the children of Muncieville in decorating during the festival at Christmas time.  Making the stars was great fun and was energizing – we hope that the children and the community enjoy reading and seeing them as much as we did in making them!    Here are a few pictures of the group in action and the results-  We plan to work on health/safety messaging books for the clinics between now and departure date. We have $232.00 donated during the meeting to go with our stars to support the festival.

Visiting Munsieville

Last weeK I met with Claire Hitchcock from Comminity Relations and she encouraged me to think about a senior management presence with the team going to Munsieville in November. I discussed this with Bob who unfortunately cannot attend this year, but he encouraged me to go and suggested I invite Cathie Mackay also as a member of his LT. So Cathie and I will be joining the team for the first couple of days and to join in with the kick off of the programme. This will be a great opportunity for us to demonstrate to other senior leaders the commitment and value of this association with Project Hope. I hope it will inspire other senior leaders to follow in our footsteps. I am so excited now to be going out there with everyone.
I would like to recognise all the great work that Carola has been doing to help support us on the journey so far. I am sure she will continue to do so as we deepen our understanding of the work we need to be involved with. Carola sent me today some great work on evaluating the benefits of the programme and I have sent this work onto you, our Musieville pioneers, with a request to enhance by the end of next week. Robert is working to complete the biography book for us now that Carola has travelled to Musieville. Let me know how you are all feeling. Adrian

Preparing our trip

We are all greatly looking forward to our journey to Munsieville. Right now we are arranging to get our vaccinations and travel health risk assessments finalised so that we are all fit and healthy for our trip. We are also arranging for our Subject Access clearance which will provide the authorities with the necessary information for us to work in South Africa. The VTC's arranged by Project Hope are a great way to prepare us. Only 10 weeks to go!

Supporting Project Hope

We are so looking forward to supporting Project Hope. The idea has caught the imagination of our community and I really hope this is the start of a lasting and growing relationship. Adrian

Welcome to your blog!

Project Hope UK would like to thank the GSK H&S team for working with us in the Thoughful Path project in Munsieville in the period November 27th until December 10th. We are looking forward to your stories, thoughts, learnings and experiences. We are convinced that this will be an exciting experience in which you will be able to support and stimulate the people of the community in Munsieville. For the team this working visit will also be a great learning experience that even might be life changing. We hope that many of you will use this blog to share your experiences with us and your colleagues within GSK. We wish you good luck preparing for your visit and look forward working with you!