Month of Service

My employer, SAP, has as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility program, a "Month of Service" that usually takes place in October and provides many volunteer opportunities for employees to give back to their local communities.

I have been selected for a program that takes the month of service literally - I've been chosen to participate in SAP's Social Sabbatical program where teams of SAP employees travel abroad to collaborate with entrepreneurs in emerging markets for the entire month of October. The program this year has projects in Shanghai China, Bangalore India, Johannesburg South Africa, and my destination - Porto Alegre Brazil.

This is going to be a great opportunity to give back to others as well as develop some business skills in areas outside my expertise. It's going to be a *lot* of fun as well.

I haven't really blogged before, so this will be a fun new thing to try as well. I'll post a lot of pictures I take once I am down there, so whatever I lack in written eloquence, I hope to compensate for via dazzling imagery :)

Lots more to come...