Project "Be the change"

Week 6

For this Saturday, July 25, we prepared a different topic for the advice, it was about Etiquette.

We arrived the Cooperativa at 10 o´´clock, a little bit late because the street where is the Cooperativa was closed because of Guayaquil´s Foundation parade.

In the Cooperativa, there were 7 socias waiting for our training and also was a 16 year-old guy, that was a nephew of one of the socias. It was great to see more socias and also other people (socias´s relatives) involved in our trainings and social service.

For this advice, related to Etiquette, we taught the socias the correct ways to introduce others and themselves, the priorities at the moment of introduce two people according to the sex, age and social or profesional status. A lso we taught them the presentation formulas and the attitude that they must have when they are presented. Finally, we finished our Etiquette advice, teaching them the correct sitting posture.

To create a more significant learning, we made some activities with the participants where they had to apply and practice the rules of Etiquette we taught them . Also we gave the some material (copies) of our training.

At the end of our training, the socias were very happy because they asked us a training related to Etiquette since we started to give advices in the Cooperativa. They told us the importance of the Etiquette for them because they said that when they have meetings in the Cooperativa or in other places, most of the times they don´t know what to do or how to behave in this type of situations.

For me, the most important part of this training was when the socias told us that they were grateful with us because of what we have done and taught them.