六大极限项目留住人才

普华永道

    普华永道（PwC）的美国企业责任主管莎伦•斯凯勒介绍道，自从2008年起，普华永道的员工就到伯利兹城，教当地人理财和创业。在这个国家，每10人里就有4个人生活在贫困线以下。今年普华永道打算在伯利兹城建立一个中心，为当地社会提供全年服务，同时也作为来访专家的活动基地。

    无论你是暑期实习生，还是退休的普华永道合伙人，都可以申请参与普华永道的伯利兹项目。这个项目每年都会派400人左右的队伍，到伯利兹的22所学校支教。另外这个项目已经为当地提供了15吨的教学物资，其中包括80多台电脑，并且还提供了600多份奖学金，总金额超过了15万美元。尽管条件十分艰苦，比如电力不足和极端高温，但项目每年还是会收到好几千份申请。

    斯凯勒称：“我们正在改变这些人的生活，接受教育的不仅是学生，也包括当地的教师、校长以及学生家长。”

    这些学校的校长们以前经常把钱存在一个罐子里，现在他们已经有了自己的储蓄账户。一个年仅10岁的小姑娘在学习了创业课之后，自己开始做珠宝生意，现在赚来的钱已经足够帮助家里满足吃穿用度了。

    参加了这个项目的员工在回到工作岗位后变得更加投入，不仅在公司待的时间比其他员工更长了，而且还开始积极追求领导角色。斯凯勒说：“它让我们员工学会了换位思考，为别人提供帮助，换个不同的角度来看事物。他们已经把它变成了工作的一部分……”（财富中文网）

    译者：朴成奎

PwC

    Since 2008, PwC employees have travelled to Belize City to teach financial literacy and entrepreneurship in a country where four in 10 people live in poverty. This year, PwC plans to build a center that will provide year-round services to the community and serve as a home base for visiting professionals, says Shannon Schuyler, PwC's U.S. corporate responsibility leader based in Chicago.

    Everyone from a summer intern to a retired PwC partner can apply to participate in Project Belize, which sends around 400 people to teach in 22 schools each summer. The project has delivered 15 tons of school supplies, including more than 80 computers, and awarded 600 scholarships worth more than $150,000. Despite the harsh conditions, including sporadic electricity and extreme heat, the program receives thousands of applications every year.

    "We're changing the lives of these people," Schuyler says. "You're teaching the students as well as teachers and principals and their parents."

    School principals who previously put money in a jar have opened savings accounts. A 10-year old girl who learned about entrepreneurship started a jewelry business that brings the family enough to help pay for her food and clothing.

    PwC professionals come back from the experience more engaged, not only staying longer at the firm than the norm but also assuming leadership roles, Schuyler says. "It's helped our people to live those values of being in somebody else's shoes and appreciating a different perspective," she says. "They've taken that and made it a part of their work ..."