2.2003 - Samuel

Change of the country
directors of the Samuel
Foundation
in India and Nicaragua
Since July of this year Tapeshwar
Kumar Sood is country director of
the Foundation and Trust in India.
He is 62 years old, married, and
has a son and a daughter. The
skilled scientist made at first a
career as regular soldier at the
Indian Air Force and was there as
a lieutenant colonel responsible for the supply. After resigning
from the active service he assumed the management of a policlinic
in New Delhi for 10 years.
Since August of this year Noel
Robleto Falla is country director of
the Samuel Foundation in Nicaragua.
He is 52 years old, married
and has two sons. The expert in
business management with specialization in international trade,
gained more than 15 years of practical experience in the areas of
import, sales and commercialization of pharmaceutical products
in Nicaragua. In 1996 he created the Nicaraguan-Costarican
Chamber of Commerce and Industry and was its President for
5 years. Afterwards, and until the beginning of his work for the
Foundation, he was director of a private university for industrial
sciences in Managua.
Photo from the daily press in Neu Delhi
In the best company
On the 30th of October, the Asiatic Summit for Youth Entrepreneurship
and Employment took place in New Delhi with highranking
international representatives. The Indian prime minister
Atal Bihari Vajpayee as well as many other prominent figures
from politics, sports and culture participated in the meeting.
Also the British Crown Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, came as
an honour guest in the context of an India journey. He is commited
to educational and training programmes for young people
through the "Prince Charles Charitable Foundation" founded by
him.
To this meeting - the first of its kind in Asia - which took place
in the library of the Indian parliament, the Samuel Foundation
was invited, too. The Foundation was represented by our country
director in India, Mr. T.K. Sood, and two further co-workers.
Prime Minister Vajpayee made clear in his speech held in
front of representatives from politics, economics and NGO's,
that most of the young people in India without an appropriate
job possibility were chanceless. Therefore he assigned a key
position to the promotion of youth entrepreneurship, because
only by that an appropriate number of new jobs could be
created.
The Samuel Foundation, too, has been taking this aspect into
account for a long time, providing appropriate modules in our
training programmes of our centres. Especially our training in
dress designing in India gives best opportunities to make the
graduates independent as subcontractors or as owners of a
small fashion shop, so they get the chance to generate new jobs
for themselves and third persons.
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