Global Volunteer Blogs

Alim Uddin, who took part in Salesforce.com Foundation's 2007 UK BizAcademy program, was astonished to find he was the winner of the London Learning & Skills Council's 'Skills for Life' Learner of the Year Award.

Six Salesforce.com volunteers from London and Toronto, one Salesforce.com Foundation staff, together with two staff from the Tag Rugby Development Trust www.trdt.co.uk from Uganda and one female international rugby player from Uganda, spent a week at St.Martin's Girls'; School in the Kibagare slum just outside Nairobi, Kenya.

Twenty-one salesforce.com employees spent the day with over 500 students to serve as role models to elementary school children while facilitating Junior Achievement’s School Program at Peabody and McCoppin Elementary School. 

Aruj Ahmad participated in the Summer 2006 San Francisco BizAcademy and was an intern in the salesforce.com IT Department.  He shares his experience with the program and his experience as an intern.