HHSCM Alumni Spotlight

What was your role when you attended the HHSCM program?

I was the assistant logistics officer before my professional learning at Georgia Tech. The scholarship that I was given by the UPS Foundation has played a big role in my career, and as soon as I returned to my workplace and applied the knowledge learned in the training to put in place now ways of storage in our deports to a standard that was not in place… after that immediately was sent for an intervention to the yellow fever break outbreak in the capital Kinshasa. I represented my organisation in the planning on a national level with the CDC members from Atlanta WHO and MOH from the government of DR Congo. We carried out the vaccination study for the capital city with an estimate of about 14 million people and we reached out every community to prepare in the province.

How has your knowledge from the HHSCM program assisted you in your role since you attended?

As of now, I am the Acting Operation Coordinator to Lualaba province. I was recently sent to support the coordination of Projects Implemented…entrusted to plan and distribute 250 hospital beds to 8 health zones of Lualaba province that was donated by the USAID in our project PROSANI. I used all distribution techniques that I learned from HHSCM which made it easy to plan and distribute I shear my knowledge to all the coordination partners and support then understand whet supply chain is all about from the simplest form of logistics to the expert level as to build the capacity of our logistic staff members too.

Would you recommend HHSCM to a colleague and why?

This was a golden chance that I could ever have in a country like mine where no educational institution exists that educates Logistics and supply chain as a career. That is why I officially thank UPS Foundation for the scholarship it has given a big impact to my organisation and my career. I wish that they continue to give scholarships to countries that can’t afford this kind of professional learning it will continue giving the impact to communities especially third world countries and war affected regions. This scholarship is very important, and it has changed my life, and I know it will change everyone's life as the impact is to the community and my organisation.