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Great Job SCOMAT!

On the 19th of April 2019, SCOMAT Caterpillar dealer situated

in Mauritius partnered with POLYTECHNICS FLACQ Technical

School to officially launch Technicians for Africa in the Island.

The T4A launch was officially conducted by SCOMAT,

Caterpillar Johannesburg District Office representatives (James

Ramabu & Ennie Ndweni), and the Mauritius Institute of

Training and Development (MITD). A total of 80 third year male

students attended the opening ceremony and were looking

forward to this exciting the opportunity to get exposed to the

earthmoving industry.

Speakers included, Mr Labour (General Manager at Scomat); Mr

Joosery (Director of the MITD), who had the honour of doing the

symbolic login into the T4A online platform. In Mr Labour’s speech, he

encouraged the students to complete their modules, and is looking

forward to their T4A certification. Technician for Africa Lead for

Southern Africa; James Ramabu had an opportunity to share

successes of T4A deployment in other African territories, and words of

inspiration with the students.

The school expressed an interest in deploying and integrating T4A

curriculum in other branches of their technical schools within Mauritius

Island with an intent to benefit all local technical students enrolled in

their technical schools.

Visit the Scomat Facebook page at:

https://www.facebook.com/scomatltee/

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ABRG/T4A Senegal STEM Schools visit with SaudequipBy: Emmanuel Techie and Mame Gueye

Caterpillar Africa Business Resource Group (ABRG) in collaboration with Saudequip / JA Delmas,

completed a successful T4A schools visit in Senegal from June 10th to 14th, 2019. Much thanks to

the great HR team at Saudequip led by Christianne Georgette Dossou, supported by Seynabou

Diagne, who participated in the presentations at all the four schools visited. The Caterpillar team

was led by Mame Diarra Gueye, ABRG/T4A Senegal Lead supported by Emmanuel Kojo Techie,

ABRG Global Chair. Also, thanks to JA Delmas HR Director Ingrid Jouvet, who initiated the ABRG

T4A deployment support partnership with Delmas back in June 2018.

Four schools were visited and five T4A presentations made. The students and staff learned a great deal about

Caterpillar, and Saudequip’s business, type of talents they seek and their established a hiring process into their

apprentice training program.

The Centre D'entreprenariat et de Développement Technique

(CEDT /G15) is an India/Senegal partnership school that offers

traditional technical education with emphasis on entrepreneur

mindset. We made 2 presentation sessions to provide over 50

students’ opportunity to hear about T4A, as many students were

writing exams. We also completed our Live Demo session, where we

guided students through a step-by-step registration process with a

student volunteer, while many others followed along on their smart

phones. This helpful demo session enabled many students and staff

to complete creating their profiles and registering for T4A on the spot.

Students who had previously started the registration process but

stopped due to challenges also found some answers to unresolved

question and moved on to complete registration.

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Centre de Formation Professionnelle et Technique (CFPT/SJ)

is another partnership technical training center, this time with the

Japanese government. It was no surprise to find their workshop

decorated with competitor (Komatsu) engines and machines for

practical training. About 53 students and staff were in

attendance. For the live Demo session at LPJ, Mame Gueye

turned on her Mobile hotspot, making WIFI connectivity instantly

available to all participants. This significantly enhanced the demo,

as we were able to identify and answered variety of registration

questions. This further emphasis the need to address internet

access and computer availability challenges that hinders

technical training and knowledge transfer progress in most

African schools. Although CFPT has strong partnership with

Japan (with Japanese instructors on site), they were very

interested to know more about Caterpillar product and services

and Career prospect with Saudequip. One student had a design

idea for Caterpillar machine and asked how he could channel his

thoughts to be reviewed by Caterpillar. The team connected him

with Saudequip staff to start the discussion.

Perform is a relatively small private technical school that specialize in Digital Marketing and distribution in addition

to Mechatronics and automation technology. Over 60% of the entire 120 student population participated in the T4A

presentation and engaged in meaningful discussion about technology and career prospects. School administration

was very interested in solid partnership to further train students with exposure to real-world technical environment.

ABRG team has recommended to the Abidjan DO and Saudequip to follow-up to further nature the talent

development relation established.

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Ecole supérieur Polytechnique (ESP), is a higher polythechnic institute, with a very diversed and relatively

mature students. They were very curious about higher technical education opportunities, global standard work

ethics and Caterpillar careers. Out of 65 students participated in the T4A presentation, 18 were enthusiatics femal

Mechanical & Electrical students with keen interest in diversity and Inclusion as it relates to femals in the technical

areas at Caterpillar and Saudequip workplaces. Mame and Seynabou as females currently in the workplace used

personal stories and experiences to help provide pertinent answers to their interesting questions. One student

shared and encouraging story where, decided to change course of study at the final year, however he had very

limited understanding on the engineering area of interest. He took to the internet and found T4A program.

Completing the courses provided him the exact hydrualic and engines fundamentals needed and confidence to

understand the advanced courses. He was successful and today ready to graduate. He encouraged the students

to complete the T4A to secure the knowledge now and use it to better understand all the advance courses

required to graduate. The department heads also requested a follow up presentation to the larger ESP

engineering student audience on work ethics with Resume/CV critic session. ABRG/T4A team will continue the

discussion with Abidjan DO and Saudequip on meeting this follow up action item.

Overall, a great T4A schools visit in Dakar, Senegal. There is a need to extend awareness of T4A benefit and

the Caterpillar Brand to schools outside of Dakar. Two out of 4 schools visited have talent development

partnership with a competitor and/or country other than Caterpillar and USA. This is an area ABRG/Caterpillar

need renewed focus to better compete for top talent and business to win in this emerging market. A total of 240

students in four STEM institutions have increased their awareness of the Caterpillar Brand with increased

knowledge of the importance of Science Technology Engineering & Math (STEM) for African’s development.

ABRG team can work with your team to visit schools in your territory, initiate a sustainable talent development

relationship that will bring value to your technical talent pipeline strategy.

For further information about ABRG’s mission, vision and how you could help Caterpillar win in Africa, please

contact us at https://www.yammer.com/cat.com/#/threads/inGroup?type=in_group&feedId=12221384&view=all

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Dealers Note:1. Please review the shared documents you have received at the beginning of the month with your teams.

2. Review your metrics and identify the newly certified learners to be contacted by your dealership .

3. Check the list of new enrollments and evaluate the school these students belong to. Then organize your visits.

4. Please revise your T4A coordinator names and update as appropriate.

Monthly Metrics

See how your country is progressing on key metrics.

May 2019: Technicians for Africa - Program views by country.

For those students who have completed the curriculum , the certificate of completion is generated

electronically by the system and the student receives a congratulatory email. In this email, learners are

requested to complete a survey adding their personal details and they are advised that they will be

contacted by the dealership in their respective country for a tour .

May 2019: 634 NEW REGISTRATIONS AND 50 NEW CERTIFIED STUDENTS

TOTAL REGISTRATIONS: 28,267. TOTAL CERTIFIED STUDENTS: 1,929.

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Did You Know?

The T4A program added 6 new countries (in red below) and now covers 34.

Angola

Bostwana

Mozambique

South Africa

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Ghana

Kenya

Liberia

Nigeria

Sierre Leone

Tanzania

Uganda

Egypt

Ivory Coast

Senegal

Burkina Faso

Mali

Congo DRC

(Katanga)

Ethiopia

Madagascar

Comoro Islands

Mayotte

Seychelles Islands

Cameroon

Congo - Brazzaville

Congo DRC

Gabon

Morocco

Rwanda

Tunisia

Algeria

Sudan

Mauritius

Arabic is here!

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Mozambique, Senegal & Ethiopia had the highest increase in registrations for the

month of May.

6 New Countries Added

The T4A program is now offered in the Arabic language.

Top 3 – New Registrations by Country

Student SpotlightPictured on the right is Ibrahima Fall, who completed the T4A

program in Senegal.

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Technicians for Africa Deployment

We would like to thank Sumo Mulbah, ABRG/T4A Liberia Lead for his

commitment to promote the Technicians for Africa program. The

Caterpillar Africa Business Resource Group (ABRG) has been our

partner in the deployment of this program for some time. Recently, the

Technician for Africa (T4A)program had some students in Liberia who

graduated the online training program in January. We had the

opportunity to meet with the graduates and also conduct a lunch and

learn on electrical troubleshooting. This included the graduates and

Mantrac technicians covering troubleshooting topics.

Submit questions or story ideas to: kirgan_toby_a@cat.com

Technicians for Africa Website : CLICK HERE

Technicians for Africa on DEALER.CAT.COM CLICK HERE

Technicians for Africa is helping your community create tomorrows technicians. Let's work together!

6 students completed the training in Liberia. Of the six students:

• One student was hired

• One student has been enrolled as an intern