Complaint Letter #3 about AIESEC Kolkata!

First, the accommodation in Kolkata for us is really unacceptable. There were always problems with the toilet, water supply and the door lock. In addition to that, there was no bed in the room so that all the trainees had no choice but to sleep with a mattress on the floor. At the same time, AIESEC Kolkata kept sending new trainees to our flat. They even didn’t care if there were enough room or mattress for us. Because of that, some trainees had to share the mattress and some trainees were sleeping in the living room.

On the other hand, the local AIESEC also didn’t care about trainees’ health. For example, there was a girl from South Korea who once had very serious disease because of the local food or something else. She almost died on her way to hospital. After that, she spent several days in the hospital as Intensive Care Unit but there was nobody from AIESEC Kolkata going to see and take care of her, which made me really angry.

Then, what is the most unbelievable thing that AIESEC Kolkata has done is they are cheating on us. Most of their DT programs have already finished for a long time and they still post these TNs on the AIESEC website. As a result of that, a lot of DTs came to Kolkata and finally found that the project they were supposed to work on never existed. It is same for MTs, too. In my TN job description, it said that there would be a PWC-Global Enterprise Project and we would be trained by people from PWC and finally get the certificate from them. But the truth is there was no Global enterprise project, no training from PWC and of course, no certificate. All of that was a big lie which was used by AIESEC Kolkata to attract more EPs and increase their so-called NUMBERS.

I used to work in Incoming Exchange Department in my LC for one and half years and we never did any of those horrible things to our EPs. What I can say is that in Kolkata, there is no AIESEC spirit at all. I don’t think they really understand the culture of AIESEC and why people join AIESEC. What they care is always numbers, which cannot give any benefit to their members and all the EPs. And if no one can stop them from doing such stupid things in the future, they will just ruin the good reputation and image of whole AIESEC, which costs other AIESECers almost 60 years to build.

I do hope someone in AIESEC International can understand what is happening to AIESEC in India and do something to change it. And if there is anything what I can do to help, please feel free to contact me. Leave a comment at the bottom of this and I will try to get in touch with you.

Regards,

AIESEC China EP