Sife Esen

Sife Esen is the SIFE team of the Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios (El Salvador). For more information, visit http://www.esen.edu.sv/

It was founded by a group of economics students in 2005. Since its foundation, the SIFE team has carried out several projects to help Salvadoran communities in need. This is a "process of social responsibility" through which students can learn about this necessary aspect of corporate life, which serves as work experience before getting their degree and venturing into a job environment. For more information, please visit http://www.sife.org/

Sife Esen has worked in many fields and continues to do so. Among these are the gathering of necessities and cleaning products for an orphanage, as well as providing basic finance education to communities neighboring the university campus.

Active projects

Currently, Sife Esen is working in Canton El Chaquiton, a rural community. Here workshops on handcrafted flower making, baking, English, and entrepreneurship are being imparted. Sife Esen has been assisting this community for six months. During this time, 27 members have been involved, positively influencing the lives of approximately 75 inhabitants of Canton El Chaquiton. Since the Canton is so isolated, it is in great need of new businesses - hence the challenge faced by Sife Esen to effectively help the community. It's worthy mentioning that the Canton is locate in El Salvador's coastal region (approximately one kilometer from the Pacific shore), in an area with a vast wealth of environmental resources. Therefore, tourism emerges as a priority sphere of activity to be encouraged by Sife Esen.

Structure

President: Federico Navarro

The President regulates the following departments

Public Relations: Hugo Orestes Vasquez

Project Coordination: Aldo Salandra

Finances: Maria Luisa Quintanilla

Monetary Collection: Mariel Zaldana

Human Resources: Camila Galicia

Research and Development: Camila Minero.

Recent competition results

SIFE World Cups

New York City 2007

SIFE-ESEN participated in a SIFE World Cup for the first time in 2007 in New York City. The team was seeded in League 8 along with Morocco, Kenya and Slovenia. The team did not qualify to the second round, but won a Spirit Award for its participation.

SIFE Nationals

Managua 2008

Coming in as current champions, SIFE-ESEN arrived to Managua in hope to obtain a back-to-back championship. Unfortunately, the team placed second, just below the Universidad de El Salvador team (SIFE-UES). Fellow competitors were: SIFE-UES, SIFE-Matias and SIFE-UFG.

San Salvador 2007

After 3 national competitions, SIFE-ESEN obtained its first national championship and with it the qualification to its first world cup. Fellow participants were: SIFE-UES (defending back-to-back champions) and SIFE-UFG.

SIFE-ESEN participated in the regional championship but lost to the Universidad Francisco Marroquin team.