Dear Afsar,

Welcome to Community Life Competence! Could you please add your picture because it adds a human touch to your profile (go to 'settings' then 'upload photo')?

We hope you will enjoy the opportunity to communicate with colleagues and friends in all parts of the world. Please take some time to walk through this virtual Constellation home. You will find many opportunities for connecting, sharing and learning.

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Warm regards,

Laurence

BTW I loved your story of the hot chocolate on your blog :-) Do you also write stories about communities responding to life challenges? Or people discovering their strengths and potential?

Dear Afsar,

A warm welcome! So good to see you hear. Hope you will share your experiences.

Best regards,

Rituu

PS: Please do add your photograph.

Hey Afsar,

I'm with Rituu in Maastricht today :-) She says hi! She is stuck in Europe for a few days already but we are talking care of her.
How is life in Geneva? How was moving there? Are you enjoying it?

Laurence

Dear Afsar,

Greetings from cool, rainy Delhi!

Thanks for your words of encouragement. ILO in India has done fantastic work with truckers. ILO's best practices booklet is a testimony to it. What I really liked was not only the work which you and your team did but how you did it. Instead of merely hiring consultants, ILO team was involved in the entire project from training to documentation.

Hope you can join India and Kenya group and share your experience with us. We are sending some material to the Kenya team. I would love to include the booklet in the package.

Hope you are well settled in Geneva.

Warm regards,

Rituu

Dear Rituu,

Great to hear from you!!! As welcome as rain in Delhi. I will be very happy to participate in discussions. Let me know how can we organise it best.
Please go ahead and send our good practice document. Thanks for your kind comments on this publication.

I will be in VIenna and will be happy to meet you and other members of the community who are there.
warm regards
Afsar