Dear Members and Friends,
Greetings of the New Year.
Reflecting on our work in 2005, we at the GAATW International Secretariat feel really happy. Everything that was planned for 2005 in consultation with the member organisations have been carried out well. As you all know, we worked with a very small team of only 5 women in this office. However, we are grateful to our member organisations, the members of our international board, our working group and many other friends for their support and encouragement. Without your help, completion of the planned tasks would have been impossible.
We have begun the new year with renewed enthusiasm and determination and hope to get your support during this year too. Just a week before we closed for X’mas last year, the hardware of our server which supports the website had crashed so for a few weeks it was not accessible. It has been fixed now and we will soon start doing the updates for this year. You may recall that we had invited applications for programme and communications positions at the Secretariat. We are happy to inform you that the recruitment process is drawing to a close and we will have new colleagues with us very soon; in February 3 new friends will be with us. By May we will have the full team and the regional and thematic work can be done in a satisfactory manner.