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A big group of new energetic Danish colleagues, who arrived here on August 1. They will be soon moving to respective partner organizations to serve as Development Workers in different fields. They are now attending the ICOC.

From among the new DWs, Lise Moeller will be working with DCRDC, Baglung as Community Development Training Advisor, while Kim Rud Adamsan will be placed at NEWAH, Nepalgunj as a Hydro-geologist.

Lene B. Olsen, will work with BASE as an information and exchange Advisor. She is accompanied by her husband Tomas naeraa.

Mogens Dahl and Mary Birgitte Aage have been chosen to work as Special Needs Education (SNE) Advisors with the District Education Office, Doti and District Education Office, Dadeldhura respectively. They will be responsible for, among other things, regular inspection and supervision of the programme, formulation of future programme and maintaining co-ordination between special education unit and the district education office.

Josefina, who arrived here in June, has already gone to work with the partner organization NEWAH, Dhangadhi as documentation specialist.

Bente H. Rasmussen, will be contributing 50 percent of her time as information DW to Nepal Press Institute (NPI) and 50 percent to MS Nepal Information and Advocacy Unit. For the time being she will in co-operation with NPI, central office, Kathmandu and the CO lay the groundwork for placement of a full time DW in NPI, Nepalgunj by identifying the areas of partnership activities and developing a plan of action for implementation of the activities.

Henrik Thorsen will be working as building maintenance advisor with DEO, Dadeldhura. His main responsibilities are, among others, supporting establishment of a physical maintenance programme at cluster, VDC and school level where all local partners are involved. He will draw up new programme approaches and activities related to maintenance programme.

Stine Hoier (NEWAH), her husband Maarten Thiels (Seeds Cooperative) and their little daughter Anna. Stine served as sanitation engineer, while Maarten, whose spoken Nepali was near to perfect, worked as forestry engineer. They served in Nepal for about three years.

Rita Tisdal, who worked with BPEP, Kaski and some other local NGOs involved in issues related to special needs education, as special need education advisor for about 3.5 years. She also served as a member of the Disability working group. We also said good bye to her children Theo and Neema.

Palle and Jytte Westh, who were posted to Dhankuta to work as special needs education advisors at District Education office, Dhankuta and Jhapa for about 3.5 years.

Connie Fuglsang and Neils Moeller, who worked with DEO in Kaski as special needs education advisor (Connie) and building maintenance advisor (Neils). Connie also served as a member of the Pluralism working group, while Neils had contributed as a member of the Training group. We said good bye to their daughter Ida also. When Ida spoke Nepali one could be confused whether she is a Danish or a Nepali child.

Our Administrator since 1997, Jonna Rives is leaving us at the end of August to work with the Personnel Department in MS-Denmark. We are sure that Jonna and her husband Patrick will carry with them the warm feelings we shared while working together in Nepal and will allow the sweet memory of Nepal CO and the staff to remain in a corner of their hearts.

Siegfried, our new Administrator arrived here together with the New group of DWs in the beginning of this month. After a week of ICOC Sigi took up his assignment at the CO. He joined MS in 1982 as a staff member in the Development Education section in MS-Denmark, and has already earned valuable experience of working in developing countries. He has already served in Botswana and Kenya in different capacities before coming to Nepal as an administrator. We are looking forward to some exciting years to come. A warm welcome to Sigi and his wife, who is yet to arrive here.