I’ve been at my work Concern Universal (or ‘Concern’) for almost two weeks now. It is an incredible organisation which seems to have achieved so much since starting in Bangladesh in 1993 (head office is UK, they have chapters in 12 countries). They use a strong community empowerment ethic which translates into working with a range of local organisations to build up their capacity to serve their community better – trainings on climate change, disaster management, resource capacity building and so forth. In the main project I'm working on, there are 67 different partner organisations 57 in Bangladesh and 5 each in India and Nepal. Every one has a different acronym...!
During the time so far I’ve been doing mostly reading of reports and other 'desk research' – internal ones to try to find out what other staff are actually doing, and external docs relating to climate change issues and adaptation practices.
The staff are friendly and luckily for me they speak English well. Quite a few of them sing well too – both my female co-workers have beautiful voices that they spontaneous burst into song with from time to time.
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