Inspiring Women SUMMER 2020

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The Profiles 2 Inspiration in This Issue The COVID-19 Issue 4 Sewing Masks in Germany 5 A Pandemic Presidency in Paris 11 Team Event Planning Swiss Style 19 Scientific Expertise Informs from Belgium 24 Taking it to the Bank for The Foundation 28 Creating Calm with an App in Colombia 41 Supplying the Frontline in Holland 47 “Zooming” to Zen in Switzerland 54 “Quaranteaching” in Germany 59 Three “Mask-eters” from France 66 Converting a Club’s Calendar in London 72 Update from Bangladesh 74 Update from Moscow 78 In Every Issue Inspiration From the Editor 3 Inspiring You 82 Magazine Survey 82 More About This Issue 83 Our Features Advertisers Index Janet Darrow p. 50 La Grenadine p. 62 London & Capital p. 8 The Pajama Company p. 43 We’re Going On A Bear Hunt 9 Education in Corona Times 14 Lightning Round 1 18 A Different Trip Home 22 A Club Inspires: AWC Oslo 31 Lightning Round 2 34 In The Name of Your Daughter 35 Boarding Now 39 Could an Apple a Day Really Keep the Doctor Away? Our advertisers are offering pandemic relevant goods and services to our readers. London& Capital (pg. 8) has suggestions for keeping your finances safe. Janet Darrow (pg. 50) has adapted practices for home buying and selling in a COVID-19 world. The Pajama Company (pg. 43) has fashionable “shelter in place” attire available online. When you’re ready, La Grenadine (pg. 62) is the perfect place to recover from post-pandemic stress. FAWCO club members - do you want to take your business worldwide? Consider advertising in Inspiring Women. Contact Elsie Bose at advertising@fawco.org to get started. We offer great rates and comprehensive packages for almost any budget. 44 Lightning Round 3 48 Americans Voting Overseas: Ready? 49 Behind the Glass 51 Coping During the Pandemic 57 The FAWCO Cookbook 58 Lightning Round 4 63 Stranded in New Zealand 64 The AAWE Phone Tree 69 Military Deployment as Preparation? 70 Ways You Can Help During the Pandemic 75 Lightning Round 5 77 The Survivors 80
Inspiration From the Editor This is not exactly the issue that our t e a m h a d originally planned. But then 2020 is not looking like anything anyone I know planned thanks to the entry of some new words into our vocabulary: COVID-19, lockdown, social distancing, and so on! But the ‘show must go on’ so here you are, a bumper issue of profiles and features to help you while away some of the hours until life returns to (what I suspect might be our new) normal. I would really appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to complete our READER SURVEY, specifically about the balance between feature articles and member profiles. As well as the magazine having changed slightly, our team make up, has too. Marie- Bénédicte, our Cover Coordinator, decided she didn’t have enough hours in the day for everything, which is something many of us can relate to I am sure. We are very sad to lose her. I would like to take this chance to officially thank her for her help and support as we have taken Inspiring Women from the earliest days to what it is today. Her Gallic wit, good humor, sound advice and brilliance will be missed by the team. Liz x Liz MacNiven, inspiringwomen.editor@fawco.org The Cover Photo The cover photo for this issue is an image taken by Brigitte Meuwissen of Celeste Bennekers (AWC Antwerp) and her family. We asked Celeste what she was laughing about in the photo: I'm unpacking the boxes in my children's loft - we had just moved into a new house the day before the lock-down. The movers had told me that morning, they had a friend with the police and that he said it would be their last day working for a while, and boy were they right. Noon the next day, and the country of Belgium came to a halt. And here I was, locked in a strange house with three kids and boxes everywhere. My phone pings as I attempt to organize LEGOs, stuffed animals, and books. "I'm going to be in your neighborhood, taking photos behind glass for a project, are you at home?" It's my friend and fellow board member, Brigitte! A message from the outside world! I emerge from my unpacking project like gasping for air while drowning. "Yes, we are but I'm a mess. I'm unpacking and I'm in yoga pants, my hair is in a ponytail and I have barely any make-up on," I type. "That's perfect," she responds. So the doorbell rings and my children, who are already bouncing off walls, start bouncing off the ceiling, too. I raise the sheer curtain and they pile onto the couch. My world - inside and out has been turned upside down. But yet, here are my children, my rocks, climbing over each other, yelling for sunglasses, and squeezing into the frame of the window to get a better view of Brigitte. Standing outside in the sun with her mask on, she laughs at the mania before her, and directs us. And then the dog wants to join in on the fun. She's climbing on the couch and although you can't see her in this photo, she, too, is in the middle of this hurricane of mania and I just have to laugh. Yes, Brigitte and FAWCO, this is my world in the Time of Coronavirus - full of energy, laughter and a little bit crazy. Documented for all to see. Thank you for the opportunity to share! If you have a photo that you would like to see on a future cover of Inspiring Women, please send it in to us. There are full details of the photo requirements on page 84 of this magazine. Please note: we can only accept portrait orientation images. 3
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