Over the last few months, we at Operation Mercy Tajikistan invited our staff to Dushanbe for two training events.

Personnel from our three branch offices Dushanbe, Khujand and Khorog;

• Became acquainted or reacquainted with each other

• Used new project-planning and problem-solving tools to address real issues

• Explored personal learning styles

• Joined one of these learning tracks: Orientation to Working in Operation Mercy; Development, Community and Operation Mercy's Role; Poverty As a Cross-Cutting Issue; Logframe and Results-Based Budgeting; Case Study: Setting Up a Local NGO

• Gained management skills and a deeper understanding of human nature from Arley Loewen PhD, a recognized leadership trainer in the Persian perspective; and Amir.Gh.Zardouz, Office Manager, and Azadeh Bahramji, Women and Youth Empowerment Project Manager, from Operation Mercy, Iran

The training days really helped to bring us together as a larger organisation. I had the feeling we were one big family!