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From April 19 to 21, 2021, about 100 media professionals from the Seventh-day Adventist Church across Europe met for the annual Global Adventist Internet Network (GAiN) Europe meeting, which was held online due to pandemic-related restrictions. This year, some participants also joined from Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
GAiN 2021was organized jointly by the communication departments of the two European divisions of the Adventist Church. Co-organizers Corrado Cozzi and Victor Hulbert, Inter-European Division (EUD) and Trans-European Division (TED) communications directors respectively, stressed the importance of spreading hope and peace through church communication.
Keynote Message and Workshops
In a keynote speech, Costin Jordache, vice president of public relations at U.S.-based Adventist HealthCare, reminded communicators of four fundamental aspects of this new digital age: speed, concision, exchange, and transparency
at Waldfriede Hospital in Berlin, Germany. Since its opening in 2013, more than 600 women affected by FGM have sought the center’s medical help. The interview has been slightly condensed. Editors
What do you think are the most important actions to achieve the goal (zero tolerance) of this day? Apart from the professional help you give, what can we do as individuals to end FGM?
The most important measure in the fight against FGM is widespread education and schooling of children, locally, in their home countries. In general, the public should be sensitized to the issue, information on FGM should be bundled and further developed on an interdisciplinary basis, and professional competencies should be strengthened. Thus, in 2020, we founded the “Berlin FGM C Coordination Office.” This is a cooperation of three organizations: the family planning center BALANCE, Terre des Femmes, and the Desert Flower Center at the Waldfriede Hospital. The coordination office aims to link the exis