Paula recently returned to the Asian country where she works in a hospital. It took a month from leaving her home in Invercargill till she was able to start work as a doctor. Returning is always fraught with the possibility of not being granted either a visa or a permit to practice medicine.
After many years living and working in the Philippines, our partner Joanne is fluent in the Tagalog language, her abilities extending far beyond customary greetings such as ‘Mabuhay’. Jo had already spent eight years in the Philippines in the 1990s before she joined the staff of SIM eight years ago in the role
We live in increasingly complex times in which SIM partners, leaders and governing bodies are constantly challenged to re-examine ways which have helped us in the past to understand and respond to our world. How can SIM more effectively embrace and be strengthened by diversity? How can we empower each partner to contribute
