Hi everybody! Welcome to this beautiful community!

I am more than happy to see this beautiful group! I could not resist the temptation of dropping by to tell you how great the experience of the first Voices of the Future has been last year.

I see there are many new faces in the community and this makes me proud that we are reaching more and more countries to raise our voices louder. I also see some familiar names, acquaintances that have been around for at least a year, who share the beauty of making new friendships around the world with me.

The most exciting thing about the first VOF Program has indeed been the way we have been able to relate to each other as a community, showing off the pride of working together, shaking off our self centered minds to focus in a single goal: raise our voices to let the world know that we exist, that we mean what we say, that we are eager to make women be heard, be opinionated, be equal partners not only in sorrow, but especially in wealth, happiness and goal reaching.

I can only thank World Pulse for giving us all the opportunity to become friends. It is amazing how much I know now about different ways of life around the world, about cities I had no idea existed, about how girls are treated in far away places. It is like I live in these places, through the heartwarming contact with so many correspondents around the world.

So, not to tire you out, I will just say WELCOME! from the bottom of my heart, and may the year ahead be as rich and wonderful for you as it has been for me, or maybe even a lot more!!

Hugs from Tarija The Beautiful, a very small city in the southern border of Bolivia, where people may not be rich in money, but are certainly wealthy in love and laughter.

Love,

Jackie