Editorial: We laid the foundation for 2022 to be the year of scaling and impact!

We laid the foundation for 2022 to be the year of scaling and impact!

It is fair to say that 2021 was a trying year for all around the world but despite the challenges this past year has thrown on our way, we have managed to persevere and make progress towards a more inclusive and sustainable world by adequately informing you on news around the world to keep us abreast with happenings. This would not have been possible without the support, cooperation, and ingenuity of our partners in the Netherlands and around the world. If anything, last year has shown us just how much we can achieve together amid trying circumstances and we promise to continue to serve you with our best efforts in all our endeavors We’d like to take a moment to thank you for being part of our network and subscribing to our news magazine and every other channel in the out gone year 2021. Yes it was a tough year but we made it through, just as a community of people but as well as business wise. This year, with the help of our partners, friends, subscribers, readers, we are prepared to serve you even better. Last year we were able to reach more than 1, 7 million readers across the globe. We developed new partnerships and we are looking forward to bigger cooperation. We would like to mention in particular, our dear friend, Marc Broere, the Editor-in-Chief of Vice Versa who started a global initiative to support young African journalists across the continent with flagship of Kenya, Uganda and Ghana as spring board; through these young journalists, each month we receive fresh investigated and well written articles for your reading pleasure. They are operating under the umbrella name – Vice Versa Global (https:// viceversaonline.nl/vice-versa-global/) We have received good comments on our articles and improvement in the style of writing and presentations. We are working also closely in rebranding our online version to make it more attractive and accessible to you the readers. We want your contributions as well in writing your opinion; we want to read from you this new year. We have also been able to provide solutions that have tangible impacts on our readers around the world. As you read about important sector developments in this edition, please reach out to us if you have more questions or ideas how the Voice news magazine can serve you better. To our loyal clients, we say a big thank you and we pray this year would be much better business wise for you all. The Voice Achievers Award 2022 is already being shaped; we shall be hitting The Gambia between July/August 2022. The Voice Achievers Award Banjul 2022 is in the making, just stay tune with us via our magazine or online for details. Your ideas are also welcome on this journey of celebrating our African/ Diaspora success stories. If you’re ready to advance your programmatic goals in 2022, we are ready as well to be at your service. Let us go! Thank you for being a loyal reader. Thank you for our partnership in 2021, and we hope that 2022 brings with it global stability and prosperity so we can continue to make great strides towards our set out objectives and activities for 2022? On behalf of all of us at The Voice publication and the Voice Achievers Award, our mother body, Stichting Paddi Europa, I wish you and your loved ones a very happy and prosperous New Year 2022! Yours in Service, Pastor Amb. Elvis Iruh Editor-in-Chief The Voice News Magazine

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