Special Announcement
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Highlights
Dual Career Challenge—Members' Stories
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We asked two spouses, Isabel and Dustin to share their stories of how they have managed the dual career challenge as they relocate with their staff spouses to the various World Bank Country Offices.
WBGFN - Welcoming at HQ (Washington DC)
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Over the past two years, the WBG Family Network has welcomed 162 new members to the Washington DC area. Unlike the pre-COVID era, many of them were not even in the United States...
Shakespeare, Molière & WBGFN
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Let’s go back to where the story began. With the rapid expansion of the World Bank in the late 60’s, also came about poignant stories of bank families facing difficult resettlements.
Whose Career – Yours, Mine or Ours?
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Whose career – yours, mine or ours? is a fundamental question that every dual career couple needs to answer.
WBGFN Response to the Covid-19 Crisis in India
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In May 2021 headlines around the world were highlighting the Covid-19 crisis in India. The WBG had to think about the welfare of thousands of staff and family members who had returned to India
Meet Laurence Telson—Coordinator for DAPP
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I am honored to continue the legacy of the DAPP. My role as DAPP Coordinator is the cumulative of the experienced I have acquired professionally and in quasi-professional moments.
Working as a Team Even When One is Away
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No decision to move away from family, friends, career is ever taken lightly. However, the reality of our choices often feels like it’s more than we bargained for...
Making a New Place Home
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About 36,000 feet somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, my tears began to flow. I wasn’t surprised....
Does being a third culture kid better equip you…
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An interesting question has come out of Covid times: Are third culture kids (TCKs)—children who accompany parents into another culture due to a parent’s job—better able to cope with the interrupted life situations we have all faced during Covid?