The Executive Director is away at the moment; please call back in TWO MONTHS

If you call UNICEF in Iceland and ask for the Executive Director you are very likely to get this answer. I have been working as the Executive Director of UNICEF in Iceland, or the National Committee for UNICEF since it was founded in March 2004. It has been a great privilege and honor to take part in this work and it is hard to think of a nicer job to have.

We have gotten a lot of support and have been able to raise funds for many great projects for children (you can find our annual reports for 2004 and 2005 here http://www.unicef.is/um/index_535.htm). But what I am most grateful for is the fact that my co-workers and my board of directors have been very understanding and supportive of my spiritual practice. This means that I am able to get unpaid leave for two months to practice my meditation and spend time with me teacher Sri Chinmoy. For this I am very, VERY grateful.

Now, who can ask for a better setup? For ten moths of the year I work for the world’s greatest children’s organization, UNICEF and for two months of the year I retreat whit my spiritual teachers Sri Chinmoy and my friends from the meditation group. Life is good.

PS: I’ll be back at my desk in the last week of February if anyone asks.