raymondgijsen

I'm a Dutch self-employed editor and translator, and previously worked as a journalist and editor with a firm of management consultants. I was involved in launcing the Netherlands' chapter of Ashoka, Innovators for the Public (www.ashoka.org) in the 1990s and these days devote much of my spare time to supporting a movement of school-based changemakers across Eastern Europe and the Balkans co-spearheaded by Poland's Educational Society of Malopolska (MTO -- www.mto.org.pl). I am a historian by training, and married to a lawyer-journalist. We have one son, auspiciously born in the year the Berlin Wall came down. The picture shows me eating borsjt in the kitchen of my hosts' appartment in Cahul, in the south of the Republic of Moldova, during a one-month stay there in June 2005 to familiarize myself with local conditions and improve my spoken Russian. Should you ever visit Cahul, do check out the local museum!!