A YEAR INTO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, WPM CARVED OUT ITS OWN PATH AND ITS WAY OF WORKING.
This taught us that our resilience is our most powerful strength and that we are a creative, innovative, and uniquely human force for peace and gender equality!
Although Covid-19 had already hit the world hard during the previous year, 2021 was the year it truly arrived in Cambodia and affected every community and every individual personally. The first death from COVID in Cambodia was March 2021 and the first lockdown began in April. As we dealt with the shock of its onslaught in February, we had to learn how to proactively protect ourselves while mourning our losses. From moving work online, to finding ways to connect with our communities offline, WPM leveraged its skills in outreach and increased its capacity in new ways to communicate. With the arrival of Delta and finishing the end of the year with Omicron, WPM navigated Covid-19 and its variant outbreaks with the same values and human characteristics that have defined us for nearly two decades!
Click here to read the WPM Annual Report 2021.
