Working in WHO

Having a year work experience in WHO is the prestigous thing that I ever had in my life. It is the one of International NGOs which work in health related area in the world. When my first step walk in Bina Mulia Building I floor 7, it was very exciting and also unbelieveble. I looked backward in the history of this. Dr Adi Utarini was the key person who gave me chance to apply a vacancy offered by WHO. She recommended me to send a CV and related documents ASAP. Only in a night I discussed this with my beloved husband for getting his support before I decided to try it. In a day as well, WHO rang me up invited me to attend the interview in Jakarta. Suddenly, my life became messy, because I have to consider that I still have a one year daughter and husband worked in Yogya. But I have to be responsible with my decision, I gone through the panel interview in Wednesday, 12 December 2006. There were 4 candidates interviewed by 3 interviewers (dr Firdosi, Petra dan dr Franky) and I was the youngest both in age and experiences. Most of them had more than 3 years experience in TB related area. But lucky me I was choosen as Research Assistant for TB Program in WHO.

I moved to metropolitan city, Jakarta with my beautiful daughter and temporarily separated with my husband. My husband got a fellowship for 9 months in Australia and New York... so we were really separated :)

Become one of TB Team WHO is my fortune, they just like my family... Mbak Nelsy, Mas Erwin, Mbak Candy, Pak Franky, Pak Servas, Bu Sri, Bu Din, Pak Ribi, Bu Rien and Pak Firdosi... We work together, I learnt many things from them both in public health area and life experiences.

The most important thing highlighted is I also learn about administration and financing that I never learnt before. From my experience, the weakness of the system in WHO is there are no clear regulation in administration and budget for implementer like me. It caused many headaches unrelatted with my profesionalism. Nobody perfect, including WHO... whatever it is, I will never forgot my TB family :) Miss U guys.... Hope I will comeback someday....