Congratulations from WASLI to WFDB: Geir Jensen from Norway is the new president of the World Federation of the DeafBlind (WFDB). Delegates with deafblindness from more than 30 countries were present at the WFDB 4th General Assembly and the 10th Helen Keller World Conference (HKWC) in Tagatay, just outside Manila, in the Philippines, from the 6th to the 11th November 2013. During WFDBs 4th General Assembly held on Monday, November 11th, Geir Jensen from Norway was elected as the new President of WFDB. Sonnia Margarita Villacrés from Ecuador was elected Vice-President. Akiko Fukuda from Japan was elected Secretary General, and Christer Nilsson from Sweden was elected Treasurer. Regional representatives to the WFDB Executive Committee were also elected during the General Assembly. From Africa: Ezekiel Kumwenda, Malawi. From Asia: Satoshi Fukushima, Japan. From Latin America: Carlos Jorge Wildhagen Rodrigues, Brasil. From North America: Christopher Woodfill, USA. From the Pacific: Irene McMinn, Australia. Contact details: President Geir Jensen; email: geir.jensen@xxxxxxx .................................................... Disclaimer: Dbaust is a free community service. While reasonable efforts are taken to ensure that messages are accurate and appropriate in scope, the moderators are unable to take any responsibility for the actual content of posts from members or for the actions of list members. To Leave dbaust, send an email to: dbaust-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx With "unsubscribe" in the subject or body of the message (without the quotes). Use "subscribe" instead if you want to re-subscribe to Dbaust. To post to vip-l, send email to: dbaust@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Replies to emails on this list will go to the origional sender by default.