Women leaders
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December 3, 2017

Women leaders

Galina Sotirova (right), Country Manager, World Bank, in discussion with (from left) Geraldine Allen, Principal, Mico Practising & Junior High; Lezanne Azan, Advocacy & Health Committee Chair, Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI), and Chorvelle Johnson, WLI Chair, at the WLI-hosted child sexual abuse prevention workshop on November 22 at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel. Sotirova was guest speaker at the opening ceremony. (Photo: Garfield Robinson)

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