Linda Germanis

Linda Germanis is an Italian international United Nations Volunteer, economist and an author. She is a certified yoga teacher, founder of YOGA FUSION and current head of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) Programme in Bangladesh.

Contribution

From 2009 to 2010, she was a Consultant at UNESCO Bangkok and Project coordinator at UNV Thailand . From August 2011 to December 2013, she was a Development Economist at UNV/UNDP (Micronesia). From 2014 she is the Head (Programme Ofiicer) of the UNV Bangladesh . It's a program that advocates for volunteerism and social cohesion as a common good creating social justice starting from individual choices. On 27 March 2015; she published a yoga training book .

Awards In 2009, she was awarded "the Outstanding Volunteer Award 2009" by the Thai Ministry of Social Development and Human Security for her photography project . This project wins 2nd prize at UNV IVD competition .

Work Cultivating Peace: Contexts, Practices and Multidimensional Models, Heals over Head: Yoga & Yap healed Me. Who heals War?