Wow, now that the official announcement of the voting results has been released on behalf of the WIMA International Council of National Presidents and they have elected me to be International President for the next 3 years, I can thank you all for placing your confidence and trust in me.
Thank you also to all the many members from WIMA GB and other national divisions who have sent me your support and best wishes during the election period.
Now the hard work begins – and I hope, lots of fun and good times for all of us.
WIMA now has 36 national divisions and about 3,000 members and what came through very strongly in the interview questions were two key themes for me to start work on –
· Why should ordinary members join WIMA – what is in it for you?
· How will I connect members from Asia (and Africa & the Americas) with the rest of the WIMA Community?
I am also so pleased that joining the team of dedicated International Officers is International Vice President Mihaela Hodivoianu and Public Relations Officers Liv Seuring and Léa Schaetzlé. I have worked closely with Mihaela over the past few years on constitutional matters, I have great respect for her work for WIMA International and WIMA Romania. Liv and Léa from WIMA Germany and WIMA France respectively have been friends of mine for several years and come with lots of new ideas. They join an established team of WIMA International Officers who are all dedicated to supporting the whole Association and each other and which I have been proud to have been a part of for the past 3 years as International Vice President.
Once I get my breath back, it will be down to work for the next three years
Thank you all so much.
Zara
Month: October 2020
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A Short Message from new IP Zara Strange
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Meet our new WIMA World officers
I’m honoured to be able to introduce our new WIMA World officers:
International President Zara Strange:
Zara has served the past 3 years as International Vice-President and during this time she took sole responsibility for organising the agenda and minutes of the ICNP meetings. In addition, she organised all our old agenda records, minutes and other archived documents that my predecessor, Claudia Fehrer, handed over. It is all nice and tidy on WIMA’s cloud space, available to all National Presidents. Her contributions to our meetings and discussions, and her advice, have been invaluable. Those who know Zara will know that she has a warm heart, a clear head, and is dedicated to WIMA and women’s motorcycling – it’s no surprise that she was recognised with the Ellen Pfeiffer Award a couple of years back. I know that she will lead us well and I’m excited about WIMA’s future!
International Vice-President Mihaela Hodivoianu:
Mihaela is the founder of WIMA Romania, one of our younger divisions at only 3 years old, but already thriving, well-established and extremely active with get-togethers and projects running throughout the year. Mihaela has also dedicated a great length of time to the difficult task of updating our constitution. We are delighted to have such an energetic and skilled woman as IVP.
PR Officer Liv Seuring:
Liv is known from her role as an admin in the WRWR, an achievement for which we awarded her honorary lifetime membership in WIMA. Among other things, she was working with PR and she has lots of ideas to take with her to her new role in WIMA. We are thrilled to have someone with her experience and skillset in our team!
PR Officer Léa Schaetzlé:
Léa is one of our newer members and fully passionate about WIMA. She works with PR professionally and she is multi lingual – we look forward to seeing her working with Liv in what is a fast-moving and challenging area.
Onwards and upwards,
Åsa, former IP, now “just” a member 🙂
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WIMA Norway in Straand
Straand hotel in Vrådal hosts a bike meet, where everything motorcycle related is in focus!
Here, people in the motorcycle community, who are doing something exciting and interesting, get the opportunity to introduce themselves and their project.
WIMA Norway gave a talk and participated in the debate this year, as last year. This time also with our own tent. It was fantastic that so many people stopped by and new women found us and joined our group. Great to chat with WIMA girls from all over the country! Especially; great that the t-shirts got legs to walk on, WIMA’s logo is on the move 🙂!Straand hotell i Vrådal huser MC-folkets treff, hvor faglig innhold, prøvekjøring, hubriding o.l. er i fokus.
Her får personer innen MC-miljøet, som holder på med noe spennende og interessant, muligheten til å presentere seg og sitt.
WIMA holdt foredrag og deltok i debatten i år, som i fjor. Denne gangen også med eget telt. Fantastisk gøy at så mange var innom. Knallkjekt å få pratet med WIMA-jenter fra hele landet! Ikke minst; supert at t-skjortene fikk ben å gå på. Nå synes vi godt i terrenget, dere
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The WIMA stall – the t-shirts are popular, no doubt due to the cool brand new logo!
WIMA had an opportunity to formally talk and get their message across to the audience. WIMA Norway is offering a broad activity calendar covering track days, first aid, gravel training, mechanical training etc. And they have established riding groups all over the country. A key to success it seems as they have now exceeded 300 members, and more are signing up.
Not everyone stayed in the hotell, camping was also an option.
Time to leave, Eli and brand new meber Barbro is packing their bikes.