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Hold the vision,   Trust the process With Every Difficulty Comes Relief FROM 1994 TO 1996, I made bimonthly 12-hour road trips from Medan city to the rural mountain town of Blangkejeren in Aceh, Indonesia. Due to  its cool, alpine-like 1200 metres high elevation, it earned  the name  "Mont Blang" as a pun on Mont Blanc ,   the highest mountain in the Alps. The two who usually travelled with me were Hamzah Mutalib, Managing Director of Global Impact Singapore,  then in his early forties; and Idris Darga, Chairman of a rural development NGO in his mid-thirties, whose hometown  was our destination.  We would pass through the jungles of Gunung Leuser National Park where  we often encountered checkpoints manned by government soldiers looking out for GAM insurgents.  Gerakan Aceh Merdeka  (GAM)  or the  Free Aceh Movement  was a separatist movement that fought against Indonesian government forces in the Aceh Insurgency...

Better Men,  Better Families ON 20 JANUARY 2021, the We Are Dads Too* podcast started its first episode,  Papa, Don't Teach . Despite having zero knowledge about podcasting until I attended a course just two months before, we managed to hit the goal of releasing fifty-two episodes in a year. How did we do it?  The following are six questions forming the acronym GROWTH that guided us. 1. What do we need to achieve? (Goals) Before setting the goal, we made clear that our mission was to reach out and inspire more fathers to take action to be the best dad they can be. We believe that fathers face a multitude of problems due to a lack of resilience, not physically but rather mentally and emotionally. We gathered a few friends who all happened to be educators and mostly parents themselves, to brainstorm the issues surrounding fatherhood and suggest what fathers need to know to improve themselves. I must say that without them volunteering and supporting us at the beginning, the...