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Jamilya Jusaeva, Operations Manager, UNICEF Kyrgyzstan

 Tell us a bit about your background. 

I am of Kyrgyz nationality, I was born in the green city of Frunze, which was renamed Bishkek after the collapse of the Soviet Union and Kyrgyzstan’s declaration of independence in 1991. I have two diplomas in the area of Linguistics and the Management of the Organization. I grew up in the Soviet era, and being an active member of the Soviet Young Pioneer Organization, I strongly believed in the unbreakable rules of equity, goodness, peace and equality that were the strong tools of the Soviet propaganda. I cried when Indira Gandhi was shot dead, and I strongly believed and I still do in the victory of good over evil.