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["Frank Imhoff" <FRANKI@elca.org>]

Former LWF Deputy General Secretary Ucko to Work with Global
Network for Children

GENEVA, 7 March 2003 (LWI) - Former Lutheran World Federation
(LWF) Deputy General Secretary, Ms Agneta Ucko, took up a new
position with an interreligious children's aid organization
beginning in February. She is director of the Geneva office of the
"Global Network of Religions for Children" which is being
established in Switzerland. The network was launched by a
Japanese-Buddhist Foundation with headquarters in Tokyo. The
Geneva office is intended to build up closer ties with United
Nations organizations and European Union institutions.

Ucko, LWF Deputy General Secretary since 1996, was responsible,
among other things, for the planning and management of LWF Council
meetings. On the staff of the LWF since 1991, she was formerly
executive Secretary for Human Resources Development in the
Department for Mission and Development. During 1994, she assumed
responsibility for the whole department for several months.

 From Sweden, Ucko, 54, has a Masters Degree in Theology from the
University of Lund, and studied International Relations and
Organizational Development as a postgraduate. She was a teacher in
as director of a Swedish Red Cross Refugee Center.
the preparation of deacons in the Church of Sweden, and has served

A member of the Church of Sweden, Ucko is married and has three
grown-up children.

(The LWF is a global communion of Christian churches in the
Lutheran tradition. Founded in 1947 in Lund (Sweden), the LWF now
has 136 member churches in 76 countries representing over 61.7
million of the 65.4 million Lutherans worldwide. The LWF acts on
behalf of its member churches in areas of common interest such as
ecumenical relations, theology, humanitarian assistance, human
rights, communication, and the various aspects of mission and
development work. Its secretariat is located in Geneva,
Switzerland.)

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