March 8th was the International Women’s Day. To celebrate this the ITF Women Committee is organizing a World Conference on March 13th and 14th, with 8 female speakers, 8 different topics spread over the 2 days. The conferences are open to all ITF members, limited to 1000 members a day.
On both days Master Annick Van Driessche, as board member and liaison of the Women Committee, will give an opening speech.
Saturday February 20th, 16.00h
At the General Assembly of January 24th some instructors ITF-Belgium pointed out to be interested in having a meeting with Rudi Van Hecke, responsible for the ITF-Belgium PR & Communications.
The meeting was scheduled for this Saturday; it was very constructive and a lot of new ideas came up.
Sunday January 24th 2021
Every year the General Assembly takes place in January, also in 2021. For the first time in 31 years however, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it was organized through digital platforms (Zoom).
Ths Sunday morning 32 participants logged in to the meeting. Besides the yearly legal matters on the agenda e.g. a forecast of 2021 and an evaluation of 2020.
Although we’re facing restrictions, the board, the committees and the instructors are working hard for the members ITF-Belgium. There’re a lot of plans, the situation will decide if they will be executed ‘in live’ or through digital means. For the last couple of months we all showed and proved to be flexible, ready to switch from one channel to another on short terms, using all of the tenets of Taekwon-Do.
The Tournament & Umpire Committee has meetings on regular basis. Now gathering and having face-to-face meetings is not possible, the members of the committee are having these meetings through Zoom. Also in times of Covid-19 and during lockdown, the TUC is working hard for the members of ITF-Belgium.
