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World Psychiatry 21:1 February 2022 the beginning. The participants were motivated as they had already indicated which topics they were interested in. The trainer also stressed that it was important that he could access support at any time directly from the organizers in Mexico. At the start of the training sessions, the participants and the trainer agreed that they would keep the content of the meetings confidential, in order to give everyone the freedom to communicate freely, especially in case somebody wanted to speak about patient matters. Notwithstanding the great physical distance between Mexico and the Nether lands, there was a sense of closeness, simi larity of experiences, and friendliness. Al t hough the sessions were not videotaped, from anonymous evaluation after the pilot project it emerged that participants would agree that the online training be recorded in the future, so that other people who do not participate in the course can benefit from the recording. The WPA Continuing Professional Development (CPD) certificate was offered to the attendees, all of whom completed each module of the course. A second larger pilot exercise focused on child and adolescent mental health is now planned in Pakistan. The WPA Workgroup on Volunteering welcomes proposals from Member Societies for further train ing projects.