Dr. Adora Obi Nweze, NAACP Florida State Conference President and NAACP National Board of Directors, moved members of FAWCO and FAUSA with her talk about book banning laws in Florida and other states, which amount to a war on diversity. Dr. Nweze spoke of the laws and their devastating impact on children’s rights to a proper education, particularly those from...
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By Karen Castellon, FAUSA, AWC Berlin, AW Aquitane, Marelie Manders, Heidelberg IWC, and Mary Adams, AWC The Hague
The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence was launched in 1991 by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA. At the time of publication of this article in October 2023, the Center is no...
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by Tharien van Eck, AWC Antwerp, Health Team Co-Chair Co-Chair, and member of the FAWCO Elder Care WhatsApp group
My inspiration for this checklist came from an article describing various aspects to consider when planning or adjusting space for the elderly, or perhaps for ourselves as we become older. I found more information in a few other articles, and...
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by Susan Alexander, AWC Bern
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals were established in 2015 as part of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; the world is now at the halfway point to reaching those goals. How are we doing, in terms of reaching the goals on time?
It depends on who you ask.
Events in the last...
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by Peninah Nthenya Musyimi, Executive Director of Safe Spaces, and Leslie Janoe, AWC Amsterdam
One of the beautiful things about FAWCO’s Target Project, Awesome Blossoms, is that the profits from its hydroponic urban farms will go to support Safe Spaces’ girls’ education and empowerment programs in Nairobi, Kenya.
In this article, Peninah Nthenya Musyimi, Safe Spaces Executive Director, and...
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Everyone, Everywhere, All Together!
What an incredible time we had together – even the brutal Scottish rain couldn’t stop us! AWC Central Scotland came through once again with a little help from our friend Margie O’Rourke from AWC Dublin, who was right there with us making sure everything went smoothly. We had our welcome wagon out Friday night at the...
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Nancy Lynner, AWC Central Scotland and Education Team member
A Short Report on a Long and Fabulous Book
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver is the winner of the 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction and the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (shared with Trust by Hernan Diaz).
The book is structured like Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield and Kingsolver uses that...
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by Hollie Nielsen, AWC Central Scotland and Carol-Lyn McKelvey, FAUSA/AIWC Cologne
For the seventh year in a row, the Education Team honored International Literacy Day by suggesting a FAWCO summer read tied to literacy, followed with an event on or near September 8. This year's event, however, came with a twist: a partnership with AWC London, whose membership has...
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by Adrianne Lind, American Women’s Club in Gothenburg and American International Club in Malmö
It turns out that my Daddy was not the first man to live forever. The inevitable day arrived in 2021 when I would wake up with a father and go to bed a fatherless child. My beloved 95-year-old father would take his last breath. Our...
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by Karen Boeker, AWC Denmark
“Chemistry is change and change is the core of your belief system. Which is good because that’s what we need more of – people who refuse to accept the status quo, who aren’t afraid to take on the unacceptable.” – Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry
In FAWCO, you’ll find people who are fearless in tackling unacceptable issues in...
