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The Elimination of Cervical Cancer

by Christine Riney, AWC Hamburg, AWC London & FAWCO Health Co-Chair

In November 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) brought about the first-ever global commitment to eliminate a cancer: cervical cancer. You can read the full details in this article

The thought that we can be free of cervical cancer in the foreseeable future is astounding. This gives me pause...

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Celebrating Nurses: 2020 International Year of the Nurse and Midwife

Florence Nightingale“Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the...

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Advance Care Planning and Caregiving Resources

by Rozanne Van Rie, AWC Antwerp and FAWCO VP Member Clubs

Advance Care Planning 

We have a huge opportunity!

Through conversations, we can transform the possibilities for the last chapters of our lives...

Not just our own, but for our loved ones, whether they are living in the next city or – as is often the case for expat women – across an ocean!

 

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Grandmother Power: Improving Mental Health One Conversation at at Time

by Danielle Kuznetsov, AWO Moscow & Health Team Co-Chair

One hundred years have seemed to go by since I wrote this article in September 2019. COVID-19 has completely changed the world, how we live, and how we go about our business. 

This article highlights the work of the Friendship Bench in Zimbabwe and the positive effect grassroots mental health endeavors...

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World Teachers’ Day

by Devinder Buttar, AWC London

 

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World Teachers’ Day was launched by UNESCO on October 5, 1994 to commemorate the anniversary of the signing of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers. World Teachers’ Day 2020 is being observed with the theme “Teachers: Leadership in Crisis, Reimagining the Future.” World Teachers’ Day is celebrated with enthusiasm around the globe, with...

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The Checklist

by Robynne Pendariès, AAWE Paris

“Marry me, Robynne!” That was my favorite response from the FAWCO workshop last week called “Checklist to Complete Long before You Need It.” I created this document in response to an American friend whose French husband passed away suddenly, leaving her not only to manage the shock, but also to find all the needed life...

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