8:30-10:30

Annual General Meeting – 3rd^d Session -Meeting Minutes

Announcements

• Roll call & approval of Minutes 
• Target Program    Clubs on Target (Powerpoint notes) 
  Anne van Oorschot 
• NGO Director Report - Pam Perraud 
• Guest Speaker: Peggy Rigaud  (AWG-LR) 
• Presentation of FAWCO Awards:
  • Circle of Honor Award
  • Caroline Curtis Brown Spirit Award
  • Reps Appreciation Awards 

10:00-10:15

Coffee Break

10:52-12:00

Panel Discussion

Stop the Violence: Ireland!

Moderated by Susan McKay – author and journalist

Sponsored by FAWCO Ending Violence for Women and Children Task Force

• Ivana Bacik  – Prof Law Trinity College, legislator working on laws against sex-traffickers and sex users
• Sarah Benson  – Director, Ruhuma
• Margaret Martins  – Director, Women’s Aide
• Paula Mayock  – Lecturer, Trinity College Dublin
• Ellen OMalley-Dunlop   – CEO, Dublin Rape Crisis Centre

12:00-14:00

Lunch  - Members Showcase

14:00 - 15:15

Workshop 1

Robin Goldsby  - a suitcase full of words: Using Creative Writing to Chase Away Your Expat Blues. 

Speaker: Robin Meloy Goldsby, AIWC Cologne 

Sponsored by the FAWCO Sharing Cultures Task Force

Workshop 2

Topic: No excuses! Breaking down barriers that surround the education of learning differently for people at home and abroad 

Speaker: Susan van Alsenoy, AWC Antwerp, Co-Chair Education Task Force, author of Students who Learn Differently Overseas and Learning Without Borders. Of interest to all learners, not just those who face LD challenges.

Workshop 3

Topic: Americana – American culture for children 

Presenter: Elinor LeBaron, AWA Qatar, Co-Chair

FAWCO Education Task Force – Americana.

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:00

UN NGO Interactive Session

FAWCO on the World Stage 

UN/NGO Issues (Q&A)

This session will bring you up-to-date with the latest issues that affect us as global citizens, as well as FAWCO’s involvement with the United Nations.

Presented and moderated by Pam Perraud, UN NGO Director

19:00

Reception

20:00

FAWCO Foundation dinner, Silent  & Live Auction

Dress: Rainbow color

Free seating