With the Target Program focus shifting to the environment for the next three years, now is the perfect time to increase your environmental arwareness. There is so much to learn and so much you – and your club – can do to make positive changes!  A good place to start (or continue) would be to attend the FAWCO Environment Festival on May...

The Health Team and Paris-based Professional Organizer Robynne Pendariès invite you to come and experience document organization like no other! The Checklist to Complete LONG before You Need It is an interactive, four-session virtual experience that takes your life on paper and creates a one-stop-shop experience to have everything you need at your fingertips in case the unexpected happens. Together, Robynne leads...

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• SDG4

by Hollie Nielsen, AWC Central Scotland 

March is Poetry Month, and the Ed Team encourages you to read some poems this month! In particular, we recommend the poems of  presidential inaugural poet and youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman in her book Call Us What We Carry. Ms. Gorman’s book is especially relevant this month because the Ed Team is focusing on...

by Valerie Garforth, FAUSA

The longer we reuse our stuff, the longer we keep it out of the waste stream. This is a sure way to reduce the amount of trash going into the landfill. “Reuse” is the third in a list of five Rs: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse (Repurpose, Restore, Repair), Recycle, Rot (compost). We have looked at Refuse and...

 compiled by the Education Team 

Click on the links below to see what’s been happening in the world of education this month!

Education Crisis for Girls in Afghanistan

Although parts of this video/article are already outdated, Afghanistan Education Crisis Under the Taliban: Ensuring Access for Woman and Girls from The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security offers recommendations from...

by Nancy Lynner, AWCC Scotland

I began my career as a children’s performer, using mime, juggling, puppets and clowning with various theatre companies. I met my husband, who was also a performer, and we created our own shows for families, schools and performing arts venues. We expanded into sourcing other entertainers and events vendors to create multi-faceted special events. My...

by Karen Castellon, Co-Chair, FAWCO Human Rights Team, AWC Berlin, FAUSA

The Russian invasion of Ukraine that started on February 24 has reached a one-month milestone and continues to rage. It is devastating to add this country to the growing list of war-ravaged places in 2022: Syria, Yemen, Ethiopia, Mali, Myanmar. 

However, the ray of hope and dare I say, sunshine,

by Carol-Lyn McKelvey, FAUSA & AIWC Cologne

As noted in a previous article, the Education Team is working to keep its finger on the pulse of access to education for girls in Afghanistan since the Taliban regained control. Frustratingly, the news is not good. In January, senior Taliban leader Zabihullah Mujahid announced that all girls would be back in school...

by Danielle Kuznetsov, Heidelberg IWC

The world has changed. Again. And not surprisingly, it is not for the better. Deep sorrow is in my heart for what is happening in Ukraine and Russia – two countries my life has weaved in and out of for the last thirty years, with friends who are like family, a lifetime of memories and...

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• Member Clubs

by Karen M. Van Antwerp, AIWC Düsseldorf  

Oftentimes we live our lives between photos. It is at a time like this that AIWC Düsseldorf (AIWCD) member Vera Kostiuk Busch (since 1973) has inspired all of us to step up and help however we can; all of us must do our part.

There isn’t a day that goes by (since the...