by Hollie Nielsen, AWC of Central Scotland & Education Team Co-Chair

I’ve been inspired by World Literacy Day and the Education Team’s September focus on literacy. One of the books I’ve read this month is The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson. In her novel, Kim describes the difficult life and dire poverty of the Kentucky hollers...

by Julia Schecter, AWC London

By 2030, ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy

Literacy Source is a Seattle non-profit organization that provides free basic education to low-income adults in the Seattle, Washington area. The agency reports that 1 in 6 adults in Washington...

by Julia Schecter, AWC London 

There are now “more adults without literacy than there were 50 years ago, meaning that our efforts have not kept pace with population growth.”¹ In response, UNESCO has staked out an ambitious goal of eradicating adult illiteracy by 2030. The campaign, announced in its recent UNESCO Strategy for Youth and Adult Literacy 2020-2025,² is to focus on...

by Carol-Lyn McKelvey, FAUSA/AIWC Cologne & Education Team Co-Chair

To culminate our focus on literacy, the Education Team was proud to host author Juliet Cutler on World Literacy Day, September 8, to discuss Among the Maasai as part of the Global Issues Book Discussion Series. Juliet’s presentation was poignant yet direct, and it gave all participants a glimpse into the...

by Pam Perraud (AAWE Paris, FAUSA), FAWCO’s Representative on the US Women’s Caucus at the UN

Currently, the ERA remains an unfulfilled and unresolved issue for every American woman. The League of Women Voters US along with the Center for Women in Politics of Rutgers University, both non-profit, non-partisan organizations, have compiled a list of where House and Senate candidates stand on the...

by Linda S. Warner, AWC Amsterdam 

“Racism: An Intimate Conversation” was first announced on Juneteenth, and our first meeting was held via Zoom on June 29. It was indeed an intimate conversation. It was informative, heart-opening, honest and intelligent. A key takeaway from that talk was a unanimous desire to continue these discussions at regular intervals, for the foreseeable future.

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by Karen Rudin, AWC Zurich

The recent COVID-19 crisis was only a couple of weeks old when the media began reporting one unexpected positive effect. Worldwide greenhouse gas emissions were markedly reduced and the atmosphere less polluted as a result. As well as being good news in itself, this was an inkling that the corona crisis and the climate crisis are linked. Recognition...

by Chau-Jean Lin, AWC London 

Coming from a family of tea farmers, tea masters and tea producers, people often ask me if tea, as a beverage made from the plant species Camellia sinensis, can help alleviate common ailments – including weight problems, dull skin, digestive problems, aches and more. The question is usually prefaced with a reference to traditional forms...

August 5, 2020

Dear Sister FAWCO Clubs and FAUSA Members,

Many of you have seen the news about the horrific explosion that occurred yesterday in Beirut, Lebanon. Words cannot express how devastated AWC Lebanon members are. Everyone has been impacted, one way or another, by this tragedy. A few were injured, some have terrible damage to their homes, many lost...

Hari Kitching, AWC London, Human Rights Team member, shares a video and information about the London Black Lives Matter protests:

For many people, social, economic and human rights injustices are a part of everyday life and people continue to suffer as a result of unconscious biases in our society.

The death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 at the...