“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.
Restrictions and disruptions to daily life have touched all of us in the FAWCO family. We sincerely hope you and yours are healthy and doing well. FAWCO wants to thank all the healthcare and essential workers and their families for all they are doing and risking to help us through this crisis. There is a lot of confusion, stress and...
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...
Some forty delegates attended the FAWCO regional meeting at the Churchill Club in Casablanca on Saturday January 18. This included our FAWCO president, Emily van Eerten (AWC The Hague) and 2nd VP Member Clubs, Rozanne Van Rie (AWC Antwerp). A sizeable group came from the Rabat club and two members from AIWA...
On June 1, 2020, FAWCO began a Virtual Tour of all 60 FAWCO clubs and our Target Project Partner, Hope for Girls and Women, Tanzania. 81 FAWCO members have joined the mission so far and have allowed us to blow through Region 1 in a matter of a few days. As a team, we’ve travelled 764 miles on our 36,659.8...
For the American Women’s Club of Antwerp (AWCA), 2019 was as sparkling and multifaceted as the diamond in its logo. Founded in 1929, the club celebrated its 90th anniversary with a series of special events, including a Founders Day lunch, a reception at Antwerp City Hall, several special tours and a gala dinner-dance...
With close to 100 participants, and many more members following along on the FAWCO Virtual Tour Facebook page, The FAWCO Virtual Tour quickly walked, biked, and ran us along our route through Region 2: the Nordic Countries and Russia. With over 850 members in total, the seven...
On June 25, 2020, at 5:00 pm CET, almost 100 FAWCO members and guests from all around the world joined in to listen to an engaging panel discussion featuring keynote speaker, Muriel Tillinghast, renowned US civil rights leader and human rights activist. Other panelists included FAWCO President Emily van Eerten, moderator and human rights attorney Bayo Callender, and FAWCO Club...
AWG-LR Past Presidents, May 2016
The American Women’s Group of Languedoc Roussillon celebrated its 30th Anniversary on May 20th with a cocktail party attended by 60+ guests. The first warm Spring evening of the year made the socializing and mingling even more enjoyable in the courtyard of a local wine estate. Complete with good food and wine, lovely music played...
In April 2020, members of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women Vienna, including FAWCO UN Liaison and NGO CSW Vienna Chair Laurie Richardson, decided to draft a statement on the COID-19 response. We collaborated with members of other NGO Committees in Vienna on the statement, which was circulated to the Vienna UN NGO community and forwarded to...
AWC Brussels members Colleen Gilbert (FAWCO Rep), Stacy Seefeldt Shedivy (President) and Karin Wagner Smith, past board member (in order of interviews), were interviewed by the BBC concerning the lockdown in Brussels last week. View the video through this link.
The Bridge2Hope Academy is a program which provides social services to undocumented victims of human trafficking in the Netherlands. This program, nominated by the AWC The Hague, received the 2020 FAWCO Foundation Safe Haven Development Grant (DG) in the amount of $5000. Sheetal Shah, the psychologist and counselor who conceptualized the research known as the Bijlmer Project, and Angelique Koopman, chair of...
October General Meeting: “Tenacious Pursuers of Peace and Justice”
On October 21, 2015, AWA Vienna's monthly general meeting was a celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. The meeting featured a talk on pacifist and Nobel prize winner Bertha von Suttner. AWA co-sponsored the event with the US Mission to the United Nations in Vienna...
FAWCO is going on tour! A virtual tour of our 60 member clubs and our Target Project partner, Hope for Girls and Women, Tanzania. Starting on June 1st, and for the next 300 days, FAWCO members are invited to join in a fitness mission to journey 36,659.8 miles from the AWC London to the United States. Along the way, we...
Before posting 140 bras to Free the Girls, Melissa Mash from AW Surrey had a bit of fun as seen in the photo:
In 2005 FAWCO made a commitment to malaria prevention. Since FAWCO’s main focus was the purchase of insecticide treated bed nets (ITNs and LLITNs), the initiative was called “Networks” and between 2006 and 2009 a total of $165,885 was raised by our member organizations with another $100,000 coming from the Hilton...
Malaria is one of the world’s greatest tragedies. FAWCO has had a special interest in malaria prevention since 2005 when we started our very successful malaria initiative “NetWorks”. This was FAWCO’s first global project and the precursor to today’s Target Program. At that time, the parasitic infection transmitted by mosquitoes...
On April 7, 2014 a few AWC Lebanon members had the unique opportunity to meet Paula Lucas, founder of the American Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center (AODVC). In the very congenial atmosphere of a board member’s home, we learned about the terrifying experiences Paula and her children went through with her abusive husband. Her courageous escape with her three boys,