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Sponsored by the American Women's Club of Dublin. The theme is WATER. What are your reflections of water ? What is the color, the force behind it ? How is water part of every day life? Your pictures should tell the story of water! The purpose of the competition is to fundraise for the FAWCO Target Water Project - Tabitha...
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The full extent of the damage is coming to light so now is the time to take action. FAWCO has activated an Emergency Relief Fund (ERF) in support of Second Harvest Japan. If your Club or Club Members are putting together a fundraiser and need
ideas, contact FAWCO’s Treasurer, Cora Lee Findley at . To donate, go to...





While today marks UN World Water Day, there will be little celebration in homes and towns without clean water. The theme of this year's UN World Water Day is "urban water problems." Some 3.3 Billion people live in cities and of those, 827.6 million people live in urban slums around the world. Most of those people do not have access...
This year is the 100th anniversary of the first International Women's Day. International Women's Day is when women are recognized for their achievements and it is marked by thousands of different celebrations around the world. click here for more info.
Michelle Bachelet, former president of Chile and now UN Under Secretary General and head of the new UN Women agency, has just announced her new 100-day plan for the agency.Ms Bachelet announced she had 5 thematic priorities in a country specific context : 1) Expanding women's voice, leadership and participatio, 2) Ending violence against women, 3) Ensuring women's full participation...
Members of the new Congress are challenging US funding for the United Nations and its agencies. The new chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Rep-FL) is questioning continued support of the United Nations. She has introduced legislation, co-sponsored by over 100 other members, which would change payments of the current mandatory "assessments" to the UN to be...
It was with great sadness that the FAWCO Board received the news of a FAWCO Counselor passing away on January 5. Pam Dahlgren (FAUSA and AW of Surrey) was one of our outstanding and distinguished FAWCO volunteers.
On behalf of all her FAWCO friends, we send our deepest condolences to her family. Her husband Bob has requested that if people...