As we approach the final phase of the Target Project Health, the Target Team has been reviewing our education and awareness efforts over the previous three years. We are proud to say that FAWCO women have engaged and become increasingly fluent in the language of female genital mutilation (FGM) during this period. When we started, many of us felt trepidation...
Global Issues Teams
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by Amanda Drollinger, AWC Central Scotland
I had the privilege of attending COP26 in Glasgow in November 2021. It was an amazing opportunity to hear directly from environmental action groups, environmental innovators, the United Nations, the World Health Organization, national and international organizations, nations and world leaders. They shared their plans, strategies and trajectories for navigating the climate crises and climate...
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Reviewed by Carol-Lyn McKelvey, FAUSA & AIWC Cologne
With Martin Luther King, Jr. Day just celebrated and Black History Month upon us in the US, it seems an appropriate time to dig deeper into the history of African Americans. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson is a masterpiece of research into past and present realities, yet easily accessible.
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by Anne van Oorschot, AWC The Hague
The Environment Team is very excited to announce FAWCO’s first Global Issues Book Read of 2022! We have selected The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for an Endangered Planet by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams.
From the book jacket:“The world-renowned naturalist and conservationist Jane Goodall has spent more than a...
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by Karen Castellon, AWC Berlin
Ascend Athletics is a global not-for-profit organization working in Afghanistan to empower young women through mountaineering-based leadership training. Recipients of a 2021 FAWCO Foundation Development Grant to create health materials for their target population of young women and their families, Ascend pivoted in August 2021 to assist its participants and their families in fleeing...
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by Christine Riney, AWC Hamburg, AWC London & FAWCO Health Co-Chair
The thought, the very idea, that we could have a future without the staggering number of deaths from cancer (in 2020 approx. 10,000,000) seems impossible – but is it? We live in a time of amazing advancements in the care of cancer patients and more importantly, in the...
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by Carol-Lyn McKelvey, FAUSA & AIWC Cologne
Typically, the Education Team focuses its energies on shining a spotlight on efforts, concerns and victories in underserved communities outside of the United States. However, with so much attention recently on the Black Lives Matter movement, the confusion over critical race theory, the disenfranchisement of Black voters through redistricting and restrictive voting practices...
