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How to Introduce the 2020–2022 FAWCO TARGET PROJECT (S.A.F.E.) to your Board and Club Membership

Do you have 10 minutes? Did you know that you can introduce the FAWCO Target Project in 10 minutes or less at a board meeting or general club meeting as an option for your club’s fundraising?

Audience: 

For FAWCO Reps and Club Presidents

Purpose: 

To help your Club understand and become an advocate of Safe Alternatives for Female Genital Mutilation...

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To Smoke or Not! World No Smoking Day May 31

Image by Gerd Altmann from PixabayMany of us probably grew up with a parent, an aunt or uncle or a grandparent who smoked, and have seen the significant impact that this had on the lives of people around us. Well-known smokers include Winston Churchill, who famously said, “My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol...

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Learning to Be a Better Bystander

 by Mary Dobrian, AIWC Cologne

 

Stop harassmentHave you ever witnessed someone being harassed? Most of us have. Maybe it was someone making a “joke” about another person’s race, ethnicity or gender identity, or a classmate being bullied on the playground – or maybe it was something more severe.

Often when we notice harassment we have an impulse to step in...

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Uncovering Sexual Harassment in STEM (SDG Targets 4.3 & 4.4)

by Mary Adams, AWC The Hague & Therese Hartwell, FAUSA

 

The Facts

In June 2018, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine published a research report with the findings that “women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) endure the highest rate of sexual harassment of any profession outside of the military.” 

In November 2018, seven STEM female...

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Prato, Italy & Its Recycling History

by Jocelyn Fitzgerald, AILO of Florence

There is more clothing being sold than ever before, which, in turn, results in an ever-growing mountain of discarded clothing. After the oil and gas industries, the textile industry is widely believed to be the most polluting industry on the planet, responsible for 10% of total CO2 emissions. While buying fewer clothes is the...

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Crisis in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia

by Elizabeth López-Rigaudeau, AWC Zürich

 

Dear Lisa & Jean-Paul,

Hello. How are you? I hope everything is OK by your side…We are safe from the pandemic at first and now because of the war I hope everything will be restored so we can go back to school. I want to appreciate and I am great full for the never ending...

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Literacy Beyond Bars (SDG Targets 4.5 & 4.6)

by Mary Adams, AWC The Hague

 

Books in jailMost of us feel like we have been in prison during the pandemic. Teenagers, especially, feel isolated and alone because they are out of school, bored and restless. Has it ever crossed your mind to wonder about the impact of the pandemic on youth in prison? Would you agree that the power of...

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