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**Next Living Legacy Awards**
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Women’s International Center’s motto is Education through Communication. Our mission is to Acknowledge, Honor, and Encourage Women.
WIC FOUNDER GLORIA LANE WITH FORMER
FIRST LADY OF EGYPT JEHAN SADAT PH.D.
Author of A Woman of Egypt
New! My Hope for Peace
In Support of Women's International Center (501c3) Education, Sistership and Service Programs and Scholarships
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WIC President Gloria Lane
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RECENT Spotlight on Women Luncheon - Great Success!
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More About Maris Ugarte: In her role as the Executive Director of the Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition, Marisa Ugarte brings more than 20 years of experience in advocacy for exploited men, women and children, and in assisting and at-risk youth. With a Masters degree (equivalent) in social work and psychology, Ms. Ugarte spent three years developing social services programs in Tijuana, Mexico. Ms. Ugarte is founder of the Binational Crisis Line in Tijuana, as well as the Domestic Violence Crisis Center for the Sistema Nacional para el Desarollo Integral de la Familia, Tijuana (DIF Tijuana). Ms. Ugarte continues to be an advisor to DIF and to the Civil Protection and Disaster Crisis Prevention Program in Mexico. (...)
Dr. Carolle Jean-Murat, MD is a board-certified gynecologist who had a successful medical practice in San Diego from 1982 to 2005. She is the CEO and Founder of Dr. Carolle's Wellness and Retreat Center of San Diego. She has also begun the Health Through Communications Foundation Angels for Haiti Project (- Photos from our recent Spotlight on Women Collaborative Luncheon, this time with the San Diego French Chamber of Commerce and Francophone Accueil de San Diego, held at Vela Restaurant, Bayfront Hilton. |
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Women's International Center Honors the Memory of Eunice Kennedy Shriver As founder and honorary chairperson of Special Olympics and executive vice president of the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation, Eunice Kennedy Shriver was a leader in the worldwide struggle to improve and enhance the lives of individuals with intellectual disabilities for more than three decades. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the fifth of nine children of Joseph P. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Eunice Mary Kennedy received a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Bio: Read More For more information, contact Helen MacNabb, hmacnabb@specialolympics.org or visit www.eksday.org |
Eunice Kennedy Shriver Day is as an annual event celebrated around the world.Partners
San Diego French American Chamber of Commerce: We enjoyed Co-Presenting with the San Diego Asian Film Festival sdaff.org in 2011Wonder Women - Shorts Program, I Am - Coming Out in India, My Wedding and Other Secrets - Chinese New Zealander covertly marries white boyfriend. In 2012 the San Diego Asian Film Festival has a Spring Showcase April 20-27 2012 and Annual Festival Nov 1-9. |
Honoring Jackée Harry - Women's International Center Global Ambassador Emmy Award-winning actress, Jackée Harry is known for her iconic role as vivacious "Sandra Clark"
on the NBC hit sitcom "227," as well as Oprah Winfrey's critically acclaimed "The Women of Brewster Place," "Sister, Sister" (which earned her multiple NAACP Image Awards), and "Everybody Hates Chris." She hopes to use her universal platform to uplift others in need and is working with The Women's International Center as our "Global Ambassador to Women." She inaugurated her "Jackée Frappé" signature shake on Monday, May 24th, 2010 at Millions of Milkshakes in support of The Women's International Center - West Hollywood, 8910 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA 90069-4902. Read More |
Dilkhwaz Ahmed Founder License to Freedom  Women's International Center CEO Bridget McDonald, Ph.D. speaks with Founder and Executive Director of License to Freedom, Dilkhwaz Ahmed (2011 Living Legacy Award honoree). License to Freedom is a non-profit community based organization that promotes nonviolence through community education, self-sufficiency and advocacy for refugee and immigrant survivors of domestic and relationship abuse in the East County and San Diego region. Ms. Ahmed recently received a Community Hero Award from the San Diego Domestic Violence Council and a Ruby Award from Soroptimist International. She helps San Diego prevent domestic violence by providing domestic violence support groups and help. Visit http://www.licensetofreedom.org |
2012 Women's International Center
Scholarship Recipients Will Include:
Little World Community Organization in support of Schools for Girls in Pakistan
Hope looks like 30 schools financed by the people who attend the school. Hope looks like 4,000 students where there used to be almost none.
In Pakistan, Little World Community Organization is helping the poor to end poverty by honoring their simple and effective motto: “Help Others to Help Oneself.”
LWCO has taught thousands of impoverished village women to be respected community leaders. They are becoming teachers who educate their communities and families. Inspired by hope, they often learn to read and write in one year. They also learn to make beautiful and creative crafts like embroidered greeting cards to support their schools, homes, and most recently, 2010 flood victims. Five dollars, the cost of one card, is also the cost for one person to attend an LWCO school for one year. LWCO grew to two thousand women in its first year. There are 30 schools and dozens of requests for more. LWCO supports the foundations of prosperity: generosity, independence, cooperation, confidence and creativity. http://lwco.org
see the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOegxNYZ2Jo&feature=youtube_gdata
Two of 2011's Women's International Center
Scholarship Recipients
Helia Lajeunesse, a women and children's rights activist in Haiti. Helia is a dedicated and effective outreach worker in the movement against child slavery and gender-based violence in Haiti. She is deeply engaged in community education and intervention, working full-time as a volunteer with the organization Commission of Women Victim to Victim. Helia's work is not only based on passion. Her entire life experience is a reflection of the need to combat child slavery and gender-based violence in Haiti. Helia is herself a former child slave, a rape survivor, and the widow of an assassinated husband. Her daughter and 4-year-old granddaugher have also been raped. In her deepest moment of poverty and despair some years ago, before she became conscientized and active, Helia was forced to put all her children except a small baby into the child slavery system. She has since reclaimed her children. Now Helia raises four children (a fifth was killed in the earthquake) and her granddaughter on her own, with no form of support except occasional small gifts from friends. Please see the following link to read Helia's testimony from the National Catholic Reporter's Cry Justice! Cry Hope! publication: http://ncronline.org/news/women/former-slave-fights-slavery. (Nominated by In Other Worlds)
The Dr. William Kupiec Academy for Girls was officially opened on September 9, 2009, in Idah, Nigeria. This school is specifically for girls grades 7-12, in a country where girls may only receive an education up to the 6th grade. The school provides education and housing as well, for both Christian and Muslim girls. Current enrollment is at 78; however, upon completion of the school, will be able to accommodate 400 students, which will mean adding one class per year. The Academy is one of the most recent projects in Nigeria by Friends of the Poor, a La Jolla-based non-profit organization. While they are still working diligently to raise the funds for completion of the school, they are simultaneously securing donations for scholarships. A year's scholarship for one girl is $900; however, we are most grateful for scholarship donations in any amount, as those can be pooled together for a full scholarship or subsidize those girls on partial scholarship. Mrs. Jean Colarusso, President of Friends of the Poor (and WIC Living Legacy), has said, 'The future of Africa lies with its women. The women are so eager to play a larger role in what happens in their towns, cities and countries. When they are given a job, they make the most of it and no opportunity is wasted. Educating these women is the very best thing we can do to make a difference in Africa. (Nominated by Jean Colarusso)
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Tools for Online Education (TOES promoting intellectual mobility)WIC is growing an online network providing education tools for anyone in the world with access to an internet connection: TOES Tools for Online Education, promoting intellectual mobility. WIC's business model is cooperative instead of competitive, please help us build our network by providing educational tools that we may post in our network and we will link back to your initiatives with a description of your work. Some of WICs online information will be included on software created by Compass Learning. Women's International Center was also chosen to be part of a research project conducted by Northern Illinois University that explores in what ways and with what effect U.S. interest groups and nongovernmental organizations are seeking to improve the status of women globally. Researcher Rachel Walker (under the direction of Professor Berrell) spent more than an hour during an exclusive interview with WIC gathering specific information for her study whose findings will be shared in the future. WIC Dreams & Solutions PagePlease email us one or a few of your Dreams for the World (a few sentences at most), any solution suggestions, and let us know if we have your permission to feature your first and/or first and last name and/or affiliation. Worldwide Population Management - My dream is to see exploding human population statistics stabilize in favor of preserving a sustainable planet. To help this come about, birth control education and ease of access need to be universal - for the benefit of everyone, especially unborn children. People should not fear temporary sterilization procedures in the interest of young couples getting an education before having children. A cultural shift in favor of older parents and single or no child families should be encouraged. One example of a helpful initiative on AIDS prevention in Bogota is the Zua Fundacion. |
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