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International Women

ACWW (Associated Countrywomen of the World)

ACWW Website

Many groups are still supporting ACWW and raising money in a variety of ways including walks and Pennies for Friendship.  The latest ACWW initiative is to support midwives for indigenous communities and to increase awareness of childbirth and childcare.
Now that the WI charity rules have been relaxed many WI's are choosing to support other charities both local and national.  Of course you can continue to support ACWW alongside of these.
If you have any queries about supporting a charity please contact your advisor.  As a guideline your charity should be non political and secular.  Trustees also recommend charities such as Break.

Alison Bolster is our Federation Charities Coordinator

ACWW joins with UN Women to say 'No to Violence and asks us to  'orange the world'

#OrangeTheWorld is a UN initiative supported by ACWW and is 16 days of activism between 25th November, the International Day Against Violence Against Women (White Ribbon Day), and 10th December, International Human Rights Day.

On International Women's Day March 8th 2021

Mary Dorrell, Norfolk WI Trustee regards water, which we take for granted, as a privilege for so many throughout the world.

“Like many households in Norfolk, we suffer frequent sewage flooding. This is distressing but it could be so much worse. There are many places in the world where my health would be challenged by the disproportionate effect that insufficient clean water and sanitation facilities have on women.

Throughout my life, I would have been open to abuse and attack while walking to and using a toilet or open defecation site.

As a girl, I would have collected water for the family, as this is primarily a girl's job. Later I would have missed school every month because inadequate facilities for menstruation meant that I was unable to keep clean. As a woman childbirth would have been dangerous. The carrying of heavyweights as a child may damage the pelvis. Maternity facilities often lack clean water, I might even have had to buy my own.”

  • I #ChooseToChallenge Water Gender Inequality

Women of Laos

Pictured: women of Laos digging a route for their first-ever clean water supply into their village February 2020

Zoom Meeting on International Women’s Day 2021

This involved Soroptomists, Norfolk Federation of WIs, Norfolk & Suffolk Victim Care