THE COUNTRYWOMAN INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE OF THE ASSOCIATED COUNTRY WOMEN OF THE WORLD
OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2015
WOMEN’S INSTITUTES ANNUAL REPORT CELEBRATE CENTENARY INSIDE
CARIBBEAN, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA Highlights from the Area Conference
GETTING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK ACWW Triennial World Conference August 2016
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significant features of their first 100 years. Cover Photo credit: WORLD PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Whilst there we made contact with the Chief National Federation of Women’s Executive of the Fairtrade Foundation and Institutes and Rebecca Miller. hope this might lead to us working more Maggie Simons, ACWW closely in years to come. The following day I Communications & Marketing Ruth Shanks A.M. was privileged to be a guest at the historic WI Deputy Chairman, presenting ACWW World President AGM at the Royal Albert Hall. I must say that the WI Centenary Baton to memories of 5,000 women singing Jerusalem HRH the Queen. in unison will stay with me for ever and still ACWW Connects & Supports sends a tingle down my spine when I think Women & Communities Worldwide of it. June also was the time for ACWW’s Caribbean, Central & South America Area The Countrywoman, distributed to over 70 countries worldwide, is the magazine of the Conference held in Kingston Jamaica with Associated Country Women of the World approximately 150 participants. This was a (ACWW), NGO Official partner of UNESCO great opportunity to speak with the members DEAR FRIENDS from this area and also to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the host organisation, ISSN 0011-0302 DID YOU REALISE that we have less than the Jamaican Women’s Federation. twelve months before the Triennial World Congratulations to the Caribbean, Conference being held at the University Central & South America Area President, Named in 1933 by Mrs Alfred Watt, MBE, of Warwick, England? It seems no time Dotsie Gordon, for an interesting and MA First President, ACWW at all since we gathered together for that informative Conference. wonderful conference in Chennai, India. I Mary Sumner House July and August was a time where many 24 Tufton Street know the Triennial Conference Committee undone things could be done and for a little London SW1P 3RB (TCC), under the watchful leadership of the quiet time with the family. The end of August England Chair, Henrietta Schoeman has all matters Tel: +44 (0)207 799 3875 was the time for The Country Women’s in hand and are working towards an Fax: +44 (0)207 340 9950 Association of Australia Triennial Conference Email: [email protected] enjoyable, fulfilling and worthwhile conference with about 150 participants from around Website: www.acww.org.uk for all to attend. Australia and it was great to be “beside the Reg Charity Number: 290367 When I look back on my diary for 2015 seaside” for a few days. there has certainly been a lot going on, March EDITORIAL & DESIGN September in Tulsa, Oklahoma was the USA Digital & Print Media Manager/Editor of course was the Board meetings with Area Conference, this Conference was a great Jennifer Atigolo | Email: [email protected] associated committee meetings. It was great occasion and well organised. The great thing to have Board and Committee members about the various Area Conferences is that meeting and sharing time with each other CENTRAL OFFICE CONTACTS they are all totally different in organisation, Operations Manager and get a broader picture of ACWW’s work. speakers, day trips, entertainment etc., but the Tish Collins | Email: [email protected] There was also, at this time, a visit to North one common theme amongst them all, is the Yorkshire East for the Spring Council meeting, Finance Manager interest and enthusiasm in working together Amit Patel | Email: [email protected] giving us the opportunity to promote the to make this world a better place. work of ACWW. October is the time again for Committee Finance & Membership Administrator April saw ACWW day, 29th April, and meetings and venturing forth with new ideas Manisha Vora | Email: [email protected] Women Walk the World in all its various for our continuing work. I hope you have forms around the world. Some of the stories Office Administrator(General enquiries) all been impressed by the e-newsletters Poonam Gill | Email: [email protected] we have received have been wonderful, coming from Central Office. If you have refreshing and it never ceases to amaze me not supplied your email address to Central Projects Administrator how women think “outside the box” to Juliet Childs | Email: [email protected] Office, please do so and then you can also involve others in these activities. receive the newsletters. This has come UN & Agriculture Administrator May included The Country Women’s about because it was felt that we needed to Dr Sam Page | Email: [email protected] Association of New South Wales Annual communicate between the publication of The General Meeting and Conference with Countrywoman magazine and it has been a DEADLINES approximately 600 participants, and again, a really successful innovation. great time to network and renew friendships My wise words for this edition are: Please note the following deadlines for from around the State. This was also the submitting articles and photographs to We live in a wonderful world month for The Countrywomen’s Association the Editor for ‘The Countrywoman’. Make a decision - whether it’s right or wrong, of Victoria with about 700 participants, to make a decision. January-March: November1st conduct their Annual General Meeting. This Get out of your comfort zone and into it! April-June: February 1st was a flying visit for me as I was to leave And when you’ve done all that, do that July-September: May 1st Australia the following day for London and little bit extra. October-December: August 1st the June ACWW Committee meetings. Because it’s that little teeny weeny little bit
The timing of our June Finance and extra, that makes all the difference. Editor’s guide on submitting Executive meetings could not have been articles & photos on page 4 (Tom O’Toole) better. I enjoyed a pleasant evening at Cheers for now and until next time, have fun! THE EDITOR’S DECISION ON the NFWI special reception for partner ACCEPTANCE IS FINAL organisations where we listened to an entertaining talk on the history of the WI and Ruth Shanks A.M. 2 | www.acww.org.uk COUNTRYWOMAN | OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2015
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09 Area Conference held in Kingston Jamaica 16 WIs Celebrate Centenary 19 Girls & Boys Workshop in South Africa
21 CENTRAL OFFICE NEWS This summer England and Wales were all a-buzz with celebrations for the Women’s’ Institutes Centenary. The WI even managed to dominate our television screens, which was wonderful. I attended a special reception for WI partner organisations on the eve of their AGM, along with members of the Executive where we received a very warm welcome. I also met with representatives of the Scottish WI and the Northern Irish Federation of WIs and it was great to put faces to names I’d been in correspondence with. Greenhouse Development in Mongolia In the last issue, (CW July- September 2015), the Giving Machine was brought to your 4 FINANCE COMMITTEE 15-19 SOCIETY FEEDBACK attention. It is now even easier to join and select Reminders for all Societies and How did you Celebrate 100 years of the ACWW as the cause you wish to support. Once Individual Members Women’s Institute? registered, click to ‘go shopping’ and all your purchases started through a link from www. 5-6 ACWW NEWS Congratulations Sally Garrington and thegivingmachine.co.uk will yield a donation to Tea Time with ACWW Thank you! ACWW at no extra cost to you. Big companies use it as a form of advertising and that is where My visit to West Sussex FWI Women’s Institutes Celebrate Centenary the donation comes from. In Memory: Ria Becker Oxfordshire Federation Collects Foreign In September I had the good fortune to meet Coins in Aid of ACWW with ACWW Southern Counties Support Group 6 AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE UK at their annual meeting. This was held at Year of the Soil Buckinghamshire Federation Promote Central Office and gave me a good insight into ACWW at WI Centenary Garden Party the invaluable work of our ACWW Reps. It also ACWW & the Zero Hunger Challenge provided the opportunity for me to give more ACWW’s European Area President information about the forthcoming Triennial 7 COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING Visits Germany World Conference and answer some of their COMMITTEE questions. Our website is the first port of Planning a Successful Meeting Celebrating 40 years of West Midlands call and is being kept up to date – follow the Federation with 100 years of WI link button on the home page. The Triennial 8 UN COMMITTEE Koster WAU Celebrate Conference Committee (TCC) meets in Turn the World UN Blue, Marking the UN International Day October, after which, further information should be available. 9-10 AREA CONFERENCE Making Hats for Pennies for Friendship One year after he started, the sad news is Caribbean, Central and South America that Samuel Godolphin, Projects Development Rustenburg WAU Branches Girls and Administrator is leaving us to work for the Boys Workshop Safer World charity. We all wish him well for 10-14 WORLD CONFERENCE the future. The post has been advertised and I Getting to the University of Warwick Francistown Women’s Institute hope to be able to announce a new member of visits Lephoi Centre for the Blind staff shortly. Poonam Gill, Office Administrator, Open Mic - Entertain the World and Visually Impaired will continue to write and send the ‘Woman A Call for Unwanted Costume Jewellery Visiting Dullstroom Epilepsy Centre in to Woman’ e-newsletters. If you are not yet South Africa receiving yours, contact [email protected] with Conference information, Registration and your email address putting ‘Subscribe’ in the Accommodation Form 20 - 23 PROJECTS subject box. Tish Collins, Operations Manager www.acww.org.uk | 3 COUNTRYWOMAN | OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2015
EDITOR’S GUIDE FOR SUBMITTING ARTICLES & PHOTOS
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FINANCE COMMITTEE Submitting Articles It is very important when submitting articles, to make sure all the information contained is correct i.e. dates, times, amounts collected and the number of people who have attended your event or conference. Please make sure that names of attendees mentioned in your article are spelt correctly, as well as names of 2015 GOAL groups,organisations, as well as the country/ region it was held. Please make sure to include £200,000 all the groups featured in your article, if they have donated money, taken part or helped to Alison Burnett, ACWW Finance Committee Chairman organise your event or conference. If we do not know who the people are in your article, we will assume that the names provided are REMINDERS FOR correctly spelt. We will also assume that your submitted written article is accurate. Please ALL SOCIETIES note articles will be edited. & INDIVIDUAL Submitting Photos MEMBERS £137,493 It is very important when submitting If you are planning to attend the Triennial September 2015 digital photo(s) via email, that they are high World Conference in England next year, resolution 300dpi, or are a good high gloss you should remember that you have to be print if you decide to send them by post. a PAID UP society or individual member to When taking photo(s) please make sure be allowed to attend. Any new Category 1-3 the ‘date stamp’ on your camera/smart phone Society has to be approved by ACWW by is switched off. It is also very important to March 2016 in order to be allowed to vote provide clearly written full names of all the at the Conference. people who appear in the photos, from left If accepted later the society will be able to right. It would also be helpful to have a to attend but NOT able to vote. This means short caption of where/when the photo was that all necessary documentation should be taken. Please ensure that the names are spelt at Central Office by end of February at the correctly, as previously stated, if we do not latest in order to be approved by the Board know who the people are, we will assume that at beginning of March 2016. the names provided are accurate. Also, please 2016 membership dues are due by ALL ensure that the correct photo goes with the societies and individuals on 1st January. Any correct name and caption. society who is unable to pay the dues can apply to the Twinning Fund, through ACWW Photo Use & Release Agreement Central Office in London, to have their By submitting your photo(s) you agree to dues paid. However if they are accepted to grant ACWW a perpetual, royalty-free, be paid out of the Twinning Fund it will be Thank you for irrevocable, non-exclusive right to publish for Cat 4a only, even if they are normally a your photo(s) in The Countrywoman and on your support! Cat1-3 society. Twinning Fund is only a short ACWW’s website. To reproduce, modify, adapt term help and will not be available for more and incorporate your photo(s) in ACWW’s than 2 years at any one time. other works and publications in any form, Please support ACWW by taking part MEMBERSHIP PAYMENTS media or technology now known, or later in this year’s Tea Time with ACWW where USING ONLINE BANKING developed for the full term of any rights that you and your friends can enjoy a ‘cup of Account: Associated Country Women may exist for your photo(s). By submitting tea’ while raising funds for PFF, to help of the World your photo(s) you warrant that you have ACWW carry out its work helping women Account number: 01244108 the right to grant this, or have obtained & communities out of poverty worldwide. Sort Code: 56-00-33 permission from the original owner. May I remind you again of the great need Branch: Westminster
for funds for the Conference Sponsorship Bank: National Westminster Bank, Please follow these instructions, as ACWW Fund, which supports members to attend 57 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0HP cannot accept any responsibility for inaccurate the Conference by giving financial help? Swift code: NWB KGB 2L articles, or mislabelled photos and will not be Please see the July-September 2015 issue of IBAN number: GB67NWBK liable for any disputes relating to the rights of The Countrywoman for more information. 56003301244108 use of any photos from any third party.
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ACWW NEWS TEA TIME WITH ACWW IT’S AS EASY AS ONE, TWO, TEA…
Tea Time with ACWW was launched in Do join us and host a tea party on with ACWW’ on the back of the cheque honour of the International Day of Rural or around 15th October to celebrate along with your full name and membership Women on 15th October 2014. International Day of Rural Women! For number. It would be great if you could also This campaign to bring people all over more details please visit: http://acww.org.uk/ confirm if you are eligible as a UK taxpayer the world together to share a drink and tea_time. Please let us know how you got on for Gift Aid, this way we could claim an raise money to reduce the deprivation of at your event by sending in a photo of your extra 25% on your donation from the UK women living in rural poverty. The money tea party and especially a photo of your cakes Government with no extra cost to you. you raise will not only benefit the lives of if you decided to use our cake topper design, Deadline: Please ensure that all tea time some of the most disadvantaged women all along with a small write up. The best photo articles and photos for the magazine reach over the world, but also their families and will feature on the front over of our January- the Editor by 20th November 2015 and that communities. Let’s raise awareness for this March 2016 issue of The Countrywoman. any donations reach by 30th November 2015. important day and help women less fortunate Please send all donations by cheque All other articles not referring to tea time than ourselves. payable to: ‘ACWW’. Please write ‘Tea Time should be submitted by 16th November 2015. MY VISIT TO WEST SUSSEX FWI
the course of 8 months, VECH Uganda aimed to construct 19 water ‘jars’ (made of waterproof cement) to harvest rainwater, in the homes of 19 grandmothers, who are Tish Collins, ACWW Operations Manager heads of the household for 83 children. These Tish Collins ACWW’s Operations Manager beneficiaries will see their wrote: On a beautifully sunny summer’s day living standards improve in in June I left Central Office for the lure of the a number of ways; access to countryside as West Sussex FWI had invited cleaner water, less cases of me to their ACWW Day at Fittleworth water-borne disease; more Village Hall. The purpose of the day was free time in which to focus to raise awareness amongst WI members, Left to right: Verity Ludlow is shown handing her donation to Valerie Stevens, ACWW’s on their academic studies inform, entertain, raise Pennies and support European Area President (especially youngsters who ACWW projects. To an audience of about no longer have to walk 50, June Moran, County Chairman and Jane After lunch Valerie Stevens was invited to great distances to collect water), income Biggs, ACWW Representative introduced a speak again. This time she bought home the generation and other activities. There was a lively agenda. Congratulations went to Verity necessity and impact of ACWW projects as lot of interest in selecting the next project Ludlow from Woodmancote and Henfield she showed pictures of women she had met for the Federation to ‘adopt’ and the raffle WI, who celebrated the WI centenary by since becoming Area President and told of the and donations jar were both well supported! swimming 100 lengths of the local swimming difficult conditions in which they struggled to Valerie was followed by Dot and Phil Waldron pool. She raised almost £370, which she make a living for their families. talking about their experiences with the donated to West Sussex FWI’s adopted I was then called upon to confirm the Fair Trade organisation and the increasing ACWW project. wonderful news that West Sussex FWI had availability of fairly traded items, particularly European Area President Valerie Stevens achieved its target to support Project no. produce. On the train home I had time to gave an informative PowerPoint presentation 0974: Kabembe Grandmothers, Orphans and reflect on the impact made by ACWW and on ACWW – what it is and how it operates. Vulnerable Children Health Improvement how we inform existing supporters, as well as Next up was Zippy Nomad who delighted the Project; led by Voluntary Efforts for attracting new ones. audience with highlights of her experiences Community Health Uganda (VECH Uganda). This quarterly magazine, our website and touring England and Wales in a tiny This project was designed to improve the e-newsletters are at the forefront of our campervan, visiting WI meetings and writing general health conditions of elderly rural communications, supported by Facebook and them up for a book (all profits of which go grandmothers and their households through Twitter. Articles are welcome from members to ACWW). increased access to safe, clean water. Over and will be used where possible. www.acww.org.uk | 5 COUNTRYWOMAN | OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2015
ACWW NEWS AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE IN MEMORY YEAR OF THE SOIL- POTATOES
Ria Becker 2015
It is with great sadness that we announce that one of our former Southern Africa Area Presidents, Ria Photo: credit: getdrop.com Becker, passed away on 14th April 2015. Anna Boshoff, a member of the South In Northern Ireland the counties of Antrim flour will toughen the bread). Use a floured Africa Homemakers organisations and and Down, with their acres of rich soil, can rolling pin to flatten into a 9 inch circle about ACWW, in honouring Ria’s memory grow many types of crops including lush grass a quarter inch thick. Cut into 4 segments wrote: Refined and elegant, Ria was a for dairy cows and beef cattle to graze and - the word “farl” is Irish Gaelic for four leader of whom we were extremely proud. for making silage for winter feed. Grain is parts. Bake on a hot griddle or heavy pan Holding most offices in the Women’s grown for milling for cattle feed. until browned on both sides. Alternatively, Agricultural Union of South Africa at one Many varieties of potatoes are also grown. sprinkle a little flour onto a dry frying pan time or another, she rose from Branch The potato crop in the past was the mainstay and cook the farls for 3 minutes on each side Secretary, Home Economist and Floral income for many farms. Comber Earlies from or until evenly browned. Cool on a tea towel. Judge to Regional, Provincial and National County Down are eagerly awaited each year May be eaten hot or cold or traditionally fried President (1976-1981). She served two in early June. They are very tasty steamed and with bacon and egg. DELICIOUS enjoy! terms as ACWW Area President - from tossed in butter and parsley and served with 1980-1986 and again from 1993-1995. any main course or with a salad. She also served on ACWW’s Projects In County Antrim from July they dig ACWW & THE ZERO Committee and was subsequently elected Sharpes Express and British Queens and from Chairman of the Projects Committee September main crops of Dunbar Standard. HUNGER CHALLENGE (1995-2001). Maris Pipers are dug and stored for use She was a hard worker who gave her all through winter and spring. There are many to the societies she served – her time, her ways to use potatoes to make tasty meals. energy, her abilities and her talents. She Here is a Northern Ireland recipe used by was a meticulous and always very well- many generations. prepared leader who understood the art of allowing the meeting to make decisions, IRISH POTATO BREAD, FARLS OR FADGE while she kept control. 400g Potatoes (4 medium potatoes) peeled Ria gave an amazing part of her life and halved to the welfare of others and will be Half teaspoon Salt remembered especially for her efforts 100g Flour to find and raise donors in order to 25g Butter (melted) Our new Zero Hunger Challenge page afford underprivileged rural members has gone live, with information about what the opportunity to travel abroad, meet In a pot, cover potatoes with water and we hope to achieve with our involvement. members from other countries and attend bring to boil. Simmer until tender (about 20 You can help too - we need our members to World Conferences. She always showed minutes). Drain. Mash potatoes while warm, contact local supermarkets about their efforts love and devotion to ACWW throughout until smooth. Pile potatoes on a floured to reduce food waste. The page, complete her years as a member of the Board and baking board or place in a bowl. Sprinkle with with a template letter you can send to your will be missed deeply by all who knew her. salt and melted butter. Knead in just enough supermarket, can be viewed at http://www. flour to bind potatoes together (too much acww.org.uk/zero_hunger 6 | www.acww.org.uk COUNTRYWOMAN | OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2015
COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING COMMITTEE
• The Chairperson took over time taken is a common complaint. This is • The Chairperson did nothing to control sometimes the fault of the chairperson for the meeting allowing non-productive argument and not • Irrelevant discussion was allowed drawing items to a close, and is sometimes • It was generally a waste of time (and often caused by having an unrealistic number of stressful through anger and frustration) items for discussion. There is no maximum Magdie de Kock, time for a meeting, but one lasting for more ACWW Communications There is far more to the meeting than just than a couple of hours is bound to have & Marketing Committee Chairman the time spent around the table. In order to periods when concentration slips, to prevent be successful, everybody must: this provide regular comfort breaks. This • Know why they are there also helps structure the meeting and will • Recognise what is to be achieved usually speed it up. Setting a comfortable • Have read all paperwork in advance environment is a vital part when planning a PLANNING A • Be prepared (mentally and practically) successful meeting. Although there’s usually • Contribute positively not much choice, wherever possible choose a SUCCESSFUL • Listen room that will be comfortable. • Focus and keep to the point This will make the meeting easier to chair MEETING • Leave with a clear understanding of any and to minute and it is more likely to be points of action productive. The size of the room and layout should be appropriate, and the room light and Magdie de Kock, ACWW’s Meetings need to be structured if they are airy with minimum distractions. Communications and Marketing Committee to be effective. That is not to say that the The use of additional equipment, be it Chairman, motivates and equips women structure has to be overt, seeming to be electronic or other, makes an important part through knowledge and skills to develop ways more important than the content. Formal of conducting a successful meeting. Make to discover a personal purpose to enrich meetings are likely to have a more obvious sure you know what equipment is required their lives and those of others. Here Magdie structure. For informal meetings the by participants, so this can be arranged in shares her advice on how to plan a successful chairperson might not want to appear so advance. It is always a good idea to have a meeting. Magdie writes: Since calling meetings dictatorial, but there should be an underlying flipchart in a meeting room, as it can be used is part of ACWW affiliated societies’ plan that keeps the meeting to time and to list ideas or problems. Listing the latter activities, I was requested to give some productive. To arrange a meeting one should is a good way of taking the heat out of an hints to the chairpersons and secretaries, or keep an accurate and well planned database argument; focusing on the flipchart prevents minute-takers on planning and arranging a of those who attend the meetings you set people focusing on one another and slows successful meeting. up. Since many will attend more than one the pace. In theory setting up a meeting should meeting, it is generally best to keep one present no problem: a few phone calls, a overall meeting database, rather than one TIP: I always prepare a master checklist of confirmation note, or email and that’s it right? for each meeting. Before you begin to plan absolutely everything I might need to do. For Think again! Anyone who has tried to do the meeting, make sure you know who must each meeting or conference I arrange, I print off it knows the reality: endless calls trying to attend, who should attend and what is needed a copy and, as I set up the meeting, I cross out find mutually convenient dates, difficulty in for the meeting. the things that are not relevant and tick off the booking rooms, and unforeseen expenses If too little notice is given, participants will tasks as I do them. that mean no sandwiches and grumbling be ill-prepared. If papers have not been read, participants. In my experience of more this will have to be done at the meeting. This IN CONCLUSION than 30 years of planning and conducting not only wastes time, but comprehension is There are four roles in a meeting: to lead meetings of various types, I have come to likely to be poor and readers often latch onto it (chairperson), to support it (secretary or the conclusion meetings fall into one of two a point they strongly agree or disagree with; minute-taker), to contribute to the meeting categories, the one-off and the regular. this leads to argument. If issues have not been and to observe it. It is of the upmost Meetings are generally held for one of four thought through, arguing is again likely, as is a importance that members are aware of reasons, to spread information, to discuss resultant poor decision. If items are not fully these and then be prepared to play out their issues, to solve problems and to decide on discussed, or decisions are poor, the subject is different roles. Henry Ford, the American future actions. A meeting can be a positive or likely to be raised again at the next meeting. industrialist said: negative experience, depending on the skill This might be intentionally via the agenda, or “Coming together is a beginning. of the chairperson and the attitude of those unintentionally because someone goes back Keeping together is progress. attending. The most common complaints to the subject. Inevitably the whole matter is Working together is success”. from those who attend are: discussed again, wasting considerable time. Let us strive to work together to live up • Participants couldn’t have their say There is no fixed rule for the amount of to the theme of the next ACWW Triennial • Discussion degenerated into argument notice you should give, but ensure that it is World Conference: Working together for a • The meeting was dominated by one or enough for all preparation to be done. Few better future. two ‘loud voices’ people like long meetings, and the length of Acknowledgement: ‘Meetings’ by J Guttman. www.acww.org.uk | 7 COUNTRYWOMAN | OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2015
UN COMMITTEE
TURN THE WORLD UN BLUE
Sharon Hatten, ACWW MARKING THE UNITED NATIONS UN Committee Chairman
This October to help mark the 70th Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination provided direction for member societies. In anniversary of the United Nations (UN), against Women (CEDAW), the 1995 Beijing 1980 in Hamburg Germany, ACWW passed a iconic monuments, buildings, landscapes, Declaration and Platform for Action, and the resolution to set up the ‘Projects Committee’. museums, bridges and other landmarks across 2000 landmark Security Council resolution ACWW projects met all, or some of the the globe will be lit up blue - the official 1325. The Security Council resolution 1325 Millennium Development Goals, which colour of the UN. specifically addresses the need for women indicates our foresight in development needs. This is the fourth article in the series and children to be protected during the time At the 1995 conference in New Zealand, ‘Celebrating 70 years of the UN with 68 of conflicts. ACWW passed a resolution to establish an years of advocacy work by ACWW’. In my In 2010, UN Women the only composite Ad Hoc committee on Agriculture (changed final article I will focus on the changes in the entity of the UN system was created to to a Specified Committee in 1998). The lives of women over the past 70 years both at promote the rights of women. UN Women Agriculture Committee has recently re- the UN and at ACWW. supports and advocates for gender equality, established its links with the FAO, which had A photo history on the UN’s website women’s empowerment and the rights of gone into abeyance for a few years as there (http://research.un.org/en/UN70) clearly women globally. Some highly successful was no Rome representative. shows women are either absent, or in campaigns that are currently promoting these During the past 68 years, ACWW has subservient roles during the early years of rights include UNite to End Violence against moved from black and white to colour UN meetings. Women and children are often Women, Planet 50/50 by 2030: Step it up for photos, from the pen, paper and mail era to portrayed as the ones who were poor and Gender Equality and the ‘HeForShe’ campaign. the instant messaging of email, Skype and in need. ACWW’s UN rep, Patricia Altshuler, Recently I read the September 2015 Bi- Twitter. Members have transitioned from in New York provided me with her memory Annual Civil Society Briefing, opening remarks the time when women were known by their of the early days when she worked at the of Michael Moller, Acting Head, UN Office husband’s name and being treated as property UN as a secretary to the Australian Prime at Geneva, where he said: “Gender equality to women who keep their birth name Minister and Foreign Secretary at the time. should be at the heart of all our efforts, at all throughout life and are independent. Western Patricia says “There were lots of women levels. In June this year I launched, together women in the 1950’s were given few choices secretaries working for government leaders with the Permanent Representative of the in a career, usually a nurse, a secretary or a and ambassadors. I don’t think it dawned on USA, the International Geneva Gender teacher and women in developing countries us that we might aspire to be an ambassador”. Champions Initiative - a network of decision- were largely under - educated. But 70 years While there were a few women in makers in Geneva”. later women are making a difference in their decision-making roles, Eleanor Roosevelt He added “The members of this network roles as lawyers, politicians, doctors and and Madame Pandit from India for example, will lead by example through concrete school principals in most countries in the most women didn’t think to aspire to be actions that bring genuine change both in ACWW world. The ACWW history books ambassadors, government representatives organisational culture and in programming. are very interesting to read and observe or leaders. But by the 1960s women started One concrete action is to strive for gender the differences. to become social activists and very vocal parity in all discussions in International Whilst many NGOs have paid staff and by the 1970’s it was clear that women Geneva. I personally will no longer accept members who advocate during meetings were becoming government leaders, UN invitations to serve on a panel without any at UN venues, ACWW continues to rely ambassadors, and were being placed in women participants”. on and is very grateful to volunteers. The decision-making roles. While this suggests that the UN itself does NGO interventions at the UN are the main The Commission on the Status of Women not have equality in the workspace especially communications for civil society to persuade (CSW), which was set up in 1946 as the in leadership roles, there is a concerted effort the governments at UN deliberations. At the principal global intergovernmental body to ensure this happens. ACWW has changed local level, ACWW member societies are for policy dialogue on gender equality, has during the past 70 years. Women went to leaders in their communities as they work been instrumental in promoting women’s the first post-World War Two Conference in to help enhance the lives of women, girls and rights, documenting the reality of women’s Amsterdam where they passed resolutions families in both urban and rural areas. lives throughout the world and shaping to accept an NGO role at the UN, the Food Women who volunteer for ACWW global standards on gender equality and and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and are making a difference every day in their the empowerment of women. Important UNESCO. At other ACWW conferences communities. The challenges of tomorrow achievements helping to achieve these CSW resolutions on citizenship, education, family are being defined today. ACWW members of goals include the 1979 Convention on the planning, environment and health have tomorrow are the youth of today.
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CARIBBEAN, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
WORKING WITH WOMEN WORLDWIDE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN HOMES AND COUNTRY Gloria Millwood, President of JFW - Greetings Ruth Shanks A.M. ACWW World President - Opening Address
Dotsie Gordon, ACWW Area President for Caribbean, Central and South America
The Area Conference for the Caribbean, The Hon. Donna Parchment-Brown - Keynote Address Valerie Veria, CEO JBDC - Presentation Q&A Central and South America, held in Kingston Jamaica was a two day event from 11-12 June 2015. With the theme titled ‘Working improving the quality of life, especially of to be invited to what was considered an with Women Worldwide for Sustainable those in rural communities. important event and congratulated the JFW Development in Homes and Country’, the Ruth Shanks A.M. ACWW World President, for its 70 years of important service. first day’s activities commenced with the during her opening address, greeted the During her address the Hon. Donna registration of sixty-seven (67) delegates, participants and thanked the Area President, Parchment-Brown mentioned the UN representing areas in Trinidad & Tobago and delegates and visitors for their attendance. Women Policy and Programme Bureau Jamaica. The Opening Ceremony commenced She said it was wonderful being in Jamaica of 2015, touching briefly on a few of the with Dotsie Gordon, ACWW’s Area as she had heard so much about the country recommendations made by the Bureau President for Caribbean, Central and South and thanked everyone for making her feel by saying: America, welcoming participants. She stated welcomed. In Ruth’s speech she pointed • Women’s positions in life should not define that it was an achievement for Jamaica to be out that her designation as World President them. We need to be conscious of all hosting this triennium’s Area Conference. had made her responsible for over nine our sisters and not be derailed from the Dotsie extended a warm welcome to million women across the world. She said concerns; we all rise. specially invited guests, including Ruth Shanks ACWW was happy to hear that members • Violence against women and girls A.M., ACWW World President; the Hon. had participated in ACWW’s Woman Walk in Jamaica continues to be a leading issue Donna Parchment-Brown, Custos of St. the World, which was an event to promote negatively impacting women and the family. Andrew; Gloria Millwood, President of the ACWW in the communities and a means The voices of women and men were raised Jamaica Federation of Women (JFW) and of collecting funds. She informed them that on these issues during the celebration of Cecile Jarrett, Chairperson of JFW; as well the next ACWW event would be ‘Tea Time Child Month in May. as Alison Burnett, ACWW Treasurer and with ACWW’ an event started in 2014, as She reminded the participants to work with Finance Committee Chairman. a promotional tool to inform people of the and through organisations, such as the former There were several speeches presented organisation’s involvement with the UN. It Bureau of Women’s Affairs now the Bureau by the VIP guests. In her Greetings, Gloria would be held on or around 15th October to of Gender Affairs and the Ministry of Justice Millwood, said the day was a memorable one coincide with the International Day of Rural and National Security. She added “We need because two great organisations had come Women celebration. Ruth’s final thoughts to be our sister’s keeper and to be available together to discuss and share ways in which were that we could not change the world to them in the face of challenges. Let us not women were working selflessly to improve but we could make a difference by working be afraid of expressing our emotions in a their lives and that of others. together for a better future. positive manner to create change. She pointed out that this year’s Area The Keynote address was delivered by Do not leave today without that reflection Conference also was a chance to celebrate the Hon. Donna Parchment-Brown, who that causes you to identify your value. We the host organisation, JFW, who were expressed her happiness and pleasure in must move forward with courage, courtesy celebrating 70 years of existence and was meeting Ruth and welcoming her to Jamaica, and confidence”. justly proud of its many achievements of as well as the participants represented at the Valerie Veira, Chief Executive Officer of the conference. She declared it was an honour Jamaica Business Development Corporation www.acww.org.uk | 9 COUNTRYWOMAN | OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2015
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 (JBDC) also welcomed guests and delegates. attended a craft display. On day two field trips In her introduction she informed the group were arranged to Seaview Basic Children’s that the JBDC was established in 2001. During School in Hope Bay, Portland, Jamaica, where her presentation she wished that at the the participants were entertained by the end of all the discussions, the delegates and school children. There was also a visit to visitors would leave with a new understanding Lenna’s Farm in Hope Bay, Portland, Jamaica, of what needs to be accomplished. After with the final leg of their journey back to all the speeches and presentations, there Kingston, where they had a one hour visit followed a wonderful luncheon in honour of at The College of Agriculture, Science and the JFW’s 70th anniversary in the Delegates Education (CASE) hosted by President, Dr Dining Room, after which the participants Mary Nichols. Delegates at the conference - Kingston, Jamaica
WORLD CONFERENCE GETTING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK ACWW TRIENNIAL WORLD CONFERENCE AUGUST 2016
In less than a year, members of ACWW train station. This is also your point of arrival will travel from all over the world to attend when using the train from London Euston the 28th Triennial World Conference at to Coventry. Other recommended airports the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. include Gatwick, Stanstead, Luton and East Registration is already taking place and travel Midlands. Busses are a less expensive way to plans need to be made. travel within the UK than trains. Henrietta Schoeman, ACWW Triennial Please note that major transport links They provide a service from all airports Conference Committee (TCC) Chairman from your airport of arrival or London go to mentioned above. You may have to change Coventry, the nearest city. From Coventry, buses. If you travel directly to Birmingham OPEN MIC local buses or taxis will take you to the International Airport, there will be a ENTERTAIN THE University of Warwick campus. Conference shuttle bus service between Heathrow Airport near London is but one Birmingham International Railway Station WORLD of many airports that can be used. (nearby) and the University of Warwick, Do you like to tell jokes or stories, Most airlines can be used to reach provided by Johnsons Coaches on Tuesday sing, dance, be in a skit or play a Heathrow. Go to the website www.heathrow. 16th August and Wednesday 17th August musical instrument? com for more information. From Heathrow 2016 from 8am to 8pm. The cost will be £30 On Friday evening 19th August 2016 when Airport the National Express buses (www. per person, single journey and pre booking is the Triennial World Conference is taking place nationalexpress.com) can be used to get necessary by using the Travel Form received at the University of Warwick, you will have to Coventry in about 2 hours. Trains to by attendees after registering. Taxi services the opportunity to share your talents with Coventry Railway Station depart from are also an option from railway and coach the world. This could be done as a Society, a London Euston Station in Central London. stations but they can be expensive. small group or as an individual. Mainline trains run from Heathrow to We would not recommend hiring a taxi So be creative and join us in entertaining London Paddington Station, on arrival, from London to Coventry or from London the world! If you need further information or transfer to the Underground or to a taxi to the University of Warwick. The United to book your spot, please contact Henrietta for Euston Station. Birmingham International Kingdom does require travel visas from Schoeman, TCC Chairman, via ACWW Airport is situated near by to the Conference certain countries. Please check on the website Central Office. venue and is being used by various airlines and if necessary, please apply in time. The such as Emirates, Air Lingus, Air Canada, visa is usually a tourist visitor visa valid for A CALL FOR Air France, Etihad, Lufthansa and American 6 months and costs and requirements vary Airlines. More information is available on the from country to country. UNWANTED website www.birminghamairport.co.uk. Recommended websites: www. COSTUME JEWELLERY There are also trains running from migrationexpert.co.uk or www.uk.visas.com. The Triennial Conference Committee Birmingham International Airport to The venue for the 2016 ACWW Triennial (TCC) requests all members who will be Coventry (journey time about 10-20 minutes). World Conference is the University of attending the 2016 ACWW Triennial World When arriving in Coventry, local bus number Warwick and more information can be found Conference in August 2016, to bring along 11 or 12 from Warwick Road (a short walk at www.acww.org.uk/triennial. their old and unwanted costume jewellery. from the train station) will take you to the We hope that the information will enable It will be collected and then handed in for University of Warwick campus. The current you to have a safe and hassle free journey recycling. The money collected will be for single bus fare is £2. The exact fare is required when you decide to attend the World ACWW’s Pennies for Friendship fund. The as no change will be given. Local taxis are Conference. Please contact Central Office TCC appreciates your support of ACWW. also generally available outside Coventry if necessary.
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WORLD CONFERENCE
CONFERENCE INFORMATION FOR 28TH TRIENNIAL WORLD CONFERENCE
UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, COVENTRY, UK 17TH - 23RD AUGUST 2016 THEME: WORKING TOGETHER FOR A BETTER FUTURE
TIMETABLE: (Detail may be subject to change)
Wednesday 17 August Registration at University of Warwick. Outgoing Board Meeting
Thursday 18 August Area meetings. Official Opening Ceremony. Plenary
Friday 19 August Thanksgiving Service. Elections. Plenary
Saturday 20 August Plenary. English Night
Sunday 21 August Plenary. Gala Dinner
Monday 22 August Plenary. Closing Ceremony. Area meetings
Tuesday 23 August Excursion Day (optional at £50 per person). Incoming Board Meeting
PLEASE NOTE: THAT ACWW IS NOT RESPONSIBLE IN ANY WAY FOR: • TRAVEL Participants must make their own travel arrangements • INSURANCE All participants are advised of the importance of arranging comprehensive cover for personal accident, personal liability, medical expenses, baggage, cancellation charges, etc. as soon as they register. • VISAS Participants must check whether a visa is required for the UK and apply for that in time.
PLEASE ALSO NOTE: ACWW is not liable for any event beyond its control. These include unusual, unforeseeable or unavoidable events beyond our control, the consequences of which could not be avoided even if due care has been exercised, including but not limited to war, threat of war, riot, civil disobedience or strife, government action, terrorist activity, natural or industrial disaster, fire, adverse weather conditions, level of water in rivers or floods and closure of airports. This will include industrial dispute involving third parties, technical or maintenance problems or unforeseen operational decisions of air carriers, such as changes of schedule or any failure in the information technology infrastructure.
ATTENDANCE AT MEETINGS AND VOTING RIGHTS • The Officers of ACWW • Maximum of 5 voting delegates from each Category I Society • Maximum of 2 voting delegates from each Category II Society • 1 voting delegate from each Category III Society • Chairmen of Specified and Ad Hoc Committees • Category IV (a) and IV (b) members as space allows. • Past World Presidents. • ACWW UN Representatives • Visitors invited at the discretion of the Executive Committee.
Fully paid-up Member Societies may send voting delegates according to membership category. Fully paid-up Individual Members of ACWW may attend as observers as space allows.
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HOW TO REGISTER All fees (registration, day excursion tour and accommodation) will be payable to ACWW. To reduce costs, please pay in one transaction, itemising your requirements on the appropriate section of the form.
Please fill in one form per person.
On-Line Registration • Go to Triennial World Conference section of our website acww.org.uk • Download Registration Form and fill in Conference and Accommodation details as appropriate. • Email completed form to [email protected] and • Pay for Registration and Accommodation together by: • PayPal giving your full name as reference. Note: You do not have to have a PayPal account to use this secure system to pay by credit or debit card. A surcharge is levied by the bank on all credit card transactions and PayPal have a service charge of about 6 percent. It would help ACWW if you would please add 6 percent to PayPal payments and 6 percent to credit/debit card payments
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• An optional interactive form is in development; please check our website for details.
Registration by Post • Complete the Registration Form, sign and date it. • If you would like to keep the information you see on this page, please photocopy and send your registration on the next page to ACWW, Mary Sumner House, 24 Tufton Street, London SWIP 3RB, United Kingdom, together with the Conference registration and accommodation fees payable by PayPal, bank draft/ transfer (details above), credit card or cheque, including bank charges to arrive at our London Central Office no later than the cut-off dates. You can also detach the registration forms. • All cheques and bank drafts should be made payable to the “Associated Country Women of the World.” If you wish to pay by credit card, please download and complete the Card Payment form on the website: www.acww.org.uk (Please note that a surcharge of about 6 percent is levied by the bank on all credit card transactions.) Please ensure to reference with your FULL Name.
Registration Fees • EARLY BIRD conference registration rate is £390 per person to be paid before 16th April 2016. • After 16th April 2016, the fee will rise to £415 per person and the cut-off date will be 1st July 2016. • The Day Delegate rate is £85 per person per day. The cut-off date for Day delegates will be 1st July 2016. No more than 3 days as a day delegate will be allowed. • The Day Excursion is £50 per person. • Optional visits will be arranged for registered spouses, partners, and friends at no extra cost. Details to follow.
Accommodation Fees per person • En suite accommodation with dinner, bed and breakfast at £73 per night. • Shared bathroom facilities (females only): dinner, bed and breakfast at £58 per night (limited availability so will be allocated to those travelling furthest). • Superior Twin or Double rooms are available with dinner, bed and breakfast at £156 per ROOM per night, 2 people.
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REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION FORM ACWW 28TH TRIENNIAL WORLD CONFERENCE
Full Delegates/ Observers: Complete Parts A, B, D, E and F Day participants: Complete Parts A, C, D, E and F Conference No. Spouse/Partner/Friend: Complete Parts A, D, E and F (Office use only)
PART A FULL DELEGATE, OBSERVER, DAY PARTICIPANT, SPOUSE/PARTNER/ FRIEND
Title (Miss/Mrs/Ms/Mr/Dr/Other) Membership no.
Surname First name(s)
Street name and number
Town/City Province/State
Country Postal/Zip code
Telephone (including country and area code):
Mobile (Cell) phone number:
E-mail address
Home language
CONFERENCE FEE PAYABLE BY Full Delegates, Observers and Spouses/Partners/Friends (for whom some optional special visits will be offered). Non Refundable but Transferable, a fee of £10 will be requested if transferred. (Tick)
I enclose £390 (Early Bird Registration) to arrive at Central office no later than 16 April 2016.
I enclose £415 for registration after 16 April 2016 and before 1 July 2016.
PART B FULL DELEGATES AND OBSERVERS
Society Name and Membership Number
PART C DAY PARTICIPANTS ONLY
Day delegate - I will attend on the following day(s) at £85 per day up to maximum 3 days
Thursday 18 August Friday 19 August Saturday 20 August
Sunday 21 August Monday 22 August Total days
PART D DAY EXCURSION TOUR (Tick)
I wish to book the Day Out Tour on Tuesday 23 August @ £50
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PART E ACCOMMODATION: (Dinner, bed and breakfast per person per night)
If Day Participants or spouses/partners/friends wish to make use of the accommodation, they must also complete this part. Please book me the following accommodation
Date in Date out
Total Number of nights At £73 per person per night single en-suite I enclose £
Total Number of nights At £58 per person per night, shared bathrooms (females only) I enclose £
Total Number of nights At £156 per ROOM per night superior en-suite twin / double (delete as appropriate) I enclose £
Twin / Double only I will be sharing with: full name
PART F PAYMENT INCLUDED
REGISTRATION FEE
DAY PARTICIPANT FEE
DAY EXCURSION FEE
ACCOMMODATION
TOTAL PAID
FINAL DATE FOR REGISTRATION IS 1 JULY 2016.
I indemnify ACWW of any liabilities arising from the personal injury or loss of personal property during my attendance at the Conference.
SIGNED: …………………………………………………………………………………………………...... ……..
DATE SENT: …………………………………………………………………………………………………...... …..
ACWW will send confirmation that you have been registered for the Conference.
• Please bring this confirmation to the on-site Registration Desk when you arrive for the Conference.
I REQUIRE A LETTER OF INVITATION FROM THE Hostess Society to support my visa application. ACWW Central Office will forward this to you. (Tick)
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SOCIETY FEEDBACK
HOW DID YOU CELEBRATE 100 YEARS OF THE WOMEN’S INSTITUTE?
In honour of the Centenary the Avon Women’s Institute (WI) in Fordingbridge, England, held a Coffee Morning to raise money and awareness of ACWW’s work. Isabel Brown President of Avon WI said “Soon after 10am the room was buzzing with chatter as everyone enjoyed delicious cakes and snacks bought from the stalls. It was good to have the support of local WIs and the wider community. The morning went by in a flash. We were delighted to make £286 to pass on to ACWW”.
CONGRATULATIONS SALLY GARRINGTON & THANK YOU!
Congratulations went to Sally Rome, ACWW representative at the FAO of Garrington a member of Shropshire the UN. What a lot I learned! I had to begin Federation and ACWW, back in July 2015, by giving an overview of our present day who graduated with a Masters and who global food system, its problems and the place wrote her dissertation on ACWW. Sally of ACWW’s Women Feed the World projects wrote: At the age of 59 I decided (38 years within it. I then investigated and analysed late) to study for my Master’s degree in how projects were chosen, monitored and Sustainable Development at the University how success was evaluated. This study only of Staffordshire via distance learning. I had confirmed my perception of what an amazing been a geography teacher of 16-19 year organisation ACWW is - working from the olds for over 30 years and had become grassroots level upwards and supporting increasingly interested in development and projects that rural women themselves have our inequitable world. identified as what they need. Parts of my When it was time to undertake a dissertation are being copied and used as dissertation of between 12,000 and 13,000 background information for the members of words in the third and final year, we were ACWW’s Agriculture Committee - I am so advised to investigate something we were glad it has been of use beyond me completing really interested in. Having been the ACWW my degree! I was really pleased when I representative for Shropshire for five gained a distinction for my dissertation and years, I decided that this would not only be my MA as a whole, and when graduating interesting but would also leave me better in Staffordshire in July, I was also awarded informed for when I gave talks around the the faculty prize for Best Performance in county. The title of my dissertation was Postgraduate Awards. I regard this as a joint ‘Challenging the Global Food System - the award with all the women at ACWW who role of the NGO Associated Country Women helped me achieve this. of the World’. I had help with finding information not Donating to ACWW only from the dedicated staff at the London More recently Sally sent in a cheque for the Central Office, but also from Margaret impressive amount of £1,000, saying “I want Yetman in Canada, ACWW Deputy President the money to be used where the need is and Agricultural Committee Chairman, Anne greatest”. The money is the remnant from a Marit Hovstad in Norway, Chairman of the legacy with which Sally paid for her Masters Left: Sally Garrington graduation with Dean of Faculty, Projects Committee and Bettina Corke in course. Thank you Sally! receiving her prize after the Graduation Ceremony www.acww.org.uk | 15 COUNTRYWOMAN | OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2015
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WOMEN’S INSTITUTES CELEBRATE CENTENARY
The Women’s Institute of England and Wales, well known for cake and jam making, Buckingham Palace Garden Party friendship and campaigning for women’s rights, marked 100 years this year since it was founded in 1915, with a garden party at Buckingham Palace, London on 2nd June 2015. To help celebrate, every WI in England and Wales was asked to nominate one member to attend with Federation officials, resulting in 8,000+ WI members in attendance. Coaches from all over the country carried members to the event. Eileen Hurd, a member of Binegar WI in Somerset - England, ACWW member and former ACWW P&P Committee member, was one of the lucky few who boarded one of the coaches. Eileen wrote: Our coach stopped in Park Lane, we walked down Constitution Hill and queued for about an hour to get in, whilst waiting we took photos and chatted as Annual General Meeting - Albert Hall Avon County, sang – there was a Fashion WI members do. When we arrived we walked The NFWI Annual Meeting held on the 4th Show of knitwear designed by WI members up a red carpeted staircase through several June at the Albert Hall was a brilliant meeting with Kingston College. Our resolution for formal rooms of Buckingham Palace with and it was also my birthday too – HRH the the year was discussed but found wanting beautiful displays of china and then onto the Queen, Princess Anne and the Countess of and was put to one side – a very democratic terrace and down the steps to the gardens. Wessex attended. The hall was filled with at decision by delegates. There were 40 acres of garden, a lake with least 4,000 members. The Queen received During the lunch hour traditionally ducklings, a rose garden in bloom, follies and a standing ovation when she arrived, and spent by many on the steps near the Albert many mature trees and herbaceous borders. singing ‘Jerusalem’ for her brought goose Memorial, opposite the Albert Hall, – a young Goodness, it was amazing seeing the crowds bumps and a tear to the eyes of many. WI brass band played their repertoire of on the lawns and so many different and Speakers included: historian Lucy Worsley; three tunes learnt in 17 weeks. colourful outfits. Two military bands were Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson DBE and Finally, the meeting ended with the singing playing, the Yeoman of the Guard marched at Helena Morrisey CBE. We had live links with of ‘Jerusalem’, ‘Land of my Fathers’ and the about 3pm and the Royals, the Duchess of Anglesey Federation Wales, where the first National Anthem with the wonderful Albert Cornwall, Princess Alexandra, the Countess WI - Llanfair PG - was formed 100 years ago, Hall organ. Members were given a small piece of Wessex and Countess of Gloucester Great Torrington WI Devon and Social Lites of special celebration cake. It was a fantastic arrived and walked through corridors of WI Cheshire. The winning WI choir for our few days in London – one of the highlights of WI members. I was introduced to Princess centenary year - the Bleadon Belles from our WI centenary year. Alexandra, where I managed a small curtsey, before briefly telling her news about ACWW. The food was delicious - dainty sandwiches OXFORDSHIRE FEDERATION COLLECTS and cakes served with tea, coffee and juice. There were so many people to meet – finally FOREIGN COINS IN AID OF ACWW the Yeoman of the Guard escorted ‘the For the past 18 months members of the Oxfordshire Royals’ out of the garden, giving us another Federations of Women’s Institutes have been encouraged opportunity to view them all. Later I saw to donate their unwanted foreign coins, as a means of Valerie Stevens, ACWW’s European Area raising funds towards three ACWW Projects they have President, by the stairs to the terrace as we adopted, one in Romania, one in India and the other in left. Somerset members met on the way out Uganda. Through their effects and to their delight they to our coach, having enjoyed a wonderful managed to realise the magnificent sum of £1,062.31, experience with so many WI friends. which has helped them reach their target goal and now Several of us stayed in London on the means they can look towards the future to select and 3rd June, where the day included shopping support additional ACWW Projects. Needless to say in Kensington High Street and a visit to the they are now starting again with a new appeal for any theatre, as we wanted to attend the Annual unwanted coins. General Meeting the next day.
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BUCKINGHAMSHIRE ACWW’S EUROPEAN AREA FEDERATION PRESIDENT VISITS GERMANY PROMOTE ACWW AT WI CENTENARY GARDEN PARTY
Left to right: Colla Schumacher; Jackie Gregory, Chair West Midlands Federation of WIs; Heike Schnepel, Vice President of LandFrauenverband, Hannover; Valerie Stevens, ACWW European Area President and Marie Vogel, General Sec. of LandFrauenverband, Hannover.
Valerie Stevens, ACWW European Area from the Worcester Federation left from President wrote: What began around 1986 Birmingham Airport to meet their hosts in as a conversation at an ACWW conference Hannover. Friendships, understanding and Left to right: Tracey Girdler-Rogers and Hilary Forbes between the ACWW Pen Friend Co- mutual respect were all too evident as we members of Buckinghamshire Federation WI, England ordinator and Betty Steel from the Worcester embarked on visits to Worlitz, Wittenburg, Federation of WIs, resulted in 25 years of Gorlitz, Colditz and Hannover; to gardens The photo above was taken at exchange visits between WI members and of all shapes and sizes; to churches, castles the Centenary Garden Party, which members of the Landfrauen group based and monasteries. We had boat trips and Buckinghamshire Federation held at near Hannover, Germany. Lynda Bagley a excellent food. Staying in the home of Colla Waddesdon Manor in Aylesbury, Worcestershire FWI and ACWW member, and Henning Schumacher, who have hosted Buckinghamshire, a National Trust property. who has organised the English side of the members of the group for a number of years, It shows a blue bowl behind Tracey exchange on behalf of, and with the support in the huge, old, family farm-house, was a Girdler-Rogers and Hilary Forbes, both of, the Worcestershire FWI, wrote “In 1988 wonderful experience. They were generous Buckinghamshire Federation members, which Betty received a reply from Inge Rommert in every respect and I am grateful to them was filled with water and had a lemon floating and they exchanged letters and magazines. In for some understanding of pig-farming, in it. Members were invited to balance a 20p 1990 Inge organised a coach tour to England chicken-rearing and the anxieties related coin on top of the lemon, trying to make it for her group from Uetze. to Bio-mass energy production. There is stay for at least 3 seconds; if successful they They planned to go to Canterbury, London always something new to learn. Although would win £1. and Oxford. Inge asked Betty if they could the ‘official’ exchange is now at an end, the The Federation made around £44, with come to Worcestershire and see how the friendships made will continue. ACWW had them only losing £1 in the whole day. Hilary ‘real English’ lived... A programme of visits and little to do with the continuing programme of said “Others might be interested in this activities was agreed, finishing with a barn- exchanges but it made a vital contribution at fundraising idea. It’s a good way of raising dance at a member’s farm”. the start. It also gave me the opportunity to a few extra ‘Pennies for Friendship’ at a The practical results of that conversation attempt to strengthen ACWW links with the coffee morning or equivalent”. In total the were all too clear for me to see as I was LandFrauenverband of Hannover. We need Federation raised £200.03 from both their privileged to be part of what was to be the the support of all our European member Centenary Garden Party and ACWW’s 2015 last of the 15 exchange visits over the past societies if we are to advance the quality of Women Walk the World event. 25 years. Thirteen members and friends life for women everywhere. www.acww.org.uk | 17 COUNTRYWOMAN | OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2015
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KOSTER WAU CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL DAY IN SOUTH AFRICA
CELEBRATING 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF WEST MIDLANDS FEDERATION & 100 YEARS OF WI 15th September 2015 marked 40 years since the West Midlands Federation become an official organisation. On the 16th September they celebrated the occasion with a Luncheon at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Members of Koster Women’s Agricultural Union, South Africa Birmingham. Congratulations! West Midlands Federation share this date In July 2015 the Koster Women’s Agricultural Union (WAU) celebrated Nelson Mandela with the centenary of the National Federation International Day, with a visit to the Lebone II College of the Royal Bafokeng Nation. The of Women’s Institutes, whose first WI meeting college was built on the side of the beautiful Tshufi Hill, overlooking the communities it serves. in the UK took place on 16 September 1915 It is more than a school; it is a centre of excellence and a catalyst for change for the whole at Llanfairpwll on Anglesey in Wales. Bafokeng community, with 70% of students coming from the Bafokeng villages themselves.
MAKING HATS FOR PENNIES FOR FRIENDSHIP
An interesting fundraiser took place at the annual congress of the Women’s Agriculture Union (WAU) of Mpumalanga, South Africa, on the 19th and 20th of August 2015. With only 20 minutes on the clock, attendees had to make hats with the contents of a mystery surprise packet containing an array of items. After completion each group had to model their creation. The auction was in good spirit and even posted on Facebook and the person with the highest number of likes received a prize.
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RUSTENBURG WAU BRANCHES GIRLS & BOYS WORKSHOP
In July 2015, with the help of Jubenette, The first session was spent cutting out how bullies act and how victims should react. Kashané, Marikana and the Mosaïek Women’s mosaic hearts that Rustenburg WAU offered The second session started after the children Agricultural Union branches, Rustenburg as a project. Many members were willing to enjoyed more refreshments. Women’s Agricultural Union (WAU), South lend a helping hand in assisting the children to Not only did the children master a craft, Africa, hosted a two day craft skills workshop make their own unique heart. but they also attended a cupcake decoration for 35 children. Louise van Zyl, a social worker, gave a talk demo. They learned how to knit and After registration, the children and the on bullying and answered many questions constructed birdfeeders with recycled toilet WAU members enjoyed refreshments from her young audience who were often the rolls. At the end of the day’s activities the provided by WAU members. victim of bullies. She showed a short video on children sat down to a scrumptious lunch.
FRANCISTOWN of the United Congregational Church of VISITING DULLSTROOM Southern Africa. The Francistown Women’s WOMEN’S INSTITUTE Institute (WI) have assisted the centre in EPILEPSY CENTRE IN VISITS LEPHOI CENTRE various projects both through financial and SOUTH AFRICA FOR THE BLIND & emotional support. The centre still needs assistance to make the place more user VISUALLY IMPAIRED friendly to the visually impaired in the way of braille computers and medical aid assistance. As some of the children are deaf as well as blind, they also need specialist doctors and sometimes overseas treatment. The children at Lephoi are taught to be independent, enabling them to handle difficult situations and academic life skills, so as to be able to make a living. The centre also has a great choir, which is conducted by one of the former students who is now their music teacher. For their project of 2015, the ladies of Third from right: Mabel Moyo, ACWW Africa Southern Area Mabel Moyo, ACWW’s Area President President with members of the Francistown WI and nurses Fleur de Lis branch in Nelspruit, South Africa Southern, who visited the centre, said Africa went to Dullstroom Epileptic Centre The Lephoi Centre is located in “As the children returned from the holidays to donate knotted polar fleece blankets to Francistown Botswana. The hostel is you could tell the love and care provided by the residents. The women worked diligently residence to about 50 children that are totally the school as they seemed so happy to be to make their visit a success. As well as the blind, or have serious impaired vision. The back. I give many praises and thanks to the fleece blankets they also decided to donate children range from 8 to 18 years old, they school board and staff in conjunction with food and lap blankets. Some of the fleece are taught braille in Setswana and English and ACWW and Francistown WI for such a blankets had been knotted and others were other skills such as beading and art. tremendous job in looking after the children knotted and tied by the residents of the When the children are ready they are and bringing a smile and hope for the future. centre itself during the WI’s visit. Thanks to integrated as far as possible with other It made me very proud as the Area a generous donation they could also give to children at the same educational level. The President to have such committed members each of the residents a pair of bed socks to hostel is administered by the Botswana Synod as the Francistown WI”. make their winter a bit warmer. www.acww.org.uk | 19 COUNTRYWOMAN | OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2015
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TONGA and planting materials. The women will also be involved in seasonal fruit-picking in New Nursery and Home Gardens for Food involved in the preparation and the cultivation Zealand and Australia. In the final stage of Production of the land. They will have the opportunity the project, it is hoped and anticipated that Project no. 0959 to take part in training workshops in activities to educate the women in home Organisation: ‘Aloua Ma’a Tonga Association activities such as cooking, ensuring a healthy garden skills, small-scale business skills, Supported by: Norfolk FWI, Suffolk West FWI, environment and to be educated about cooking and environmental awareness will be Berkshire FWI, Suffolk East FWI, England; FWI’s climate change. The aim of this programme implemented. These aspects of the project are of Northern Ireland is to ensure the participants gain skills to expected to provide the women with lasting Families from the lower income bracket provide resources to support themselves and skills to enable them to provide for their from the villages of Kolomotu and Popua in their families. families over the long-term. Tonga face a daily struggle to cover expenses The project team has reported on the Following the eventual conclusion of this for education and medicine. This is made achievements of the project to date. Overall, food project, it is hoped that the nursery will more difficult by the lack of available job it paints a very positive picture. The nursery go on to sustain itself - with the necessary opportunities for the inhabitants of the has been completed, with a total of 300 maintenance - for many years. In this way, it villages. Unsafe and unsanitary conditions in planting materials currently installed, whilst could benefit generations of women and men these areas have encouraged the spread of fifteen women have received materials and in the villages, helping them to improve their a number of illnesses among the locals. tools to use in establishing their own food livelihoods by providing a stable source of The ’Aloua Ma’a Tonga Association’ have gardens. Ten have started off by planting food; and offering them greater opportunities sought to find solutions to the predicament flowers, traditional medicinal plants and fruit that come with greater food stability and facing these communities. They planned trees. Furthermore, the women are also nutritional well-being. Hopefully the benefits to offer twenty women from low-income working on activities to improve their of home-grown food and healthy eating habits backgrounds an opportunity to be involved in income and their livelihoods. will encourage the whole community, who the establishment of a plant nursery, providing These activities include handicrafts, will witness the impact it has on the lives of them with a continuous supply of seedlings agriculture, livestock and getting their families the women who participated in this project.
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or social life. 25 were trained in tailoring and 15, who had already received tailoring training, were trained in fashion technology. The young women were provided with board and lodging during the six-month training period. Personal contact and counselling were offered to those who found it difficult to adjust to communal living and group activities. It has been reported by ARBOR Charitable Foundation that the trainees have acquired a good level of skills, as a result of their hard work and the patience of the instructors. It is expected that the beneficiaries will be able to earn a living either through self-employment or employment with local businesses.
INDIA out. For this project they purchased the Self-Employment through Training in necessary sewing machines, Khaja button Fashion Technology machine and embroidery machines, as well as Project no. 0955 over lock threads and flat lock threads. Organisation: ARBOR Charitable Foundation The machines were installed in the training Supported by: Shropshire FWI, England; Mrs premises, which were provided by the Bishop Isobel Eckersley, Scottish Women’s Institutes; of Khammam Diocese. 40 young women Omagh WI, FWI’s of Northern Ireland were selected from the nearby communities ARBOR Charitable Foundation reports to benefit from the project. They are illiterate that this project has been successfully carried and have little idea of social communication
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PROGRESS REPORT records, improving their organisation skills, and developing business plans has been successfully completed. Some of the beneficiaries have also taken part in trade exhibitions to market their new products and connect with other small-scale businesses in the region. Throughout this programme, the benefits of togetherness and connections have been emphasised. Monthly meetings have been organised, in which small-scale farmers have the opportunity to meet and build working relationships with other farmers and business owners. It is through establishing such formal networks that Sain Tus Centre NGO hopes its beneficiaries will gain economically over the longer term, as connections will help them sell their products, learn from their peers and broaden their markets. Overall, Sain Tus Centre NGO are positive about the manner in which the project plan MONGOLIA area by constructing greenhouses in which has been implemented so far. They are on Greenhouse Development crops can be grown effectively. The project track and have faced no major hold-ups Project no. 0973 also seeks to improve the capacity of the or difficulties in delivering their work. As a Organisation: Sain Tus Centre NGO female farmers through a variety of financial result, they have not had to alter any of their Supported by: USA Area and organisational training programmes. planned activities and are looking forward The region of Jargalant Sum in the province This project has made steady progress to delivering the remainder of their planned of Khovd, Mongolia, is a vast rural area that in achieving its objectives since being work. This work will involve the purchase is extremely sparsely populated. Whilst much granted ACWW funding back in October and installation of the two large greenhouses of this region is pastoral land, growing crops 2014. Whilst the main body of the work (which measure 6 metres by 20 metres), with effectively in this environment can be very (the installation of the two greenhouses) is full heating and irrigation systems. Whilst this challenging, making it difficult for farmers to yet to be completed, a number of training is no simple task, the team are confident that have viable livelihoods. This project, planned sessions have taken place. Training on they have the ability to deliver it successfully; and run by Sain Tus Centre NGO, seeks to greenhouse planting programmes have been helping to leave a lasting, positive legacy for improve the situation for 30 families in the ongoing, whilst training on keeping financial the rural women farmers in the region.
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UGANDA Compress Recycled Materials for Smokeless Charcoal Briquettes Project no. 0987 Organisation: Nyakasanga Development Community Foundation (NYAKU) Supported by: Hertfordshire FWI; Cumbria- Westmorland FWI, England This project specifically targets the health and income generating ability of rural women in Uganda. Women do the vast majority of the cooking in rural societies, spending many hours on average in small, smoke- filled kitchens; this causes them a range of respiratory problems that affect their quality still lacking a solar dryer. Once received, this programmes on community mobilisation, of life. This project aims to improve their device would be used to dry the charcoal waste recycling and technology have been health and economic well-being by training briquettes in a very short amount of time, carried out with the beneficiaries. women beneficiaries in the manufacturing thereby speeding up the manufacturing This project is seeing progress towards and sale of compressed smokeless charcoal process. The group are encountering some achieving its outcomes, which are threefold: briquettes, made from a range of waste small challenges in transporting briquettes to creating employment for the women, reducing products. They are considerably safer to use the marketplace to sell them, as they are very air pollution and reducing deforestation. in cooking than regular charcoal or wood. bulky. However, sales are going well at this Substantial progress is recorded in all three To date almost all equipment has been stage. The raw material collection process has areas, with the women benefiting from the purchased for the project, with the group been going smoothly, and a range of training loan and savings facility established through www.acww.org.uk | 21 COUNTRYWOMAN | OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2015
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this programme, the briquettes proving a healthier alternative to charcoal; and the use INDIA running, and that they had also taken part of waste products in the briquettes resulting Training in Weaving to Ten Women of in handwork classes. A number of spaces in reduced deforestation levels in the local which Three are Handicapped available to participants in the project were area. Overall, the project team evaluate that Project no. 0952 left for disabled women. the project is making good progress so far. Organisation: Country Women’s Association In assessing their ongoing work, it was Ten sacks of briquettes have been sold so of India found that the activities had been very far at a cost of 100,000 Ugandan shillings each Supported by: Oxfordshire FWI, England successful, with the participants coming (around £18). This project was visited by ACWW’s World to benefit from a cooperative learning There have been no major deviations from President Ruth Shanks A.M. and ACWW atmosphere that linked them directly to the project plan, and the rest of the project Projects Committee member, Sister Viji, in markets. In summary, Ruth and Sister Viji is anticipated to be delivered in the same January 2015. They spent time assessing the found the group to be genuine and passionate way. In the second half of the project, the group’s progress on the project, meeting with about their work, and could find many funds will be used to deliver radio talks about staff and talking to participants in the project examples of how their work was bringing NYAKU’s work to help spread awareness; and activities about what they had gained from lasting benefits to the most vulnerable in to undertake a full monitoring and evaluation the work so far. society. Country Women’s Association of of the project and its effectiveness. In speaking to participants involved in the India, who ran this project, has more than Aside from this, funds will be used to project, the monitors found that they had 90 years’ experience in the field of rural continue the ongoing activities associated all benefited substantially from the weaving women’s development, and seems well set to with the production and sale of briquettes. training programmes that the group had been continue this work into the future.
UGANDA latrines for the women. The project staff FINAL REPORT Nyaka Grannies Project Phase 3 had to deal with a number of challenges Project no. 0962 throughout the course of this work, such as Organisation: Nyaka AIDS Foundation the difficulty of transporting materials by foot Supported by: North Yorkshire East FWI, England through very hilly terrain in some rural areas. This project, planned and delivered by A key aim of this project from the initiation Nyaka AIDS Foundation in Uganda, has sought to implementation has been to empower to provide additional help to a number of girls and women. Many women had previously elderly ‘grandparents’ living in rural areas been forced to leave the house to use the in the districts of Rukungiri and Kanungu toilet, leaving them at risk of harassment and in South West Uganda. These women are sexual assault. caregivers to very small children who have The project team expects such incidents become orphans of AIDS, which has placed to decrease substantially in households with pressure on their lives. The project has proper sanitary facilities. During the project targeted those whose sanitary facilities are implementation, members of the households non-existent, or in poor conditions and has received training on how to maintain the provided them with new constructions, with pit latrines, through smearing the walls with the aim of promoting improved standards of sand and cow dung, whilst also learning good hygiene and safety. Nyaka AIDS Foundation hygiene practices such as the importance of has now concluded this work, and views hand-washing and ensuring the latrine hole it as a great success. 20 ‘Grannies’ were was always covered when not in use. successfully identified on the basis of having This training and awareness should stand the greatest need. Contractors were then the beneficiaries of this work in good stead identified and construction began on pit for many generations to come. 22 | www.acww.org.uk COUNTRYWOMAN | OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2015
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SOUTH AFRICA handicraft, embroidery and cooking, as well My Name is Woman as training on information and nutrition, HIV, Project no. 0925 finance and many more. Many women also Organisation: South African Women’s received training in entrepreneurship, leaving Agricultural Union (SAWAU) them qualified to start up small businesses. Supported by: Cheshire FWI, England An estimated 1,000 women directly This project run by the South African benefited from this project, empowering them Women’s Agricultural Union (SAWAU), is on various levels to put them in a position working with disadvantaged women’s groups where they can share these valuable skills all over South Africa, teaching skills such as with their local communities. BANGLADESH Disabled Women and Girls FINAL REPORT Rehabilitation Programme • they are saving money and can scrutinise Project no. 0934 their bank accounts Organisation: POWER (Platform of Women’s • they are out of the clutches of Empowerment and Rights) moneylenders Supported by: Glamorgan FWI, Wales; • they received training in order to Avon FWI, England participate in the monitoring of the project POWER (Platform of Women’s • they have a sustainable source of income: Empowerment and Rights), reported that if the cow gives birth to a bull calf, it can the direct beneficiaries of this project titled be sold; if a heifer is born, it will in due ‘Disabled Women and Girls Rehabilitation course also produce milk Programme’ were disabled women and girls, • they also get income from the vermi - who were very poor and lacked the capacity INDIA compost sales to improve their situation by themselves. Empowering Rural Women in Economy • they are able to feed their children better Through this project 25 beneficiaries and Nutrition and send them to school gained skills in sewing, embroidery or Project no. 0957 Hazel Armstrong, ACWW’s Projects bamboo/cane production, having first had an Organisation: Sarojini Naidu Rural Welfare and Committee member and project monitor, individual action plan drawn up for each Education Trust monitored this project in January 2015. She of them by the project staff. Supported by: Gloucestershire FWI, England reports: These village cows are cheaper to In addition to the 25 women and girls Sarojini Naidu Rural Welfare and buy and give around 4 to 6 litres per day but who were selected, approximately 125 family Education Trust report that this project thrive better in the harsh hot dry conditions members of the beneficiaries have benefitted has been completed successfully and that than the Hybrid cows, which can give more from the project. All these beneficiaries are the 25 women beneficiaries have become milk but in dry times their yields can now helping each other to improve their empowered in the following ways: drop substantially. standard of living. • they have experience in rearing a cow and They use a sieving machine for the The beneficiaries have also received obtaining milk from it for sale accumulated cattle dung, which has been training in health education and human rights • they have been selling milk and curd to the kept in a heap with worms, is sieved of small and received free medical care, which has local cooperative society and to hotels and stones and un-composted material – the improved their physical and psychological collecting the money once a month worms are also separated and returned to well-being considerably, and made them feel • they are also selling the vermi-compost the heap. The resultant compost is produced more empowered. As a result of this project, which they are producing using worms very quickly, has a fine texture and is a highly there is a high demand for the products being cow dung saleable item. sold at local markets. www.acww.org.uk | 23 FOR SALE ADVERTISE YOUR ACCOMMODATION WITH US VAT REG. NO 240 0467 05. Delegates, members and representatives all round the world are All prices are exclusive of postage & packing always on the look out for accommodation, especially in the lead
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