Transcript Focusing on Zonta’s Mission Zonta International seeks to improve the legal, political, economic, health, educational and professional status of women through service and.

Focusing on Zonta’s Mission
Zonta International seeks to improve the legal, political,
economic, health, educational and professional status of
women through service and advocacy.
At the international level
Zonta supports educational scholarships, violence
prevention programs and international service projects,
with funding from the Zonta International Foundation.
At the local level
Clubs support Zonta’s mission through service and
advocacy projects that serve the needs of women in
their local community.
International Service Projects
International Service Projects seek to
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Economic
Educational
Health
Legal
status of women in developing countries or
countries in transition.
Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission
of HIV in Rwanda
By the numbers:
190,000 Rwandans,
including 27,000 children,
are HIV positive…
90% of children with HIV contracted the virus from their
mothers during pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding.
Almost all of these cases could have been prevented
if the mother had access to proper medical treatment.
Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission
of HIV in Rwanda
UNICEF (US$600,000)
This project can virtually eliminate the passage of HIV
from mother to child by providing:
• HIV testing and counseling
• Health care
• Prenatal and obstetrical services
• Antiretroviral medications during
pregnancy
• Nutritional support
• Income-generating activities
Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission
of HIV in Rwanda
1. Action: advocacy and sensitization
campaigns among religious leaders and
local authorities
Result: more women are expected to deliver at the
health facility.
2. Action: increased male participation in
PMTCT + services Result: more women,
children and families will be reached and services
will be more effective.
3. Action: improve skills of existing anti-AIDS
clubs in 7 secondary schools
Result: improved quality of messages shared with
peers for appropriate behavior change.
Safe Cities for Women in Guatemala
and El Salvador
UNIFEM (US$600,000)
In El Salvador an estimated
1,000 women were murdered
between 1999 and 2005.
More than 3,200 Guatemalan
women have been kidnapped,
murdered, and in many cases,
raped, tortured and mutilated
in the last seven years.
Safe Cities for Women
UNIFEM will make these dangerous
cities safer for women by:
• Focusing on urban violence as
a gender issue,
• strengthening women’s rights
to active citizenship,
• educating the public about
violence against women, and
• helping women collaborate with the local government and
urban planners to create public policies that decrease the
risk of violence against women.
Safe Cities for Women in Guatemala
and El Salvador
Negotiations with local women’s organizations and
authorities are in process.
1. UNIFEM will develop and implement policies on
urban violence that specifically address the needs of
women and the prevalence of violence against women
in this environment.
2. The women’s organizations will identify risks and
potential solutions, advocate for more effective antiviolence policies and participate in urban planning
aimed at making the cities safer.
3. They will launch sensitization campaigns and stage
local interventions in order to educate the public and
to decrease violence against women.
Reduction of Obstetric Fistula in Liberia
UNFPA (US$450,000)
What is obstetric fistula?
Obstetric fistula is a hole in the birth canal
caused by prolonged labor without prompt
medical intervention, leaving women with:
• chronic incontinence,
• a stillborn baby (in most cases), and
• the continuous smell of leaking urine or feces, or both.
Left untreated, fistula can lead to ulcerations, kidney disease,
and nerve damage in the legs. Source: http://www.endfistula.org/fistula_brief.htm
Reduction of Obstetric Fistula in Liberia
UNFPA will contribute to the elimination of obstetric
fistula and the reduction of maternal and newborn
mortality by ensuring:
• Access to quality fistula treatment and
improved emergency obstetric care
• Supporting women socially and
economically to start a new life in their
communities.
Reduction of Obstetric Fistula in Liberia
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Outreach activities have been initiated
36 Fistula cases were repaired
Dignity kits were provided for patients in Lofa
Fistula surgical repair kits were provided to Hospitals
Vocational and literacy skills training were conducted
Starter kits were procured and shared with 17 Fistula survivors
after skills training.
Zonta International Strategies to Prevent
Violence Against Women (ZISVAW)
ZISVAW Projects seek to
reduce the incidence of
violence against women and
girls by changing the
personal and/or political
knowledge, attitudes and
behaviors contributing to
violence against women.
Ending Violence Against Women through
Community Action in Cambodia (US$300,000)
This project works with women’s and men’s
community groups to:
• change harmful attitudes and behaviors
through education and counseling,
• advocate for the enforcement of laws
that protect women,
• teach women their legal rights and assist them in accessing
the legal system and social services,
• provide counseling to perpetrators and potential perpetrators
to change them into non-violent male role models.
Combating Physical Violence Against Women and
Supporting the Implementation of Protective and
Anti-discriminatory Laws and Policies in Egypt
(US$200,000)
• Supports the implementation of
laws prohibiting the performance of
genital mutilation,
• provides legal, medical and
psychological aid to women, and
• helps shelters better respond to
needs and rights of women
survivors of violence.
Community-based Center for Housing and
Rehabilitation of Women Victims of Violence in Syria
(US$100,000)
A “one-stop centre” providing:
• legal advice for women,
• access to education, and
vocational training,
• family counseling, and
• counseling for perpetrators
of violence against women.
What can you do in your community?
Identify and respond to local opportunities to prevent
violence against women and advance women’s
education, health care, legal rights,
and economic security.
For example:
• Work with local authorities to reform public
policies to make neighbourhoods and
campuses safer for women.
• Increase women’s and girls’ access to local
preventative health care programs (e.g.,
mammograms, vaccinations, and Pap smears).
What can you do in your community?
• Support local HIV/AIDS testing, counseling,
and treatment programs for pregnant
women.
• Collaborate with local media, healthcare
professionals, and police officials to prevent
and respond to violence against women.
• Participate in the global 16 Days of Activism
Against Gender Violence Campaign
(25 November - 10 December).
What can you do in your community?
• Advocate for the implementation of local
and national policies, laws and action
plans on ending violence against women.
• Mentor girls interested in fields in which
women are under-represented.
• Encourage women to apply for an AE
Fellowship, JMK Scholarship, or YWPA
Award.
Zonta International Commitments
Our success depends on contributions to Annual Funds to support the
charitable and educational programs of Zonta International.
• Amelia Earhart Fund supports graduate (PhD) fellowships for
women studying aerospace related sciences and engineering.
• International Service Fund supports projects that seek to
improve the economic, educational, health, or legal status of women.
• Jane M. Klausman Fund supports scholarships for young
women pursuing careers in business management.
• Young Women in Public Affairs Fund supports awards to
encourage young women to participate in public and political life.
• ZISVAW Fund supports projects that seek to reduce the
incidence of violence against women and girls.
Zonta International Commitments
Fundraising Commitments 2010-2012
• Every Zonta Club contributes at least onethird of all service funds collected to the
Zonta International Foundation. Where this
is not applicable, other ways should be
found to contribute “your portion.”
• Every Zontian makes an individual annual
gift to the Foundation.
• Every Zontian investigates and considers a
planned gift to our Foundation.
Why should we give to the Foundation?
• 70 percent of the world’s 1.3 billion are
poor women.
• Two-thirds of the illiterate adults in the
world are women and two-thirds of the
children not in school today are girls.
• 60 million women who should be alive
today are “missing” because of violence
associated with gender discrimination.
Why should we give to the
Foundation?
• Every month of every year, more than
40,000 women in developing nations die
from pregnancy-related causes.
• Women comprise 48% of the workforce,
yet less than 5% hold senior management
positions and only 10% hold seats in the
world’s parliaments.
• Every year, an estimated 4 million women
and girls are bought and sold worldwide.