UN International Day of Education, 24 January, 2022
In recognition of this important date, the Canadian Federation of University Women: St. Catharines and West Vancouver Clubs invite GWI members from around the world to a conversation about the impact of the pandemic on the education of girls and women.
This conversation began a dialogue that continued during 3 Focus Groups hosted for UNESCO, by GWI, on January 24. The discussions explored current problems facing girls’ education and identified possible solutions.
A Walk to Remember to honour the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls was held in North Vancouver on December 6. The poster follows. Members of our joint club Issues and Action interest group will be attending and would love to have you join them.
Our Rally of Solidarity with the Afghan women and Girls took place on November 7 at 2 pm on the North Plaza of the Vancouver Art Gallery.
CFUW WV and CFUW NV partnered with the Vancouver branch of Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan. Fifty of our members attended the rally. Margaret Harrington, CFUW NV member and convenor of our Issues and Action interest group welcomed people and spoke of why CFUW was standing in solidarity. Lauryn Oates, Executive Director of CW4Wafghan, spoke with passion about the loss of educational opportunities for secondary school girls under the return of the Taliban. That is compounded of course by the humanitarian crisis that has unfolded in Afghanistan with the Taliban’s seizure of power.
That evening we were in a short news clip with voiceover on Global TV news.
CFUW Ottawa has for years had an Interest group called University Women Helping Afghan Women. They recently had a webinar with CFUW members from across Canada and that ‘”special meeting’ of members and friends from across the country revealed a great willingness on the part of the participants to work to raise awareness of the plight of the Afghan people, especially women, girls and their families, and to do what we could to help them.”
