Secondly, please read these words from Reeta Ahonen, the new Young BPW Representative for Finland!

 

Dear Viktoria,

I heard about BPW from an acquaintance of mine and I decided to find out more about it. At first I had really not much of an idea what it was all about... Little by little I started to figure it out and I really like the different opportunities BPW has to offer. Now I'm also trying to find out ways to get more Young BPW's to join us.

 

That is what my task is really about: to inspire the young members to be active both locally and nationally and perhaps even internationally :)

 

With best regards from Tampere,

Reeta Ahonen

 

Reeta, all the best for your “job” – have fun, enjoy it. And for any questions, you have “colleagues” you can contact!

 

 

Enjoy spring and the sun. And have success and brilliant moments with your plans!

 

With my best wishes,

Viktoria Balensiefen

Young BPW Europe Representative

2005 - 2008

 

 

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Young BPW International Newsletter

For the next edition of the international Newsletter, I urgently ask for your support. Please read the mail form Nadia, the Editor:

 

Hi Viktoria,

Good to hear from you. Please send me an article about young BPW Europe’s interesting events or projects that you think will be of interest to participants of the young BPW International congress. Also send me some interesting pictures of these events. We intend to use the newsletter as a marketing tool to attract new members at the conference..

 

Please keep in mind: this Newsletter issued along the Congress will be a printed version. All in all, the Newsletter can be a wonderful Marketing-Tool, we all can use – if we do send in materials. Please check about any news from your country and mail this to me as soon as possible.

 

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Young BPW at the CSW

Mai Dang-Goy, Young BPW from BPW Munich / Germany did send us her travel-report. See at this picture, that this also was a great fun!

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Young BPW International Award

You remember, last year, we had the chance to apply for the Young BPW International Award within the categories "Empower the Youth" and "Young BPW at Work". Young BPW Europe did also apply with a project. Now, the winners are confirmed:

 

I would like to inform you the results of the Young BPW Awards. I forwarded all projects and essays to the President and I have received the final selections.  

Young BPW Australia has received the "Empower the Youth" Award. Young BPW Cayman Island has received the "Young BPW at Work" Award.  The winners will get Euro 400 subsidy for the airfare to allow the winners to attend the international meeting. 

Best regards, Rooma

 

The Winners will have a presentation at the Congress in Seoul. So we will have a wonderful report about these both initiatives a little bit later.

 

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BPW Bale and BPW Weil: Candlelight  Ceremony on March, 9^th 2007

Thanks to the invitation of BPW Bale, I joined the Candlelight Ceremony. It was a very very nice evening. And also we did welcome three new Young BPW members for the Club Weil. To my eyes, the wonderful thing is, that these Clubs, who are doing the Ceremonies together, are member two different Federations: BPW Switzerland and BPW Germany. So this is a very good example for border-crossing cooperation.

 

 

 

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Unesco 2007 International Award: Essay Contest for Young People

This is an opportunity for ESSAY competition by UNESCO & Goi Peace Foundation on "The role of media and information and communication technologies in building a peaceful world."   The deadline for entry is June 30, 2007. First prize winners will receive a cash award and a trip to Japan. The essay can be in English, French, Spanish or German. The author must be 25 years old or younger. Please consider to join and please let me know if you do so! For details check the attached mail!

 

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The Unfinished Story of Women and the United Nations – Download-Book!

The Unfinished Story of Women and the United Nations covers more than eighty-five years of history between women and inter-governmental organizations. Unrecorded by history and untold by the media, this book recalls the success story of women and the League of Nations and describes the unfolding history of women at the United Nations for the advancement and empowerment of women, especially in the 30 years since the First UN World Conference on Women in 1975 in Mexico City and up to the ten-year review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in 2005. This book revises the 2002 publication Engendering the Global Agenda: The Story of Women and the United Nations, produced as the tenth volume in the NGLS Development Dossier series.

Direct Link to Book Download: http://www.un-ngls.org/pdf/UnfinishedStory.pdf

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Call for BPW Success stories on Poverty Eradication – show your story at the UN!

For the UN Success stories are collected. The story will be posted on the web site of  Annual Ministerial Review (AMR) Innovation Fair (a new  functions of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) which will be introduced in the 2007 substantive session of the ECOSOC in Geneva in July 2007). Does you and your BPW Club or Federation would also like to submit BPW projects / activities for this, please send this to member.services@bpw-international.org . Deadline is 20 April 2007. For details see attached mail.

 

Dear all,

 

I received this poem from  Lynn Robinson (former Africa BPW Regional

Coordinator).  While I don't know the  author (Kamla Bhasin) in person,

I think it stimulate the right way of thinking for girls, so I would like to

share it with you.

 

Warm regards,

 

Nok

 

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BECAUSE I AM A GIRL, I MUST STUDY

A father asks his daughter:
Study? Why should you study?
I have sons aplenty who can study
Girl, why should you study?
 
The daughter tells her father:
since you ask, here's why I must study.
Because I am a girl, I must study.
 
Long denied this right, I must study
For my dreams to take flight, I must study
Knowledge brings new light, so I must study
For the battles I must fight, I must study
Because I am a girl, I must study.
 
To avoid destitution, I must study
To win independence, I must study
To fight frustration, I must study
To find inspiration, I must study
Because I am a girl, I must study.
 
To fight men's violence, I must study
To end my silence, I must study
To challenge patriarchy I must study
To demolish all hierarchy, I must study.
Because I am a girl, I must study.
 
To mould a faith I can trust, I must study
To make laws that are just, I must study
To sweep centuries of dust, I must study
To challenge what I must, I must study
Because I am a girl, I must study.
 
To know right from wrong, I must study.
To find a voice that is strong, I must study
To write feminist songs I must study
To make a world where girls belong, I must study.
Because I am a girl, I must study.
 
-- Kamla Bhasin - India

 

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Dates for your Diary:

08. - 10.05.07:   BPW Hanse Meeting, Zwolle / BPW Club Amsterdam. Details at Wikje ALink, BPW Amsterdam, w.alink@inter.nl.net

10. – 13.05.07:  27th Hanse Convention, Lippstadt/Germany. Details at Barbara Claesberg-Wawerka, Vice-President BPW Club Hamm, b.claesberg-wawerka@dr-ambrosius.de

10. - 13.05.07:   5th International Young BPW Meeting, Seoul, South Korea

14. – 16.06.07: Global Summit of Women 2007 in Berlin – The Davos for Women. Details at www.globewomen.com

07. – 09.09.07:  European Symposium – Career Future Family, Berlin/Germany. BPW Germany, organized from Young BPW Germany

14. – 16.09.07:  10^th Anniversary of BPW Club Neva, St. Petersburg, Russia

18. – 19.10.07:  BPW International: Organizational Review and Reforms Hearing in Valencia, Spain

16. – 18.11.07:  2^nd BPW Danube Net Meeting in Pula

24. - 28.10.08:   26th BPW International Congress in Merida, Mexico

2009:                13th BPW Europe Congress in Munich, Germany

 

My travel schedule:

11.04.07            Workshop for Young BPW on ”Mentoring, Networking and You“, BPW Prague, Czech Republic

20.04.07            Panel Discussion on Female Neworks, BPW Lübeck, Germany

10. - 13.05.07:   5^th International Young BPW Meeting, Seoul, South Korea

07. – 09.09.07:  European Symposium – Career Future Family, Berlin/Germany. BPW Germany, organized from Young BPW Germany

24. - 28.10.08:  26th BPW International Congress in Merida, Mexico

2009:                13th BPW Europe Congress in Munich, Germany

 

 

Responsible:

Viktoria Balensiefen

Young BPW Europe Representative

mailto: viktoria.balensiefen@youngbpw-europe.org

www.youngbpw-europe.org

Skype: viktoria_bonn

 

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