CFUW-Ottawa Club Projects
Dragon Boat Races
CFUW-Ottawa has formed a team to compete for the first time this year in the Dragon Boat Festival June 20th-23rd. This project contributes to the improvement of women and girls in the community through the Dragon Boat Festival's fundraising for local charities. Each year charities are chosen which support the Ottawa community and most charities chosen will improve the socio-cultural and economic lives of women and girls in the Ottawa area.
Click here for a listing of the charities chosen for 2013.
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HIPPY OTTAWA
CFUW-Ottawa made it a strategic priority to become involved in a project that would promote lifelong learning and improve the lives of women and children in our community. The project selected was
HIPPY Ottawa.
The HIPPY program focuses on helping low-income parents in Ottawa, usually immigrants, prepare their three- to five-year-olds for school. Numerous benefits include better preparing children for entry to the Ontario school system; empowering parents to prepare their children for school; breaking down barriers to the integration of recent immigrants to Canadian life; and mentoring those parents and program workers interested in pursuing learning or career plans.
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UNIVERSITY WOMEN HELPING AFGHAN WOMEN
CFUW-Ottawa hosted the 2010 National AGM for CFUW. The focus of the event was the lack of human rights for Afghan women communicated so movingly by Dr. Sima Samar (physician and Human Rights advocate). After the event many members of the Club expressed an interest in continuing to study the issue and to look for ways to help the plight of Afghan Women. The University Women Helping Afghan Women group was formed and has been very active since... (more)
