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Zonta International is a worldwide service organization dedicated to improving the legal, political, economic, educational
and professional status of women. More than 36,000 Zontians in over 1,100 clubs in 61 countries use their collective strength
to help individual women throughout the world realize their potential.
Zonta International actively works to promote
the status of women through its long-standing relationship with the United Nations and some of its agencies. It holds consultative
status with the U.N., and maintains 10 U.N. representatives, making Zonta a powerful force in the development of international
policy.
For the biennium 2010-2012, the following service projects
were adopted:
INTERNATIONAL SERVICE PROGRAMS:
Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Gender-Based
Violence in Rwanda (In cooperation with UNICEF)
Elimination of Obstetric Fistula and the Reduction
of Maternal and Newborn Mortality and Morbidity in Liberia (in cooperation with UNFPA)
Safe Cities
for Women Project in Guatemala, City and in San Salvador, El Salvador (in cooperation with UNIFEM)
ZONTA
INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIES TO PREVENT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN (ZISVAW)
In cooperation with the UNIFEM
Trust Fund to End Violence against Women:
1. Towards a Comprehensive Strategy to End Burns Violence
against Women in Cambodia, Nepal and Uganda
2.
Security and Empowerment for Women and their Families: Ensuring a Gender-Responsive
Humanitarian and Early Recovery Response in Haiti
3. Actively participate in UNIFEM'S Say No
to Violence Campaign
THE LOUISVILLE ZONTA CLUB
The Zonta club of Louisville was chartered on May 14, 1960. Like all local Zonta clubs, its objectives are: *To
stimulate the desire of each member to be of service; *To promote good fellowship as an opportunity for
service; *To quicken the interest of each member in the welfare of the local
community, and to cooperate with others in its civic, social, commercial, and industrial development. For
over 50 years, Zonta Club of Louisville has served our community in advancing the status of our women through projects and
grants. Our dues and contributions support Zonta International's Foundation and Service Projects.
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