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OUR PAST PRESIDENTS

TOUCH OF CLASS AUCTION CHAIRS

1986…Sylvia Lozier - Joanne Provost
1987…Mary Groves - Jeannine Talwar
1988…Mary Groves
1989…Mary Groves - Jonnie Wheeler Maurer
1990…Susan Ford - Nancy Freidt - Diann Roe
1991…Virginia Christensen
1992…Daurice Pratt
1993…Daurice Pratt
1994…Sylvia Lozier - Joanne Provost
1995…Mary Groves - Daurice Pratt - Diann Roe
1996…Carol Dickson - Jeanie Martin - Diann Roe-Gilbertson
1997…Beth Forshay - Dana Zozaya
1998…Heather Holt - Francie Michelon - Dana Zozaya
1999…Heather Holt - Margaret Reid - Connie Stock
2000…Karen Doyle - Carol Hoglen - Cheree Townsend
2001…Carol Dickson - Carol Hoglen - Lisa Woodruff
2002…Toni Markley - Cindy Moir - Margaret Reid
2003…Lisa Woodruff
2004…Mae Beth Williams - Lois Vaughn-Keller

EXTREME DREAM RAFFLE CHAIRS
2005… Francie Michelon
2006… Jeanie Martin
2007… Denise McAleenan
2008…Carol Dickson, Patty Downing, Staci Hunt, Francie Michelon
2009…Rebekah Hicks - Colene Martin
2010…Rebekah Hicks - Susan Tokarz-Krauss
2011…Tracy Cauble - Susan Tokarz-Krauss

Achievements Through 62 Years
* Computers for Josephine Community Library, Inc.
* $10,000 to Illinois Valley Safehouse Alliance capital project - building purchase
* Bright Futures Foundation - Scholarship for student in Nepal
* Pre-school for AIDS affected children in Botswana
* Coalition for Kids - Parenting With Love and Logic Program
* Asante Three Rivers Hospital - Birthing Beds
* From the Heart Prescription Program
* Oregon Parent Center in Wolf Creek Summer School Program
* Rogue Community College Moving On Program - AmeriCorp Member who provided advocacy and resources to Stop Violence Against Women and Children* Boys & Girls Club of the Rogue Valley
* Grants Pass YMCA - purchase a machine for cardio respiratory endurance conditioning serving those who cannot use the pool.
* SPARC Enterprises - Crew cab pickup for the landscape division
* Women’s Crisis Support Team - materials for prevention program; part of the AmeriCorp program
* Lovejoy Hospice - Children’s “Good Grief” Program; furnish rooms in new building
* Food Share - digital scale
* Children’s & Adolescent’s Divorce Eduation program - Workbooks in four age groups
* Women’s Crisis Support Team - Child Advocacy Program - purchase Krauss Craft Play structure
* ADAPT Alcohol & Drug Abuse Prevention & Treatment - Women specific programs in Grants Pass and Illinois Valley
* Coaliton for Kids - Childcare Scholarships for low income working women
* Josephine County Library Foundation, Inc. - Site development and beginning construction for new branch library in Wolf Creek
* LINKS: RCC Counseling and student programs - scholarships for low income women
* Lovejoy Hospice - materials for adult and childrne’s grief support programs
* SPARC Enterprises, Inc. - funding for new Employment Training & Recycling Center
* Women’s Crisis Support Team - New Shelter
* Retired Senior Volunteer Program - Ramp Project
* Southern Oregon Head Start - Family classes

 ONGOING LOCAL PROJECTS
o      The Evangeline Project – places crisis line phone and web contact information on Grocery Register Tapes in four northwestern states
o      Zonta Club of Grants Pass Oregon Foundation – building sustainability
o      Phyllis George Memorial Scholarship at Rogue 

Community College – given to a woman re-entering the business world.
o      Young Women in Public Affairs – Cash award to selected female leader
o      Jane M. Klausman Women in Business Scholarship – Competitive award to Women studying Business entering their Junior or Senior year
o      Amelia Earhart Fellowship Fund – Monetary awards to women for graduate study in aerospace related sciences and engineering
o      Boys & Girls Club of Grants Pass – Sponsors of a girls volleyball team
o      Literacy - book donations
o      Breast Pillows for cancer patients
o      Funding for Safe Grad Night for up to four community high schools
o      Relay For Life Team beginning 2008
o    Sixteen Days of Activism Against Gender Violence - AIDS awareness November 25 through December 10; County Commissioners proclamation against gender violence.   

Zonta International Service Projects
o      UN Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence Against Women for a safer and more secure environment for women in Bhutan
o      UN Foundation (UNF) for the prevention of gender-based violence among Sudanese refugees in  Chad
o      UNF to prevent and manage the consequences of sexual and gender-based violence in post-tsunami Sri Lanka
o      Afghanistan – education for more than 2,500 women and girls in eight community-based educational learning centers; training for teachers and administrators; vital medical care services for women and children
o      Niger – Established 161 credit and savings groups to help meet the socio-economic needs of 3,835 women affected by HIV/AIDS
o      Bolivia – Vocational training for 428 girls and women
o      Mir Bacha Kot Afghanistan - Women’s Learning Center and Health clinic - maternal and neonatal Tetanus vaccinations in Kabul
o      Burkina Faso - Prevention of Female Genital Circumcision    
o     Nepal - Preventing Neionatal Tetanus through Education, Immunization and birthing kits      

 ZISVAW – Zonta International Strategies to prevent Violence Against Women
o      Bosnia-Herzegovinia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, southeast and east Asia – Prevent trafficking of women and girls (STAR and RAMP)
o      Sierre Lione – combating violence against women and girls
o      Niger – Implementation of laws, policies and action plans to reduce violence against women
o      Niger – Mata Masu Dubara – MicroCredit and Health Education for HIV/AIDS affected women
o      Reinventing India – Preventing Violence Against Women and Girls
o      Thailand – established a woman owned dairy enterprise

 Zonta District 8 Service Project
o      Lester B. Pearson  World Peace  College - Victoria, B.C. scholarships and student fellowship 

Civic Participation
o      Boatnik – Entry security at VIP tent
o      Wild Life Images – Sound systems for local education programs presented at schools and nursing homes
o      Community Concert Series – Sponsor of students to attend series
o      Grants Pass High School Library Fund
o      Fairview  Transitional Health Center - Tray favors for resident meal trays
o       Reinhardt All Sports Park - Plants and flowers   
o      Grants Pass Rotary Club Foundation - Morrison Centennial Park  
o       “Paint Your Heart Out”
o      Kid’s Care Fair  

 Why Focus on Women
The single most effect way to improve the lives of families and populations is to improve the status of women
o      Violence against women is pandemic
o      Sexual Assault is a ubiquitous tool of war
o      Progress for women is progress for all
o      AIDS is both a cause and a consequence of poverty
o      The poor stay poor not because they are lazy, but because they have no access to capital – Milton Friedman, 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics
o      70 percent of the 1.3 billion poor are women
o      Of the 513 Nobel Prizes for physics, chemistry and physiology or medicine awarded since 1901, only 12 have gone to women, two of them to Marie Curie.
o      64% of women are illiterate, virtually unchanged from 63% in 1990
o      Two-thirds of illiterate adults are women and 2/3 of children not in school are girls
o      Positive effects of increased literacy rates: higher school-enrollment, lower fertility and lower infant and maternal mortality rates in childbirth, reduction in gender discrimination
o      Equal rights for girls and the equal participation of women in the social, cultural, economic and political life of societies are essential for successful and sustainable development
o      Today, 7,000 women and girls will contract HIV   

  Violence against women and girls is an endemic and must end
o      Almost 100 million girls “disappear” each year, killed in the womb or as babies because of their gender
o      Two million girls a year still suffer genital mutilation
o      Half a million girls die during pregnancy – the leading killer among 15 to 19 year-olds every 12 months.
o      An estimated 7.3 million girls are living with HIV/AIDS compared with 4.5 million young men. 1.6 times more likely than men – 60% of 15-24 year olds living with HIV
o      Almost a million girls fall victim to child traffickers each year compared with a quarter that number of boys
o      One in three women worldwide will be beaten, raped, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime.
o      One in four pregnant women is physically or sexually abused, usually by her partner
o      Too often, Intimate Partner Femicide is reported as simple murder
o      Violence against women is a major cause of death and disability for women of reproductive age. One in five women becomes a victim of rape or attempted rape in her lifetime
o      Today 980 million people live on less than one dollar a day – a majority of the world’s absolute poor are female
o      In 2000 maternal deaths totaled 529,000 – one per minute and for each of them 20 more experience serious complications.
o      In no country in the world are women safe from domestic and intimate violence. Half of the women who die from homicides are killed by their current or former husbands or partners. 

UNIFEM Goals and Strategies
Ending violence against women requires multiple strategies working across sectors and at different levels.
Laws must be accompanied by resource allocations, institutional regulations and guidelines and systematic training for officials who will monitor and enforce them – include police and judiciary, health and social service providers.
Ending violence against women also requires changing public perceptions and breaking through barriers of culture and tradition to find non-violent ways to resolve conflicts in personal and public life.

FOCUS OF ADVOCACY
o      Revise legal and policy frameworks – legislative action
o      Promote budget recognition that the needs of men and women diverge and advocate for funding that promotes equality
o      Strengthen institutional accountability
o      Change public awareness through advocacy campaigns – education, ex. forums
o      Work with community leaders and partner with men and youth – Project 5-0 partners
o      Strengthen social support services – Shelters, DOJ, Senior Services
o      Support research and data to empower women advocates – ex. Media analysis of treatment of women