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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Women for Women International<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Women for Women International\u2019 is the second charity chosen for the new year of SI Crieff and at the recent club meeting, two members outlined the background and aims of this organisation.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Women for Women\u2019 was founded by Zainab Salbi, who was born in Iraq in 1969 but by 1993 was living in Washington DC.\u00a0\u00a0 Zainab\u2019s parents were middle class, her mother was a teacher and her father a pilot. They were non-political but knew Saddam Hussein socially as her father had become Saddam\u2019s private pilot and Zainab even called him \u2018uncle\u2019.\u00a0 Then war with Iran broke out and life changed completely.\u00a0 Her family were fully aware of just how brutal Saddam\u2019s regime was and In 1989 Zainab was sent to Chicago and an arranged marriage.\u00a0 Only years later did Zainab understand that her mother had sent her to America\u00a0 for her own safety, but it proved to be an abusive relationship and after moving to Washington she paid her way through college and later met her present husband.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Zainab saw a picture in a magazine of five totally traumatised young women sitting on a bed, survivors of rape in Bosnia, she knew that she had to do something. So Women for Women was founded and since then nearly 500,000 women survivors of war and conflict in eight countries\u00a0 – Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Congo, Kosovo,\u00a0 Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan – have been helped.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Whenever there is an outbreak of war or violence, women are uprooted from their homes, witness the death of loved ones and endure the trauma of rape.\u00a0\u00a0 Once the fighting is over, theirs is the task of rebuilding families and communities, and it is for these roles that Women for Women provide practical support.\u00a0The charity runs 12-month training courses which equips the women to earn money, regain confidence and participate in community decisions.\u00a0\u00a0 A tight support group of 24 women is formed in this way which breaks the isolation caused by war.\u00a0 They learn marketable skills such as tailoring, bread-making and poultry-keeping and receive business\u00a0 training to turn their new skills into a stable income with which to support their family.\u00a0Knowledge about health, good hygiene and nutrition is also an important part of the course, as is informing the women of their rights re voting, access to land, divorce, custody of children and domestic abuse issues.\u00a0 The cost to sponsor one of the women for such a course costs the tiny sum of only \u00a322 per month. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Zainab Salbi also feels very strongly that, to achieve lasting peace after wars and conflicts, it is essential that women be involved at the negotiating tables \u2013 not just one token woman but 50% should be women.\u00a0 A shocking statistic to back this up is that one year of the world\u2019s military budget equals 700 years of the UN\u2019s military budget and 2,928 years of the UN\u2019s budget for women.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For further information on how to help a woman rebuild her life this way visit womenforwomen.org.uk\/sponsor .\u00a0 For further information on SI Crieff contact Janice Wilson on 0746 8889011<\/strong><\/p>\n

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