Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Summer 1968, p. 29

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A. CWW DO YOU KNOW? What it is? It is the only world organisation of country women. It represents 6 million country women and homemakers. Its members come from some 56 different countries in five continents and belong to 200 different Societies. What it does for you? It works for improved rural conditions and bet- ter homes. It links you with country women all over the world. It finds Letter Friends for you. It helps you to arrange “Exchange Pro- grammes" with groups in other countries. It gives you introductions to other country women when you go abroad, and provides you with the opportunity of offering hospitality to country women when they visit your country. It brings you news of other country women in the bi-monthly magazine “The Countrywo- man." It keeps the country woman‘s point of view be- fore the United Nations on such matters as food and nutrition, education and culture, child care, economic and social problems. It provides you with first-hand information about the United Nations. It provides scholarships through the ACWW Lady Aberdeen Scholarship project. What you can do for it? Help ACWW build friendship between country women all over the world by supporting its efâ€" torts to promote international understanding tsce Pennies for Friendship). Let it know your views on United Nations matters. Hold an Annual International Day .md provide voluntary financial support. When and where it meets? JtCWW holds Conferences every three years, in decide the basic policies of the organisation. Conferences haVe been held in Vienna in |930, Stockholm 1933. Washington 1936, London 1939. Amsterdam 1947. Copenhagen E950, Toronto 1953, Colombo 1957, Edinâ€" '1;2gh 1959, Melbourne 1962, and Dublin ‘ 5. At the Conferences every Constituent Member Society, no matter how small can have its say, hut no country can exercise more than 20% of the voting power. SUMMER I968 A Japanese skit was presented by Alice Belyect and Karen Streich of Sault Ste. Marie at an Achievement Day for The World of Food in Canada unil, Fholo courtesy The Soult Ste. Marie Slur. Who can become a Member? A National. State or Provincial Society may become an Associate Member (paying £3 a year) and later a Constituent Member (paying a mtmmum of £5 a year). Other groups may become Corresponding Members (paying £1 a year). An individual may become tt Contributing Member (paying {I at year). or it Life Member (paying one sum of £20). Constituent. Associate or Corresponding Societies in: Australia Belgium Brazil Brunei Cameroons Canada Ceylon Colombia Denmark Egypt England and Wales Finland F rance Germany Greece Greenland Grenada Guyana India Indonesia Ireland Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kenya Kuwait Laos Lesotho Lebanon Mttlttwi Multtytt Nepttl The Netherlands New Zculund Nigeria Northern Ireland Norway Pakistan Panama Pztputt New Guinea Philippines Rhodesia Snrttwuk Scotland Sierra Leone Sikkim South Africa. Republic of South West Africa St, Kilts {West Indies) Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Thailand Trinidad and Tohugo Uganda United States Zambia The Dew Line station at Tukoyaktuk. 29

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