It's World YWCA Day: Let's Celebrate!
Every year on April 24, YWCAs around the world observe World YWCA Day. It’s a day to observe our common membership and achievements in a movement that advances the human rights and leadership of women, young women and girls. It’s a time to recognise our movement’s efforts in creating positive change for all women around the world.
Let’s raise our voices and celebrate our achievements!
Our 2016 theme: Creating a more inclusive world
Our 2016 theme for World YWCA Day is ‘Creating a more inclusive world.’ We are rich in diversity, and our members and supporters include women from many different faiths, ages, backgrounds, beliefs and cultures.
At World Council 2015, we passed a resolution on non-discrimination, whereby we agreed that we would work to eliminate all discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion or belief, health, status, age, class, caste, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression, including practices, attitudes, policies and laws in their communities and countries. Let’s celebrate our solidarity with and support for ALL women, young women and girls, while continuing our work to create a more inclusive world.
We are all working toward the same common goal that “by 2035, 100 million young women and girls will transform power structures to create justice, gender equality and a world without violence and war; leading a sustainable YWCA movement, inclusive of all women.”
Have a look at “getting involved” section of this toolkit for suggestions on how you can use this theme in your local WCA and how you can participate in social media activity with the World YWCA to mark this special occasion.
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