International Outreach

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Click here for the GFWC International Outreach Community Service Program from the GFWC Club Manual.

Objectives: To Inform and educate the members of our clubs about world needs and the various programs available to us in which we can offer our support. 

Collaborations offer clubs the opportunity to research, plan and develop programs and projects based on member interests in the area of international outreach.  For instance, a club in the southwest provides medical supplies and monetary support to a clinic serving underprivileged families in Mexico.
                     
Partnerships A GFWC Partner operates on the national or international level and offers unique services such as speakers and project materials to help clubs become informed about the organization’s work   and thus encourage the club to participate. In some cases such as in Operation Smile, clubs provide goods such as children’s hospital gowns and smile bags. Clubs also respond through donations.  GFWC suggest clubs write ‘GFWC’ on the back of their checks so non-profits may give an account of members’ donations


THE GFWC PARTNERS………………….

CARE: I AM POWERFUL
CARE is working alongside women and girls to equip them with the proper resources to make a difference in their communities. Through CARE programs, steps are taken to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water, expand economic opportunities, and protect natural resources.  www.CARE.org


PLAN USA: GLOBAL WOMEN’S FUND
PLAN USA, founded in 1937, is an organization focused on aiding underprivileged children and developing countries. Through this organization, children are given access to education, health care, housing, and financial aid that they would not have otherwise.  Janet.Moretti@PlanUSA.org


HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL
Heifer International is a non-profit organization working to end world hunger by giving cows, goats, pigs, chickens, sheep, bees, and other food and income-producing livestock to impoverished families around the world. Recipients are trained in animal care and environmentally sound agricultural practices so they can lift themselves out of poverty and become self-reliant. Milk, eggs, wool, meat, draft power and other benefits of animals provide nutrition and money for education, housing, healthcare, and small business enterprises.    www.Heifer.org


OPERATION SMILE
At operation smile, medical volunteers provide safe, effective, and free cleft-lip and cleft-pallet repair surgery for children born all over the world. It is an international medical humanitarian organization dedicated to raising awareness of this life-threatening issue and providing lasting solutions that will allow children to be healed, regardless of financial standing, well into the future. Operation Smile’s free surgeries and medical missions are made possible by the thousands of volunteers and donors, throughout the world.  DMorrison@OperationSmile.org                                                          


U.S. FUND FOR  UNICEF
For over 4 decades GFWC has supported UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund in its efforts to ensure the world’s most vulnerable children access to health, education, equality and protection. UNICEF projects include Trick or Treat for UNICEF to help children survive and grow; US Fund for UNICEF’s TAP Project helps provide clean tap water for children around the world and Inspired Gifts enables donors to purchase actual life-saving items to be shipped to countries UNICEF serves.    www.UNICEFUSA.org                                   
             

UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATON OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The United Nations Association of the United States of America is a nonprofit membership organization
dedicated to building understanding of and support for the ideals and vital work of the United Nations among American people. Its educational and humanitarian campaigns—including teaching students in urban schools, clearing minefields and providing school-based support for children in African communities that have been hurt by HIV/AIDS—allow people to have a strong influence at a local level.    www.UNAUSA.org

INMED PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN
Around the world, INMED rescues children from immediate and irreversible harm caused by hunger, disease, abuse, poverty, and poor education, and prepares them to shape a brighter future for themselves and the nextgeneration. Working with community, business and government partners at all levels.   www.INMED.org




ADDITIONAL  RESOURCES
American Field Service/ www.AFS.org/USA
Doctors without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSf)- www.DoctorsWithoutBorders.org
Global Volunteers/ www.GlobalVolunteers.org 
Save the  Children/ www.SavetheChildren.org
People to People International/ www.PTPI.org
Clowns without Borders/ www.ClownsWithoutBorders.org