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Community
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Since 2005, our Community Project is Opportunity for Advancement. Information can be viewed at Opportunity for Advancement. Opportunity for Advancement works with women in disadvantaged life situations. While poverty is an issue for almost all of the women with whom they work, other factors create additional barriers to well-being and equal participation in society. These include being a sole-support parent, being an immigrant or woman of colour, being lesbian, being disabled or chronically ill, or having experienced violence.
In November, 2001 Zonta Club of Toronto was proud to make a contribution to the Zonta Accessible Playground project of the Zonta Club of Mississauga. To read the thank you letter from the Zonta Club of Mississauga for Toronto's donation, click here.
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1928 Teenage drop-in centre 1930s Radio broadcasts; vocation for women 1940s Mobile Clinic for Britain 1950s Women's College Hospital; Abortion research; assistance to Native Women 1960s Riding programme for the disabled; Furnishings for YWCA; Save the Children Fund 1970s Services to Native Canadian Women; Portuguese Canadian self-help programme; Equipment for the Canadian Hearing Society 1980s CNIB; Women's College Hospital; Dellcrest Children's Centre; SCOPE: School Community Outreach programme for the Elderly 1990/91 416 Drop-In Centre for indigent women 1992/93 St. Christopher's House literacy programme; Mortgage retirement for Interval House Annual Est. 1995 Michener Awards in Radiography (Mammography) and Cytotechnology 1994/98 1998 on Zonta Golf Tournaments in support of Breast Cancer (with 5 other District clubs)
1999 Equipment for CNIB Deaf-Blind in honour of Dorothy Thompson 1999/2005
2005 on
Dixon Hall Small Business Training Programme for Women
Opportunity for Advancement
1920s Vocation Education for young women 1930s National Survey on Age Discrimination Est. 1938 Amelia Earhart Scholarship Awards 1940s War Service Fund; Red Cross; Western Pacific Area Teachers scholarship 1950s Hungarian refugees direct aid 1960s Anne Frank village for West German refugees; UNRWA: Ramallah (Jordan) Scholarship programme; UN Commission on the Status of Women 1970s Mobile Medical units to rural Africa; Honduras hurricane fund; Pan African Training Centre; Columbia Urban Slum project 1980s Sri Lanka Well Water project; UN: Kenya women's training project 1990/93 UNIFEM projects for Women Est. 1994 ZISVAW: Zonta International Strategies to eliminate Violence Against Women and children 1994/95 Chilean Organization of Mapuche Women; Pesticide training in Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka 1996/98 UNICEF: Girls Education project in South Africa; various UNIFEM projects 1998 on Prevention of Female Genital Circumcision in Burkina Faso; Young Women in Public Affairs programme; the Rose Fund