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| WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION FEATURE
By Harriet Fowler_President
IWO
International Women’s Organisation
Dick & Rosie Stockley
“IWO is a voluntary membership association of international
women who come together for networking and to raise funds
to support vulnerable women and children in Uganda”
The Uganda chapter of the worldwide
International Women’s Organisation was
started in its present form in 1983 and has
been running ever since. IWO is a voluntary
membership association of international
women who come together for networking
and to raise funds to support vulnerable
women and children in Uganda. We are
registered under the umbrella organisation,
National Association of Women’s Organisa-
tions in Uganda (NAWOU). IWO general
meetings, usually with a speaker, and open
to all, are held on the first Thursday of the IWO Executive Committee
month. Venues and themes are announced
on our Facebook page
@International Women’s Organisation membership subscriptions, and we hold
Uganda regular fundraising events (next up is a Thai
New Year fundraising lunch in Mbuya on
Our March general meeting took place at Saturday 13 April). Later in the year there will
the premises of the women’s social be a Garden Bazaar and we are planning a
enterprise 4 Africa near the Bahai Temple. Health Fair. All our meetings and events are
Dorothy Adima, the Managing Director, told advertised on our facebook page and in
us her own personal story, and how 4 Africa our members whatsapp group.
enables vulnerable women in various parts
of Kampala to obtain marketable skills in The Projects work is really at the heart of IWO
crochet and tailoring, as well as business in Uganda and has been our main aim and
skills. We also organise coffee mornings, purpose. Over the years, many members
outings and clubs for different interests – have volunteered to be on the committee
currently garden club, book club, scrabble and have supported projects all over
club, and craft club and we issue a monthly Uganda, to uplift the lives of vulnerable
newsletter. women and children and to help
communities. We have a projects
Our Karibu outings explore interesting venues committee who run our project work. We
in and around Kampala. Recent outings receive applications from community
have been to the Papercraft Uganda paper groups, visit the projects for assessment,
making and glass blowing in Bwebajja, the work with those we select to determine how
wonderful gardens at the Lugazi golf club IWO support can best benefit them,
and the Uganda Industrial Research Institute purchase the agreed items (we do not give
in Kampala. We raise funds through our cash), deliver and then follow up. It is very
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