District 1 Service Chair
We are looking for a Chair for the 2024-2026 biennium. Interested? Contact incoming Governor Donna Raycraft
International service projects have been a commitment for this organization from its inception. Zontians are passionate about providing life-changing opportunities to empower women and girls and improve their health, provide better economic opportunities, and prevent gender-based violence. Click here to open this PowerPoint and get a good overview of how projects are selected, how they are run, and the current focus of our efforts.
Zonta International’s signature project, the Global Programme to End Child Marriage will continue our partnership with UNICEF USA and UNFPA to boost its actions to accelerate the decline in child marriage globally and respond to the combined effects of the polycrisis and the pushback against gender equality for adolescent girls. The program’s priority is engaging adolescent girls as key agents of change in the following 12 countries, which account for almost half of the world’s child marriages: Bangladesh; Burkina Faso; Ethiopia; Ghana; India; Mozambique; Nepal; Niger; Sierra Leone; Uganda; Yemen and Zambia.Read more about the project | PDF
Climate Empower: Community Empowerment and Innovation for Gender-Transformative Climate Action
Laaha, the first-ever digital web-based platform created by UNICEF with women and girls from crisis-affected regions, has two primary objectives:-
- Increase knowledge on GBV and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) by providing quality and accurate information to girls and women about menstrual health and hygiene, healthy relationships, how to stay safe and know one’s rights, financial literacy, female anatomy and services for women and girls facing violence. In time, this digital space will replicate the sense of a safe social network that physical safe spaces provide.
- Reduce isolation by building safe spheres of support for adolescent girls. This is achieved through a peer-to-peer connection in a user forum that is carefully moderated to ensure a safe and respectful environment.
Read more about the project | PDF
Local service projects also focus on Zonta’s mission to benefit women or girls by helping to empower them to achieve equal rights and access to resources or aimed at preventing gender-based violence. An advocacy aspect is desirable, too. Ideally, Zonta members participate actively and personally in organizing and giving ‘hands-on’ service, not just providing fundraising for the project. The project should give visibility to Zonta and have wide media coverage, especially in terms of the beneficiaries.
Club Service Projects
ZC of Chelsea and No Shore MA We received good press from the Chelsea Record which spotlighted our November project. The club donated toiletries to the woman residing at a local shelter. We also donated money to help them out. The second picture is one of our members presenting food gift cards to our local school department. We give each school in our area Chelsea, Revere, Everett, Saugus and Winthrop food gift cards for the holiday season for families in need. ZC of South County RI In January a first service project was done for the Domestic Violence Resource Center of South County in South Kingstown. The members of the Club responded to a request for paper goods; paper towels, toilet paper, and tissues for its shelter, donated and delivered them. The donation consisted of 111 rolls of toilet tissue, 18 boxes of tissues, 65 rolls of paper towels, and three packages […]