The Zonta International Fund

Zonta International is asking for 100% participation to donations to the ZI fund and encourages Zontians from all over the US/world to participate as well. Our participation delivers a strong and united message supporting Zonta's hard working leaders all over the world that we not only belong to our local civic club, but that we truly care.

It doesn't really matter how much you give to deliver this powerful/understated message.

Please bring a check for at least $5 to our meeting this Wednesday, March 23 or you can send to me Patti Wilson 2622 Bertella Rd Cameron Park CA 95682

January—Honoring Amelia Earhart

On July 2, 1928, as Amelia Earhart, world- famed aviator and the first
woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean as a passenger, approached the
shores of the United States on her triumphant return home, she was
handed this radiogram: Boston Zonta Club is proud to welcome you as a
member. Signed Alice Bradley, President
A few weeks later, she was inducted into Zonta International and served
as an active member first in the Boston club and later in the New York
club until her tragic and untimely disappearance in 1937. An outstanding
woman with a charismatic personality, Earhart was Universally admired
around the world for her "wildly daring" but "never reckless" courage. Epitomizing
the ideals of Zonta International by actively promoting women to
take on non-traditional fields, she wrote articles about aviation for Cosmopolitan
magazine as an associate editor, served as a career counselor to
women university students, and lectured at Zonta club meetings, urging
members to interest themselves in aviation. In these years, Zonta was
the only non-aviation organization to which Earhart belonged, although
she was besieged to join and to sponsor numerous organizations
at the time.

Source: ZI Website

Take Flight with "Amelia Earhart Month" Raffle

1st Annual Take Flight Raffle

To Advance the Status of Women Worldwide

Tickets on sale Jan 1– Feb 22, Drawing will be held Feb 23, 2011

(you do not have to be present to win)

Tickets $20.00 each

WIN a 2 hour Sacramento/Sierra area or/or Bay tour (San Francisco

area) flight for 2 and 1 hour in a state-of-the-art hydraulic flight simulator.

We will coordinate with the winner to schedule the flight during

the spring to accommodate

the weather. The

flight simulator is located

on Mather Field.

The Zonta Club of Greater Sacramento Fall Activities

On November 13 members of ZCGS sponsored a Saturday Girl’s Night In at the Sacramento
Area Emergency Housing Center. We provided pizza and drinks plus all of the materials
needed for a fun and inter-active evening of collaging. Our suggested theme was “Things
that make you Happy. Most of the women participated
and all of us had a wonderful time.
If you are interested in donating to the SAEHC here
are some of the items needed by the shelter:
sheets, blankets, towels, toothpaste, shampoo/
conditioner (the ones from hotels are perfect), laundry
soap, feminine hygiene products, women’s underwear,
socks and bras (new), paper goods, diapers and children’s puzzles and games.
Monday, December 13 we will be at the St. John’s Women and Children’s Shelter. Since this
is our first visit we opted for preparing and serving dinner to the estimated 120 women and
children. St. John’s Mission: to support homeless women and children to advance to a point of crisis to a position of self-sufficiency.

Join the Zonta Club of Greater Sacramento and support the 16 Days Against Gender Violence

What is the 16 Days Campaign?

The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is an
international campaign originating from the first Women's Global
Leadership Institute sponsored by the Center for Women's Global
Leadership in 1991. Participants chose the dates, November 25,
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women,
and December 10, International Human Rights Day, in order to
symbolically link violence against women and human rights and to
emphasize that such violence is a violation of human rights.

The 16 Days Campaign is a global initiative that seeks to: raise awareness at the
local, national and international levels regarding violence against women, strengthen
local work, link local and global activism, provide a forum for dialogue and strategy-sharing, pressure
governments to implement the commitments they have made in national and international legal
instruments, and demonstrate the solidarity of activists around the world.
The 16 Days Campaign takes shape from local, national, regional and international initiatives around the
world; it is not a single event in any one location. As the international coordinator of the campaign, CWGL
provides campaign materials, serves as a hub for information and networking on violence against women,
and compiles the International Calendar of Campaign Activities each year.
How did the campaign get its name, and why does it last for 16 days?
The annual “16 Days Campaign” spans the 16-day period between International Day for the Elimination of
Violence Against Women (November 25) and International Human Rights Day (December 10) to make the
symbolic statement that violence against women is a violation of human rights.
This 16-day period also highlights other significant dates including: Nov 29, International Women
Human Rights Defenders Day, Dec 1 World AIDS Day, Dec 2 International Day for the Abolition of
Slavery/Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and Dec 6, which marks the Anniversary of the
Montreal Massacre, Dec 10 International Human Rights Day
For more information visit: http://16dayscwgl.rutgers.edu/about-16-days

November President’s Message

Dear Zontians,

Below is our upcoming agenda for the next four months:

Nov 13 Saturday 5:30– 8:00pm, Girl’s Night In with Sacramento Area Emergency Housing Center -Dinner and Collaging

Nov 20 Saturday 5:00 - whenever, Night of Pampering, just the way to relax before the holidays.

Dec 13, Monday 4:00– 6:30pm, St. Johns Women Shelter—preparing and

serving dinner to approximately 120 women and children

January is Amelia Earhart Month—Tour of air traffic control facility, Northern

California TRACON and kick off of the 1st Annual ZCGR raffling a 1-2 hour flight for

two in the Sacramento-Bay area.

                                     Jan 26 6:30pm, Wednesday Dinner Mtg, Speaker from Courage to Be You

                                     In Sisterhood,

                                     Patti Wilson

Update on 2010-2012 Zonta International Service Projects

After four months in the new biennium, we would like to update you on the status of our international projects and respond to some inquiries about promotional material. 

As you remember at the 2010 ZI convention, we agreed to the proposed International Service and ZISVAW projects for the 2010–2012 Biennium. As a result, Zonta International Foundation (ZIF) entered into negotiations with the UN agencies which will manage the projects. 

ZIF has been negotiating with the three UN agencies concerned and has reached agreement with UNICEF for the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Gender-Based Violence in Rwanda project. 

The remaining four projects: 

• Elimination of Obstetric Fistula and the Reduction of Maternal and Newborn Mortality and Morbidity in Liberia UNFPA 
• Safe Cities for Women in Guatemala City, Guatemala and San Salvador, El Salvador UNIFEM part of UN Women 
• Comprehensive Strategy to End Burns Violence against Women in Cambodia, Nepal and Uganda UN Trust Fund/UNIFEM part of UN Women 
• Security and Empowerment for Women and their Families: Ensuring a Gender-Responsive Humanitarian and Early Recovery Response in Haiti UNIFEM part of UN Women 

are to be delivered by UNIFEM part of UN Women and UNFPA. UNIFEM is in the midst of a merger into the new UN Women organization which has delayed negotiations. We are still in negotiations with UNFPA for the obstetric fistula project. 

ZIF, exercising its fiduciary responsibility, will not make payments until the contracts have been signed. The ZIF Board recognizes the importance of resolving this issue quickly. 

We are committed to keeping you updated on the progress. In the meantime, a PowerPoint presentation on the Rwanda project will be posted on the website by 5 November so you may download these slides and notes and use them for your communications. 

Kind regards, 

Zonta International Board 
 

Help women in war torn countries: sign the petition "say no to violence against women"

September 29, 2010

Dear Zontians,

Ten years ago, on October 31, 2000, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1325, the first formal document from the Security Council that requires parties in conflict to respect women’s rights and to support their participation in peace processes. Many civil society organizations lobbied for the passage of the resolution. It calls for prosecuting crimes against women, extra protection for women and girls in conflict areas and involving more women in peace talks and reconstruction planning. Since then two more resolutions, 1820 and 1888, have also been adopted unanimously. Both of these resolutions emphasize and build on Resolution 1325.

Zonta International has supported these resolutions and now, ten years later, we find that women are still pawns of conflict. Sexual violence against women is in the headlines every day. According to UNIFEM, “In contemporary conflicts, as much as 90 percent of casualties are among civilians, most of whom are women and children. Women face devastating forms of sexual violence, which are sometimes deployed systematically to achieve military or political objectives.” We can help to stop this brutality by joining with UNIFEM in Women Count for Peace. This campaign is part of SAY NO UNITE, End Violence against Women.

All Zontians can add their names to a petition which asks governments to support 3 steps to implement Resolution 1325. The petition asks the individual governments to: Prosecute those who command and/or commit sexual violence and exclude them from armies and police forces after conflict; Ensure that women participate in peace negotiations and all post-conflict decision-making institutions; and Increase the number of women in troops, police forces and civilians within international peacekeeping efforts.

You can add your name by going to www.saynotoviolence.org/make-women-count-for-peace where you can sign the petition online or print out petition forms that may be mailed. The women in war torn countries need our help.

Yours in Zonta,

 

Mary Ann Tarantula

Zonta International United Nations Committee, Chairman

Dear Zontians,

So our newest member has been inducted along with your executive officers. In the past year we spent a

lot of time focused on recruiting for our chartering. Recruitment is still on our list of goals but we are also

focused on where the club is going and what our goals will be for the next year. I am very excited about

this next year. I want to see the club grow and continue to diversify our membership, but also continue to

become more organized and focused on the mission of Zonta in our community. One way to accomplish

this is to create a ZCGS Endowment Fund. This allows donations to the Fund to become tax deductable

and allows or club to grow. Expect to hear more.

Human Trafficking is the advocacy issue we want to be in the forefront for the Zonta 2010-2011

year. It can be a very disturbing issue since it is something many of us believe to be something that hap-

pens to someone else and never to us in the California state capitol of Sacramento. It’s extremely impor-

tant for everyone to be aware of the risks and impact, and education is the best defense for you and your

family.

Having said Human Trafficking is not the only issue our club has in it’s sights, we will continue to join with

other local organizations advancing the status of women. The “Girls Night In” at the SAEHC

(Sacramento Area Emergency Housing Center for Women) is a wonderful opportunity to provide a safe

and entertaining environment for the women at the center. We are considering a movie night with popcorn

or maybe collage night with pizza. At the August meeting we will be asking for you to bring toilet paper to

be donated to the SAEHC. Do you know how much toilet paper it takes to sustain four people for one

month?

Advancing the status of women includes teaching women how to defend themselves. When I say

women I mean current women and future women, this is a class for all ages. Last year we hosted a self

defense class with Lisa Dienes from Robinson’s Tae Kwon Do. Lisa is a very dynamic and passionate per-

son and holds a 4th degree black belt. This was an amazing one hour class that gave the basics of self

defense for women, no matter their size, to be able to defend themselves against

someone three times their size. Expect to see this in conjunction with Denim Day.

In Sisterhood,

Patti Wilson

ZCGS President