Women's International Zionist Organization

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Women's International Zionist Organization ( WIZO ) is an internationally active, charitable women's organization with associations in 50 countries, 800 institutions and around 250,000 members. It is the largest international women's organization in the world.

WIZO is recognized by the United Nations as a non-governmental organization and has consultative status in the Economic and Social Council ( ECOSOC ) of the United Nations and in UNICEF .

aims

WIZO takes on women, children and young people, new immigrants and older people in Israel in numerous projects, regardless of their nationality and religious affiliation.

The main concerns are the integration and wellbeing of mothers and children. To this end, it maintains advice centers for women, day-care centers and youth centers.

Care and housing options are offered for senior citizens. New immigrants receive extensive help with private and professional integration.

history

WIZO was founded in Great Britain in 1920 by Rebecca Sieff , Vera Weizmann (wife of Chaim Weizmann ), Edith Eder, Romana Goodman and Henrietta Irwell. The original goal was to be an umbrella organization for all Zionist women in the world. In 1949 the headquarters were moved from London to Israel.

In 1951, at the instigation of WIZO, the equality law for women was passed in the Israeli parliament.

In 1991 the law to combat domestic violence in the family came into force, in which WIZO played a major role.

WIZO Germany

Wizo has also existed in Germany since 1960. WIZO Germany oversees numerous projects in Israel. Most are dedicated to the education of children, such as day centers, kindergartens, schools, boarding schools and therapy centers. Young people are looked after in youth clubs. For women, the offer of help ranges from crisis management such as women's shelters, telephone hotlines, legal advice centers to political training centers. In these training centers women are to be encouraged to further their political education and to get involved at local or national level and / or to run for public office.

The most important project of WIZO Germany is the Theodor Heuss mothers convalescent home in Herzlia, which was founded in 1967.

Web links

Commons : Women's International Zionist Organization  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Help for projects in Israel In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger .de, September 21, 2001, accessed on August 2, 2018.
  2. ↑ WIZO Germany - WHO WE ARE - WHAT WE DO , accessed on May 10, 2017
  3. ↑ Help for projects in Israel In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger .de, September 21, 2001, accessed on August 2, 2018.
  4. ↑ Help for projects in Israel In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger .de, September 21, 2001, accessed on August 2, 2018.