The 28th of April WILPF celebrated its 94th Birthday!
- See what our different sections around the world did to celebrate this grand event! - 
All five of the Australian National Section branches have planned events to
mark WILPF's 94h birthday:
*.Our branch in the Australian Capital Territory is also planning a celebration on Tuesday April 28th. Members
are invited to bring along a friend and celebrate over a pot-luck dinner from 6.30pm. This event will be held at the
home of one of the branch's members.
* On the morning of Tuesday 28th April, our Tasmanian branch will have a morning tea to celebrate the 94th
anniversary. The venue is yet to be decided. They will also establish a music scholarship in memory of WILPF
member and one-time Secretary of the Australian Section, Lesley Alcorso who died recently. The scholarship
will be a music award for a first-year female student at the Tasmanian University's Conservatorium of Music.
* Our branch in the Australian Capital Territory is also planning a celebration on Tuesday April 28th. Members
are invited to bring along a friend and celebrate over a pot-luck dinner from 6.30pm. This event will be held at
the home of one of the branch's members.
* Our New South Wales branch will hold a "birthday" meeting on Saturday 9th May. This will be a triple
celebration marking WILPF's 94th birthday, the 100th birthday of Margaret Holmes, one of the branch's founding
members, as well as reporting on the Section's work around developing a national action plan for UNSCR1325.
* Also on 9th May, our South Australian branch will have a 94th birthday cake and celebration as part of the singing
protest workshop at the Quaker Meeting House, 40A Pennington Terrace, North Adelaide. Time: 1.30pm to 4.30pm
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WILPF is going to have its Nordic Sections Meeting 25-26 April. Follow the link for more information please.
WILPF Nordic Sections Meeting
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On the April 28th, at 12 am, a press conference is going to be held in front of the monument reminding the
militaries who died during the First and the Second war. WILPF will be there and light a candle and deposit a flower.
This action means, how much cost the life of a man, of a woman, of a child killed during the wars. How much costs
the life of the humanity today. We will address our WILPF statement to the president of the government of Polynesia
and also an appeal especially for our country.
Please click here to read the statement from the French Polynesian section.
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Don't miss WILPF's Fundraising this Thursday the 23 April at the Clubhouse. Please click on the link below
for more information and registration.
Spring Fling -Speed Dating- Fundraise
23 April at the Clubhouse, Geneva.
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The UK section:
Our WILPF section in the UK organised the following things for the celebration:
WILPF Birthday Bash in London!
Friday 24th April in London.
Despite the actual birthday falling on 28th April, YWILPF UK organised a party in celebration for WILPF’s 94th birthday. A local pub close to the main UK office was decorated by violet WILPF balloons, banners and campaign materials to kick start the celebration with a certain theme in mind. LONDONWILPF had organised a magnificent cake and guests (as hoped) wore the suffragette colours of violent, green and white. YWILPF collaborated the party organising with LONDONWILPF, whereby we had invited former WILPF President Diane Brace to say a few words before the cake-cutting.
WILPF women made contributions on Jane Addams, Emily Balch, Rosika Schwimmer, Crystal Macmillan, Edith Ballentine, and our very own Richenda Barbour, who has been with WILPF UK for over 20 years. The party was a great success with a mixed crowd. We were joined by a total of 25 people, including male friends and guests from the Democratic Republic of Congo (as seen in the photo). We had a total of four new WILPFers, with new members attending the event.
Pictures above: New member Yeukai Taruvinga won the Campaigner of the Year Award (left), Richenda Barbour, one of WILPF UK's longest standing members - was present (right) and a guest from the Democratic Republic of Congo addressed the audience (below).
* On the 28th of April, a delegation of six women representing UK WILPF and Diaspora African women will
present a Declaration by African women (UK WILPF has been collecting signatures), voicing their concerns
to the international community to the PM at 10AM
Downing Street at 4.00 pm.
* A member of the Scottish Parliament is hosting a meeting in the Scottish Parliament: "Voices of Congolese Women"
at which WILPF Congolese Diaspora women will be speaking to parliamentarians in the evening on 28th
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WILPFs Reaching Critical Will project is turning 10 years old! Join us in the celebrations!
Reaching Critical Will 10th Anniversary Reception
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