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a vital part of the nation's life commanding respect and admiration. They keep the F.W.I.C. alive and become a line of communication through which Members speak.
CHAPTER FIVE
THE ASSOCIATED COUNTRY OF THE WORLD
WOMEN
The AC.W.W.-the First International Organization of rural women was organized in 1933 with Mrs. Alfred Watt as President and Lady Aberdeen named Honorary President. Mrs. Alfred Watt, a Canadian from British Columbia took the Idea of Women's Institutes to England during the 1914-18 war. There she saw the great need for such an organization and she organized the First W.I. in Wales in 1915. From there the movement spread rapidly through England and Scotland. By 1933, Mrs. Watt had succeeded in getting representatives from these countries to meet in Stockholm, Sweden, and it was there that the Associated Country Women of the World came into being-one of Canada's greatest gifts to the world-the Women's Institutes. Today it joins together six million rural women in one hundred and seventy-five organizations in forty-six countries. In 1953, when Mrs. Raymond Sayre, President of the AC.W.W. was speaking at the A.W.I. Convention, she said, "If you would understand the AC.W.W. and view it in its true proportions, you must see it not in terms of the international and national associations, but in terms of the individual member. You must see it as a vast global network of small, voluntary groups of country women. In literally thousands of small communities around the world, these local associations are to be found. They are, indeed, the Associated Country Women of the World itself. We have made a name for ourselves. "But there are vast rural areas in the world today where the changes so vitally affecting the lives of countrywomen to lighten their labors and improve their status, have not taken place, so we cannot be complacent about it. If changes in the traditions and habits are to be made, women must first see their value. Moreover, women in many of these lands are farmers and if the new. methods of agriculture are to be introduced, the women must first know their importance. We have a stake in these people, who must be brought into the 20th Century. They too, are part of the human race. There are no more frontiers, no more countries to which man can run. At last we must turn and learn to live with each other. That is what we are trying to do in the AC.W.W." The objects of the Associated Country Women of the World are: 1. Promote and maintain friendly and helpful relations between country women's organizations of all nations, and to give any possible help to their development in the economic, social and cultural sphere. 2. To further the common interests of these organizations. 3. Encourage formation of new organizations, especially in countries where this need has not been met. 19
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| Transcript | a vital part of the nation's life commanding respect and admiration. They keep the F.W.I.C. alive and become a line of communication through which Members speak. CHAPTER FIVE THE ASSOCIATED COUNTRY OF THE WORLD WOMEN The AC.W.W.-the First International Organization of rural women was organized in 1933 with Mrs. Alfred Watt as President and Lady Aberdeen named Honorary President. Mrs. Alfred Watt, a Canadian from British Columbia took the Idea of Women's Institutes to England during the 1914-18 war. There she saw the great need for such an organization and she organized the First W.I. in Wales in 1915. From there the movement spread rapidly through England and Scotland. By 1933, Mrs. Watt had succeeded in getting representatives from these countries to meet in Stockholm, Sweden, and it was there that the Associated Country Women of the World came into being-one of Canada's greatest gifts to the world-the Women's Institutes. Today it joins together six million rural women in one hundred and seventy-five organizations in forty-six countries. In 1953, when Mrs. Raymond Sayre, President of the AC.W.W. was speaking at the A.W.I. Convention, she said, "If you would understand the AC.W.W. and view it in its true proportions, you must see it not in terms of the international and national associations, but in terms of the individual member. You must see it as a vast global network of small, voluntary groups of country women. In literally thousands of small communities around the world, these local associations are to be found. They are, indeed, the Associated Country Women of the World itself. We have made a name for ourselves. "But there are vast rural areas in the world today where the changes so vitally affecting the lives of countrywomen to lighten their labors and improve their status, have not taken place, so we cannot be complacent about it. If changes in the traditions and habits are to be made, women must first see their value. Moreover, women in many of these lands are farmers and if the new. methods of agriculture are to be introduced, the women must first know their importance. We have a stake in these people, who must be brought into the 20th Century. They too, are part of the human race. There are no more frontiers, no more countries to which man can run. At last we must turn and learn to live with each other. That is what we are trying to do in the AC.W.W." The objects of the Associated Country Women of the World are: 1. Promote and maintain friendly and helpful relations between country women's organizations of all nations, and to give any possible help to their development in the economic, social and cultural sphere. 2. To further the common interests of these organizations. 3. Encourage formation of new organizations, especially in countries where this need has not been met. 19 |
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