As it was planning its annual “Skydance Bridge Lighting,” the Zonta Club of Central Oklahoma, USA, discovered Presidente Ute Scholz and Executive Director Allison Summers would be in town. The club invited them—and all District 10 members—to the event, which also included a proclamation by Midwest City Mayor Matt Dukes.
Hong Kong Z clubs involve classmates in advocating for ending gender-based violence
The Zonta Club of Hong Kong’s Z clubs used unity chains to join students and their schools in making a powerful statement about uniting in the Zonta Says NO to Violence Against Women global campaign.
More than 400 students at St. Mary’s Canossian College wrote words of encouragement on orange strips of paper. Strips were connected to form the word “NO.” 
Members of the True Light Girls’ College Z Club asked their classmates to write their thoughts about violence against women and girls on orange strips of paper. Each class then joined their strips to create their own unity chain and took a picture holding the chain. 
Members of the Good Hope School Z Club hung unity chains around the school to remind and connect students to the issue of violence against women in the world. The executive committee also created the word “NO” with their unity chains. 
The St. Paul’s Convent School Z Club created a unity chain with each member expressing their feelings about violence against women by writing meaningful words on orange strips of paper. The strips of paper were joined to create unity chains.
Zonta Club of Hong Kong partners with a crisis center for peer counselor program to help gender-based violence survivors
The Zonta Club of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, joined with the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Cease Crisis Center to kick off “V4V Survivor-mentors Endorsement Ceremony.” Fifteen women were appointed as peer counselors to encourage and support women who are facing domestic violence and crisis.
The V4V (Victim for Victim) project’s objective is to provide shelter and care for women who are experiencing domestic violence and support them after they have left the center so that they can adapt to the changes in their lives, rebuild their confidence and reestablish themselves in society.
Zonta Club of Adelaide Hills Inc spreads awareness of gender-based violence in local businesses and holds a vigil of remembrance
For the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, members of the Zonta Club of Adelaide Hills Inc, Australia, canvassed local businesses. As a result, 18 businesses and two state politicians’ offices displayed a total of 37 orange ladies with accompanying flyers and countertop information sheets on the 16 Days of Activism.
A boutique effectively dressed their window in all orange items for the 16 days and a bakery made orange iced donuts and displayed the countertop information appropriately. In addition, two orange ladies were displayed in the local Federal Member of Parliament’s office in Canberra. One particular orange lady that drew attention was displayed atop a crane at an Equipment Hire facility. All the orange ladies were modeled on actual people and used with their permission.
The club also hosted a vigil at the iconic Windy Point, overlooking the city of Adelaide, to remember women who have lost their lives in domestic violence.
Zonta Club of New Territories II adds men to the conversation on violence against women
To maximize the effect of He for She, the Zonta Club of New Territories II, Hong Kong, made a 2 minutes Youtube video featuring 15 successful men in Hong Kong sharing their secrets to success. The secret lies in working hard, being dedicated to their profession, and not perpetuating violence against women.
In the news: “Music, sharing and networking between associations for the charity concert of Zonta Club Taranto
It was a “magical” evening, as the many present who attended to support the service that the Zonta Taranto Club dedicated to the non-profit organization ” Gli Amici di Manaus ” liked to define it on the evening of Friday 2 December at the Salone degli Specchi of the Palazzo di Città of Taranto.
“Where words fail … music speaks”, began the president of ZCT Evelyn Zappimbulso who, quoting Beethoven, invited everyone to listen with the universal language of music which, even on difficult topics, can make inroads in a vast audience and varied.
The evening, conducted by the Zontian partner of ceremonies Silvia Abeille , inserted in the 16 days of activism, starting from the motivations of the day of November 25, established to draw attention to gender-based violence, wanted to celebrate the pact of alliance that Zonta Club Taranto has closely with the associations active in the area that have been active for the protection of human rights for years.
Zonta member Silvia Abeille Master of Ceremonies
In particular with the non-profit organization “Gli Amici di Manaus”, which operates on various fronts: from the food emporium, to social-health accompaniment, to active support for the congregation of nuns in Manaus, up to the help of “neighbors”, families in difficulty in our area. The service of the evening, entirely dedicated to the non-profit organization, benefited from the special donation of another association. Fabio Matacchiera, president of the Taranto Antidioxin Fund, joining the charitable purposes and sharing the mission of Zonta, wanted to pay homage to the president Giovanni De Giorgio and the vice president Adriano D’Altriof the non-profit organization “Gli Amici di Manaus”, with a large sum of as well as the presence of numerous activists of his association.
An evening of music signed a synergy of actions that are transformed into a network of support and help between associations that have the good of people at heart, therefore of the entire community.
Fabio Matacchiera President Antidioxin Fund Taranto
The event was enlivened by the performance of music teachers and Corsicans who, between a score and a piece, were accompanied by the applause of the whole hall. The musical curtain was opened by Simone Mairo from the piano class of Prof. Palmira Esposito (Zonta member); the Parsifal Polyphonic Choir then performed, directed by Maestro Andrea Crastolla , president Annarita Di Sansebastiano and vice president Anna Sturino (member of Zonta), with maestro Daniele Chiappini on the piano and prof.ssa Francesca Schirinzi on the violin. Finally the exhibition of the very young students of the‘String Orchestra of the Liceo Musicale “Archita” of Taranto, conducted by Prof. Cosima Meluccui , who wished those present a Holy Christmas on the notes of the Pastorale Tarantina.
Choir Parsifal Maestro Crastolla
Class of Strings from the Liceo Archite Prof.ssa Melucci
Maestro Daniele Chiappini on piano and Prof. Francesca Schirinzi on violin
Parsifal Choir President Annarita Disansebastiano and Vice President Anna Sturino (member zonta)
Archite high school string class
Among the supporters of the initiative are also the women of the newly established association ” Opportunity for Equality “, with the president Sabrina Pontrelli and the President of the Commission for Equal Opportunities, the City Councilor Bianca Boshniaku.
President of the Commission for Equal Opportunities Boshniaku Bianca
As foreseen by the international statute, the concert was started and closed with the ringing of the Zonta bell and the reading of the Zontian creed by the youngest member Rossella Galeone .
Member Rossella Galeone_reading of the Zontian Creed
This year Zonta Club Taranto did not join the thousand demonstrations of November 25, letting a date that is now too often inflated and abused for the use and consumption of propaganda slogans flow in silence which, with the spotlights and microphones turned off, fall into oblivion of anniversaries to be dusted off the next year. But he wanted to deliver his message to a charity concert, which in any case falls within the 16 days of Zontian activism.
In fact, there are several initiatives that Zonta Club Taranto puts in place in this period and which continue throughout the year. Together with the non-profit organization “Gli Amici di Manaus” it will support local welfare initiatives; the project “Building the Culture of Respect” will continue for the tenth consecutive year in the schools of the Ionian area, starting from next December 12 and which will involve the students of the Hotel Institute of Pulsano with the criminal lawyer Antonella De Marco (Zonta member). On 17 December it will support the “Multicentrum” project of the Casa di Sofia with a donation, a charity event of the “Voce dei Bambini”, organized by the principal Gianni Tartaglia, now in its sixth edition.
The activism of Zonta Taranto members has been working to the bitter end, with passion and courage, since 1977, the year of its foundation. The members therefore wanted to celebrate their over forty-year action in the field with a charity concert, in defense and support of women’s rights.
Members Zonta Club Taranto
“ Sometimes words are not enough. And then you need the colors. And the shapes. And the notes. And the emotions ”_Alessandro Baricco
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Zonta Club of Tokyo II shines the spotlight on violence against women in Japan
In conjunction with the Zonta Says NO campaign, the Zonta Club of Tokyo II, Japan, discussed the current state of violence against women in Japan.
Zonta Club of Halifax lights the world’s most photographed lighthouse in orange
Zonta Club of Milano Sant’Ambrogio holds “Beyond Violences … Values” workshop
On 25 November, the Zonta Club of Milano Sant’Ambrogio, Italy, coordinated with the Milanese Women Council by CAP Group, a major water utility in Lombardy, to hold the “Beyond Violences … Values” workshop.
The club presented exhibits and powerful speeches during the workshop in the presence of local authorities, managers and representatives of the employees within the Italian water utilities.
Zonta Club of Sunna gathers in Reykjavík to raise awareness for ending violence against women
On 4 December, members of the Zonta Club of Sunna, Iceland, organized a gathering in the center of Reykjavík with other Zontians in the area to raise awareness of gender-based violence and support the campaign to end violence against women.
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