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Since 2014, Adan has worked for Save Somali Women and Children (SSWC) as a program manager and co-chair of the Gender Based Violence work group (GBV). [3] SSWC was founded in 1992 in Mogadishu by Somali women, whose goals were to create a non-profit organization that would support Somali girls and women who were marginalized and experiencing violence and poverty in their communities.
The club was founded by abolitionist, suffragist, mother, and Los Angeles homemaker Caroline Severance in 1891, with 87 other women in the reading room of the Hollenbeck Hotel, then located at Second and Broadway. [2] The Friday Morning Club became the largest women's club in California, with membership of over 1,800 women by the 1920s. [3] [4] [5]
Wilfandel Club, founded 1945, oldest African American women's club in Los Angeles; Women's Athletic Club of Alameda County, Oakland, CA, NRHP-listed, whose NRHP doc also gives info about: Woman's Athletic Club of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, NRHP-listed [citation needed] Woman's Athletic Club of San Francisco (1914), 640 Sutter St ...
About 97.9% of Somalia's women and girls underwent female genital mutilation in a 2005 study. This was at the time the world's highest prevalence rate of the procedure. [23] A UNICEF 2010 report reported that Somalia had the world's highest rate of Type III FGM, with 79% of all Somali women having undergone the procedure.
IIDA Women's Development Organisation (IIDA) is a non-governmental organisation founded in Mogadishu, Somalia by a group of Somali women leaders to provide relief and emergency services to women and children affected by the civil war in Somalia. Over the years, IIDA has evolved to focus on policy development and strengthening accountability of ...
Culver City EverWalk Walking Club. When, in 2016, long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad and her friend and coach Bonnie Stoll organized the first EverWalk event — a 135-mile trek from Santa Monica to ...
In the 2000s, Elmi formed the Sixth Clan women's movement to advance female participation in Somali politics. She was later selected to the Transitional Federal Parliament (TFP) on August 29, 2004, and served until 2009. [3] Elmi is also the founder of Save Somali Women and Children (SSWC), created in 1992 during the height of the Somali Civil War.
Thick Strip dancers Giselle Gonzalez, 29, foreground, of Los Angeles, and Vivi Fierce, 28, of Hollywood get ready before one of the group's semi-regular shows at the Ace Hotel. (Mel Melcon / Los ...