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Concepción Felix Roque (9 February 1884 – 26 January 1967) was a Filipina feminist and human rights activist.She established one of the first women's organizations in the Philippines, Asociación Feminista Filipina, as well as one of the first humanitarian NGOs, La Gota de Leche, aimed specifically at the well-being of mothers and their children.
The organization of the Baguio and San Pablo YWCAs took place in 1946-47 and the first YWCA National Convention was held in 1948. This led to the recognized need for forming an umbrella organization, which consequently became the YWCA of the Philippines, conceived to serve as a coordinating body for organized local clubs that had begun to ...
League of Women Voters of South Australia(1909–1979) Lyceum Club (Australia), founded 1972. Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, founded 1902. National Council of Women of Australia, founded 1888, affiliated with the International Council of Women. National Council of Women of Queensland, founded 1905.
The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme is a United Nations organization that contributes to peace and development through volunteerism worldwide. Volunteerism is a powerful means of engaging people in tackling development challenges, and it can transform the pace and nature of development. Volunteerism benefits both society at large and ...
International volunteering has a long association with international development or environment, with the aim of bringing benefits to host communities. [ 1 ] It can include a range of services, from healthcare advancement to economic development to governance. Trends show that international volunteering has become increasingly popular across ...
The Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) is an organization of lay volunteers who volunteer one year or more to community service with poor communities. JVC works in inner city neighborhoods and rural communities in about 36 different cities throughout the U.S. [1] JVC works with the homeless, abused women and children, immigrants and refugees, the mentally ill, people with HIV/AIDS and other ...
Asociación Feminista Filipina. The Asociación Feminista Filipina (Philippine Feminist Association) or AFF was a Filipino women's organization, founded in 1905. [ 1 ][ 2 ] It was the first women's organization in the Philippines. [ 1 ][ 3 ] The objective of the organization was the betterment of women's well-being regardless of class. [ 4 ]
In 2009, Republic Act No. 10072 or the Philippine Red Cross Act of 2009, was signed into law by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.The law is an affirmation of the country's "conformity with the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their additional protocols, and the Statutes of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement", as well as a confirmation of the PRC's stand as a "voluntary ...