18 oktober 2015 | Door: Dieke Hengelaar

How to get Envision 2035 & Gangnam style in 1 day

This last day of the Council has already been revolutionary at the beginning of the day. Yesterday there has been a voting for the World Board. The results were the revolutionary aspect of this, because 60% of the elected persons are 30 years or ...

Bangkok - Thailand

17 oktober 2015 | Door: Jeannette van Dongen

Last day of the World Council

Friday the last day of the congress was very interesting. A lot of voting was going on and when a proposal came to amend our constitution, which is based on the declaration of human rights by the UN, the debate was fierce. The proposal was to add ...

Bangkok - Thailand

16 oktober 2015

Leadership development towards filing a motion

While we were travelling to Bangkok we recieved adapted documentation on the proposal of affiliations fees. Indicating a formula of calculation equal to 3% of each member association's unrestricted income with a minimum of CHF500. For our Dutch ...

Bangkok - Thailand

14 oktober 2015 | Door: Sanne Meijer

"Do not stop until they listen to you"

Like every day at World Council, this day started with morning worship. It's a lovely way of starting the day and I enjoy every morning worship. Every service features a theme, a traditional Thai color, regional and partner contributors and a local ...

Bangkok - Thailand

13 oktober 2015 | Door: Jeannette van Dongen

Spending time with very special ladies

The congress of YWCA International started her second day with many speeches. Most impressive was the (pre-recorded) speech of Aung San Suu Kyi from the National League for democracy in Birma. To be spoken to by a powerful lady like her, gives all ...

Bangkok - Thailand

12 oktober 2015

World council dag 1

World Council dag 1: Daar gaan we dan, 5 Nederlanders tussen de rest van de wereld. Per land kwamen we de conferentiezaal binnen met lachende en klappende mensen (YWCA zusters). We worden welkom geheten en krijgen praktische informatie. We stemmen ...

Bangkok - Thailand

11 oktober 2015 | Door: Dieke Hengelaar

Leadership is never personal, always collective

In this blog I, Dieke, will tell you about our second day in Bangkok! Until two o’clock that day, two of our young members attended the pre-forum for Young Women’s meeting and after that we enjoyed ourselves with some free time, to end with a ...

Bangkok - Thailand

11 oktober 2015 | Door: Sanne Meijer

Lots of inspiration at the Young Women's Forum

A note for our regular Dutch readers: during the time that we’re in Thailand we’re mostly going to blog in English, so we can share our blogs with other participants of the World Council. A note for readers happening to read this for the ...

Bangkok - Thailand

6 september 2015 | Door: Sanne Meijer

Het doel van onze reis

Toen we een jaar geleden begonnen met de voorbereidingen van de Council hebben we nagedacht waar we ons als delegatie op wilden richten. We besloten ons te richten op twee thema's: 'good governance' en sexual orientation & gender identity (SOGI). ...

Utrecht - Nederland

5 augustus 2015 | Door: Sanne Meijer

Nog maar 2 maanden...

Nog maar 2 maanden en dan is het zover: dan reizen wij (Wieske, Messalina, Dieke, Jeannette en ondergetekende) af naar Bangkok (Thailand) om de World Council van de World Y bij te wonen. We hebben er al een jaar aan voorbereidingen op zitten en ik ...

Utrecht - Nederland

World Council Bangkok 2015

In oktober 2015 reizen we af naar Bangkok (Thailand) om daar de 28e World Council van de World YWCA bij te wonen. Op deze blog delen wij graag onze belevenissen!

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18 Oktober 2015

How to get Envision 2035 & Gangnam style in 1 day

17 Oktober 2015

Last day of the World Council

16 Oktober 2015

Leadership development towards filing a motion

14 Oktober 2015

"Do not stop until they listen to you"

13 Oktober 2015

Spending time with very special ladies

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Bangkok - Thailand

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Actief sinds	18 Jan. 2011
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09 Oktober 2015 - 16 Oktober 2015

World Council Bangkok 2015

10 Juli 2011 - 16 Juli 2011

World Council Zurich 2011

How to get Envision 2035 & Gangnam style in 1 day

Last day of the World Council

Leadership development towards filing a motion

"Do not stop until they listen to you"

Spending time with very special ladies

World council dag 1

Leadership is never personal, always collective

Lots of inspiration at the Young Women's Forum

Het doel van onze reis

Nog maar 2 maanden...

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