Diane Curtis is the President of Zonta International for the 2010-2012 biennium. She has been a member of the Zonta Club of Santa Clarita Valley in California
since 1980. She served as Governor of District 9, Chairman of the Convention Committe for the 1992 Convention in Hawaii, and has held all positions on the International Board except Treasurer.
Dianne wants the lives of those to whom we give service to improve. That improvement could be living free of fear, living healthy lives, ending violence against women and children, and building a better world full of love and
peace.
She is committed to increase our membership, which she says "is vital to our ability to influence the status of women in the future."
For more information about International President Dianne Curtis, go to
click here
The Zonta International Service Program for the 2010-2012 biennium include:
- The Preventional of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Gender-Based Violence in Rwanda, a project in cooperation with UNICEF. Zonta International is providings $500, 000 to support this program.
- The Elimination of Obstetric Fistula and the Reduction of Maternal and Newborn Mortality and Morbidity in Liberia, a project in cooperation with UNFPA. Zonta International is providing $500, 000 to support this program
- The Safe Cities for Women Project for Women in Guatamala City, Guatamala and San Salvador, El Salvador, a project in cooperation with UNIFEM. Zonta International is providing $500, 000 to support this program.
The Zonta International Strategies to End Violence Against Women include:
- A comprehensive strategy to end burns violence against women in Cambodia, Nepal and Uganda, a project in cooperation with the UNIFEM. Zonta International is providing $430,000 to support this project.
- Security and Empowerment for Women and their Families: Ensuring a Gender-Responsive Humanitarian and Early Recovery Response in Haiti, a project in cooperation with UNIFEM. Zonta International is providing $200, 000 to support this project.
For additional information about Zonta International, click here
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Message from Zonta International on 8/6/2010 3:59:00 PM
Zonta recognized by UNFPA
6 August 2010
Dear Zontians,
Zonta International is featured on the UNFPA Campaign to End Fistula website for our support of the obstetric fistula program in Liberia. Please click on the link below to read the complete story.
http://www.endfistula.org/news_features.htm
Thank you all for your continued support of this project and all the programs funded through the Zonta International Foundation.
Dianne K. Curtis
Zonta International President
Zonta International Foundation President
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Message from Zonta International on 7/6/2010 1:10:00 PM
UN Women, the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
6 July 2010
Dear Zontians
On Friday 2 July, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously decided to establish UN Women, the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.
For those of you who were able to attend the Zonta International Convention in San Antonionm you heard firsthand from Keynote Speaker Carolyn Hannan, former Director of the Division for the Advancement of Women at the United Nations, how critical it is to combine the efforts of the four UN organizations working on gender issues - United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW), the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women (OSAGI), and the UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW). The creation of a single entity with adqueate resources will focus and enhance efforts to promote and advance the rights of women and girls around the world.
This announcement is an historic one, and I wanted to share this news with all of you. Ines Alberdi, Executive Director of UNIFEM has issued a statement which I encourage you all to read. Click here for the English version of her statement.
Dianne K. Curtis
Zonta International President
Zonta Internatonal Foundation President
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Message from Zonta International on 8/6/2010 3:17:00 PM
Zonta sells Wacker condominium
TO: All Members
3 August 2010
EXCELLENT NEWS!!!
The Zonta International Foundation Board is pleased to announce that escrow closed and the final documents were signed on the Wacker condominium property on 26 July 2010.
The sales price was US$1,250,000. In this down commercial real estate market, we are very pleased with the result.
Dianne K. Curtis
Zonta International Foundation President
