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Suyapa Rodriguez
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Greetings!
In this issue we provide more information about the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign and how you and your local group can get involved. We also share the wonderful story of the 'birth' of Elsie Chelsea Worthmore, and how she came to be a symbol for ECW. You'll meet her birth-mother, Donna, and see a picture of Elsie herself on one of her travels. Elsie will soon be hopping on a plane to New York for the National ECW Board meeting at Stoney Point and a trip to the National Offices of the Episcopal Church.
Blessings,
The ECW Communications Team |
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 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign
November 25, 2010 -
December 10, 2010
Earlier this month an historic partnership between Episcopal Church Women, Episcopal Women's Caucus, and Anglican Women's Empowerment was announced.
The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is an international campaign originating from the first Women's Global Leadership Institute sponsored by the Center for Women's Global Leadership in 1991. Participants chose the dates November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and December 10, International Human Rights Day, in order to symbolically link violence against women and human rights and to emphasize that such violence is a human rights violation.
This 16-day period also highlights other significant dates, including November 29, International Women Human Rights Defenders Day, December 1, World AIDS Day, and December 6, the Anniversary of the Montreal Massacre.
Information you may find useful to share with your ECW group or your congregation includes the Call to Action for the 2010 Campaign, Key Dates that fall within the 16-day period from November 25 to December 10, and a Guide to Planning Your Campaign. All of these documents and complete details of the campaign are available at http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/16days/about.html
Please share how your local ECW group is involved this year in the Campaign by emailing National ECW President Marcia Himes at president@ecwnational.org |
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Elsie's Story
 What better time to reintroduce Elsie Chelsea Worthmore than with the upcomi ng Winter issue of the Communiqué which is dedicated to the young people in the Episcopal Church. Let's begin by telling you how Elsie became the 17th member of the ECW National Board. Donna Keller, (pictured above holding Elsie in front of a Jericho Road house in New Orleans) Past Vice President of Program, recalls that Elsie's story began with a discussion during a communication committee meeting of the 2006-2009 National ECW board. "We agreed that we wanted to reach young women to bring ECW alive. We asked, "what could we use to tell the ECW story to young girls?" Ideas were flying until someone said "Let's create an image of a young woman to be a spokesperson for ECW!" A sketch was drawn and a name was chosen, but someone special was needed to bring Elsie to life. Donna Keller continues the story... "I have made many dolls for my children and grandchildren in the past. When I saw the face Marilyn drew it reminded me of the dolls I had made. After the meeting, I told her I could make a doll to animate her sketch. We decided to keep Elsie a secret until she was completed and dressed for her first meeting."
Elsie will tell her story now...
"I first met the National Board and the board met me in April, 2008 in Palos Verdes, California. Donna drove me to the meeting in her car. She made me several different outfits so I would not have to wear the same thing every day. My two moms, Donna and Marilyn each held my hand as they led me into the meeting room. I had on my prettiest dress.
After my new friends got over their surprise, I was hugged and passed all around and really felt loved. It was fun to meet everyone, but I was happy when they started their meeting and let me rest in a chair.
The next meetings were really exciting. I got to ride in an airplane, and not in the baggage compartment but in the cabin in (or under) a seat! This meeting was at Trinity Conference Center in Connecticut in October 2008. It was so cold so mother Donna made me a beautiful red plaid coat. In March 2009 it was off to Solomon Episcopal Conference Center in New Orleans. I got to go to see the Jericho Road project that we have all been working on. I wore my new work jeans and even had a hard hat!
Our next meeting was at Proctor Center in Ohio in May 2009. Traveling home from that meeting was kind of scary because I got lost! I got mixed up with packages to be shipped to the board secretary and was sent to New Jersey to Aunt Nancy's. She did not notice me at first. It took a couple of weeks for mother Donna to find out where I was and have me sent home to her. After that I have always traveled and stayed with one of my two mothers, Donna or Marilyn.
The very best time I had was In July 2009 when I was the center of attention at the Triennial Meeting of the ECW in Anaheim California. I met so many new friends and listened to so many stories and saw so many good ways of helping others and learned of so many other women's groups like ECW that help young people like me and I wanted to be just like them. I asked Donna how could I be in ECW and she told me, I already was! So she gave me the new ECW pin for my pretty sweater that I had to wear every day.
There is more to my story, but to read the rest you will have to wait for the Winter issue of the Communiqué. You can read about me in the copy that comes in the mail, or online on the ECW web site. As soon as the issues are mailed there will be one on the web site for download.
I hope to get to meet you at the ECW Triennail in Indianapolis in 2012! The Board is working hard to make this an unforgettable gathering for ECW, so start planning now so you can attend!
Your Friend, Elsie
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Resources
We are always adding to our Resources page on the National ECW web site. Newly-added resources include links to downloadable versions of our ECW logo in assorted sizes, and information about the movie "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" that everyone is talking about. Find out why at http://ecwnational.org/resources.htm |
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Sincerely,
Christine Budzowski
National Episcopal Church Women
Member at Large, Multi-Media |
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