ManUp! High School Program
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2014/15 Year in Review
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PACT Update / E4D Video
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Human Trafficking Zonta Program
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Elder Abuse Awareness
[av_one_half first] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] Building Awareness about Elder Abuse Program 2013-2014 The Zonta Ottawa members held a strategic planning session and agreed to focus our program for 2013-2014 on violence against women locally. This focus is in keeping with the Zonta International program “Strategies to End Violence Against Women” which has as one […]
2008-2012 Welcoming New Immigrants
Welcoming New Immigrants Program 2009-2012 Program goal for Zonta Club of Ottawa, 2009-2012: To understand the diverse cultural and integration challenges of recently immigrated, internationally-educated, professional women in Ottawa so that the Zonta Club of Ottawa can use its newly acquired knowledge to work towards making a focused, manageable, and effective impact on local areas of need. […]