1. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak to you today
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak to you today. I’d like to tell you about our foundation, its history and mission and our goals for the current biennium. But mostly today I want to focus on Zonta’s accomplishments and how your contributions help Zonta change the lives of women and girls around the world.

2. Many of you are familiar with our foundation’s mission, but just to reiterate …….. Zonta International Foundation supports the approved charitable and educational programs of Zonta International.
The Foundation was established in 1984 and incorporated in It is governed by the officers and directors Zonta members elect at the Zonta International convention every two years.

3. Zonta International Foundation Funding
Funds the charitable and education programs of Zonta International.
Contributions go entirely to program support and development.
Zonta International membership dues support operating expenses.
Clubs are requested to give 1/3 of funds raised to ZIF
Friends of Zonta
Zonta Clubs
Zonta Members
The Foundation’s revenues come from donations from Zonta Clubs, Zontians, and friends of Zonta. Clubs are strongly encouraged to give at least 1/3 of the funds raised locally to the Foundation, keeping up to 2/3 for local service programs.
Because dues paid to Zonta International support the operating costs of the Foundation, all of the contributions made to the foundation can go directly to program support.
Dues are not donations.

4. Fundraising Goal
US$5,376,000
For our fundraising goal is US$ 5,376,000. The goal was set by the President-Elect , accepted by the ZIF Finance Committee and approved by the Zonta International Board to be sent to the Convention for voting.
The projects were adopted by the Convention. By adopting the projects, clubs are committed to funding the programs. We raise funds to support the programs of the current biennium. If we do not raise the full amount, we have to use reserves. It is important that we do not rely on the reserves and raise the money in the current biennium.
The Rose Fund is the unrestricted fund which is used to complete the funding of the other funds at the end of the biennium. It is always okay to go over this budget amount.

5. Fundraising Goal
US$5,376,000
For the current biennium, our fundraising goal is US$5,376,000 so we have work to do!
*ZISVAW: Zonta International Strategies to End Violence Against Women

6. Eliminating Obstetric Fistula in Liberia
Goals:
Help eliminate obstetric and traumatic fistula
Reduce maternal mortality, morbidity and sexual violence against women
Improve overall health and socioeconomic status of women and girls and empower them economically
Zonta has supported efforts to eliminate obstetric fistula in Liberia since During the last biennium, the Liberia Fistula Project moved from project-based treatment to treatment integrated into the government's national health system.
Approximately four out of every 10 deliveries in Liberia is at risk for obstetric fistula, a childbirth injury usually caused by prolonged, obstructed labor without timely medical intervention, usually a caesarean section.
The cost of one fistula surgery and post-operative care is only US$675. The cost of social rehabilitation for a fistula survivor is US$1,300.

7. Eliminating Obstetric Fistula in Liberia
Three-prong approach:
Prevention
Treatment
Rehabilitation and reintegration
Since Zonta began supporting the project:
1,079 women and girls have been surgically treated
240 survivors have been rehabilitated
UNFPA Liberia has an outstanding track record in implementing the fistula project using the three-prong approach to service delivery: prevention, treatment of obstetric fistula, and rehabilitation and reintegration of women and young girls following treatment
Significant progress has been made in addressing the plights of Liberian women and girls since the project establishment. A total of 1,079 women and girls with various types of fistulae have being surgically managed, and a total of 240 survivors have been rehabilitated and reintegrated into their mainstream communities.

8. Eliminating Obstetric Fistula in Liberia 2016-2018 Expected Outcomes
Improve the health and socio-economic status of more than 500 women and young girls
Achieve a 25 percent reduction in the occurrence of obstetric and traumatic fistula
Treat 500 women and girls living with fistula
Increase knowledge of obstetric fistula in 50 communities
Improve capacity of 50 local health practitioners
Eight specialist doctors trained in fistula management and care
The project’s goal in the Biennium includes working to improve the health and socio-economic status of more than 500 women and young girls, contributing to the achievement of a 25 percent reduction in the incidence of obstetric and traumatic fistula, providing 500 survivors with quality surgical and non-surgical treatment for fistula, increased knowledge of obstetric fistula in 50 communities throughout the country, improved capacity of 50 local health practitioners to handle the clinical and public health aspects of fistula in Liberia and training for eight specialist doctors in fistula management and care.

9. Let Us Learn Madagascar: An Integrated Program for Adolescent Girls
Goals:
Create opportunities for vulnerable and excluded girls to realize their rights to an education in a secure and protective environment.
Promote a common vision of investing in junior secondary education for girls as an entry point for equilty
Currently, about 90 percent of Madagascar's population lives on less than US$2 per day, leaving children particularly vulnerable.
In 2013, fair and democratic elections ended a four-year-long political crisis and paved the way for a new development agenda. Let Us Learn Madagascar is the nation's only program addressing issues of gender parity in education.
Aside from endemic poverty, Madagascar is prone to natural disasters, which further impede economic growth of the agricultural economy and make it even more difficult to escape poverty and prioritize education for children.

10. Let Us Learn Madagascar: An Integrated Program for Adolescent Girls Process
The program is focused on three pillars:
Reaching out of school children
Expanding girls’ education
Improving quality outcomes for learners
The program is focused on three pillars:
Reaching out-of-school children
Expanding girls’ education
Improving quality outcomes for learners
Mainly the goal is to create opportunities for vulnerable and excluded girls to realize their rights to an education in a secure and protective environment.
Barriers to access:
One out of three girls will become pregnant before the age of 18 and junior secondary school enrollment fees are prohibitively expensive for families, forcing parents to elect one child to continue their education often leaving girls behind.

11. Let Us Learn Madagascar: An Integrated Program for Adolescent Girls Process
Expected Outcomes:
1,042 post-primary teachers receive training
600 students receive catch-up classes
1,000 households receive conditional cash transfers for a two-year period
Four classrooms are rehabilitated and constructed with appropriate facilities
50 percent of girls in school know about protection services that are available
Specific strategies:
• Ensure that families and communities are aware of child protection laws, services and harmful practices against children and that they exhibit behaviors that protect adolescent girls from sexual violence, early marriage and exploitation, all factors that reduce girls’ continuing their education.
• Target girls in the 5th grade (last year of primary school) to receive peer support from girls in 7th grade (second year of junior secondary school) to facilitate their transition from primary to junior secondary school.
• Offer Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) to vulnerable girls from low-income families in their final year of primary school with conditions that include enrollment, passing grades, and minimum absenteeism from school.
• Construct four junior secondary school classrooms with water points and latrines to ensure healthy habits are taught, practiced and integrated into daily school routines and that appropriate facilities are available to students to ensure the physical and psychosocial health needed to stay in school. The construction of the classrooms will include the provision of school furniture, teaching and instructional materials and a sports field.
• Focus on violence prevention efforts at the individual, school, family and community levels to transform gender norms and attitudes that accept gender-based violence.
• Facilitate access to quality medical and psychosocial support for victims of violence within a reasonable timeframe through a coordinated community response.

12. Delaying Early Marriage in Niger
Goals:
To reduce early marriage and early pregnancy in critical mass of communities in all regions of Niger
Interventions are planned on three levels:
Adolescent girls
Community
National
Niger has the highest child marriage rate in the world. 30 percent of adolescent girls are married before 15 years old and 77 percent before percent of them give birth before 17 years old. Girls are exposed to medical and social risks, limiting their potential and their development.
The goal of this project is to reduce early marriage and early pregnancy in a critical mass of communities and departments in all the regions of Niger.
Interventions are planned at three levels to attain the following results:
Adolescent girls level : Adolescent girls are healthy, educated and reinforced with essential life skills, knowledge and resources, allowing them to defend their rights, reduce vulnerability, and participate in the socio-economic development of their communities
Community level: Traditional and religious leaders, parents and others who have power are involved in positive change of social norms in their community, and promote later marriages and pregnancies
National level: The existing laws on the age of marriage (currently 14 for girls) are reviewed and improved, and multidimensional needs of adolescents are addressed in national policies and programs.
Photo | What Took You So Long

13. Delaying Early Marriage in Niger
The program is designed to build the health, social and economic assets of adolescent girls’ for their empowerment, to arm them to protect themselves against early and forced marriage and early pregnancy.
The program is designed to build the health, social, and economic assets of adolescent girls’ for their empowerment, to arm them to protect themselves against early and forced marriage and early pregnancy.
The following strategies are developed to reach different objective’s levels:
Empower girls: In community-based safe spaces, where the girls feel secure, they are mentored by an older female in groups of 20.
Promote social change: During dialogues organized by community facilitators and home visits by mentors, they raise awareness and advocate against early and forced marriage and teenage pregnancy. They also promote reproductive health and rights of girls.
Monitor, evaluate and create evidence for advocacy: Evidence generated by this program is used to feed into national policymaking and advocate for positive legal and legislative change.
Photo | What Took You So Long

14. Delaying Early Marriage in Niger
With an average cost of US$85 per girl, Zonta’s contribution will enable approximately 11,000 adolescents to participate in the program from
Evidences of pilot phase showed knowledge diffusion around the girls since they shared with their parents, relatives and peers.
With an average cost of US $85 per girl, Zonta’s total population coverage is approximately close to 11,000 adolescent girls over the period.
Photo | What Took You So Long

15. The Future We Want: Creating Sustainable Foundations for Addressing Human Trafficking and Unsafe Migration of Women and Girls in Nepal
Goal:
Create sustainable foundations for addressing the connection between human trafficking and foreign labor migration of women and girls in Nepal
Nepal has long been a country of origin for labor migration and trafficking in persons, particularly women and children, for the purposes of sexual, labor and other forms of exploitation. Trafficking often takes place as part of undocumented migration and is a serious violation of human rights.
Direct beneficiaries include 600 survivors of trafficking and vulnerable women migrants. Indirect beneficiaries include 100,000 young people, community leaders, local authorities, camp coordinators, schools, families of migrants and members of networks from earthquake affected districts.
The project will focus on both prevention of and response to trafficking.

16. Addressing Human Trafficking and Unsafe Migration of Women and Girls in Nepal
Strategies:
Enhance evidence base through mapping report of underlying risk factors for women in selected districts
Engage in public awareness campaigns
Enhance technical skills, including financial literacy for job placement and/ or entrepreneurship development
The following activities are underway:
Create an enabling environment in homes and communities to address structural barriers, gender based discrimination and stereotypical intergenerational socialization patterns.
Strengthen individual competencies of women migrant workers and survivors of trafficking to become independent economic actors using vocational training and public private partnerships.
Enhance coherence/ synergy between institutions and policies on the issues of foreign employment and human trafficking.

17. Addressing Human Trafficking and Unsafe Migration of Women and Girls in Nepal Progress
Expected Outcomes:
Legislative and policy framework that addresses connection between trafficking and migration with Nepal’s international and national commitments is in place and effectively implemented
A reduction in incidents of trafficking linked to foreign labor migration of women
Enhance evidence base through mapping report of underlying risk factors for women in the selected districts.
Engage in public awareness campaigns to challenge gender-based discriminations, mobilizing partners, young people, community leaders as well as transport sector personnel.
• Leverage partnerships to strengthen information dissemination on reconstruction and livelihoods post-earthquakes.
Enhance technical skills, including financial literacy, of trafficking survivors and returnee women migrant workers for job placement and/or entrepreneurship development.
• Review corporate social responsibility policies and practices of corporations and advocate on the Women’s Empowerment Principles to promote women’s economic empowerment.

18. Amelia Earhart Fellowship Fund
US$700,000
35 US$10,000 Fellowships are awarded each year to recipients from all over the world
One of Zonta International’s longest-running programs is the Amelia Earhart Fellowship Program.
Since the program’s inception, Zonta International has awarded 1,508 Amelia Earhart Fellowships, totaling more than US$9.3 million, to 1,079 women from 70 countries.

19. Jane M. Klausman Women in Business Scholarship Fund
12 international scholarships of US$7,000 each
32 district/region scholarships of US$1,000 each
The Jane M. Klausman Women in Business Scholarship is for women pursuing an undergraduate or master’s degree in business or a business-related field.
Since the program's inception in 1998, Zonta has awarded 441 Scholarships, totaling more than US$1 million, to 335 women from 50 countries.

20. Young Women in Public Affairs Award
US$144,000
10 international awards of US$4,000 each
32 district/region awards of US$1,000 each
The Young Women in Public Affairs Award recognizes young women for their commitment to the volunteer sector, evidence of volunteer leadership achievements and dedication to empowering women worldwide through service and advocacy.
Since the program's inception, Zonta has given 804 awards (includes international awards), totaling US$764,750, to 692 young women representing 54 countries.

21. As of 31 July 2016, the Foundation raised US$ 338,132. 94 which in 6
As of 31 July 2016, the Foundation raised US$ 338, which in 6.3% of our goal.
The Rose Fund is the unrestricted fund which is used to complete the funding of the other funds at the end of the biennium. It is always okay to go over this budget amount.

22. FOUNDATION AMBASSADOR: Share which project you feel most passionately about and enjoy giving to. If you feel comfortable doing so, ask three people in the audience which they feel most strongly about.
(From l to r: Row 1- Madagascar (ISP), Niger (ZISVAW), Liberia (ISP); Row 2- Nepal (ZISVAW), ZIF logo, Niger (ZISVAW); Row 3:AE Fellow, YWPA, JMK)

23. Donate Today Donate to one of the following Funds:
Amelia Earhart Fellowship
Jane M. Klausman Women in Business Scholarship
Young Women in Public Affairs Award
International Service
ZISVAW
Rose
You can make your donation to any of the funds listed above.

24. Campaigns and Giving Opportunities – Important Dates
ZISVAW Campaign (October)
Every Member Every November
Amelia Earhart Month (January)
Zonta Rose Day/ International Women’s Day (March)
Celebrating successful events or milestone anniversaries
Memorials when Zontians pass away
Convention recognition - 30 April 2018
Annual Report recognition – 31 May
End of fiscal year – 31 May
Above are Campaigns and Giving Opportunities. Also listed are some important dates to be aware of Annual Report and Convention recognition.
No one is expected to participate in every campaign. Different appeals prompt action from different people.

25. Remember, every member makes a difference.
On 8 November 2016, Zonta International will celebrate its 97th birthday.  We invite you to join the celebration and help change the lives of women around the world. As a Zontian, you have already made a personal commitment to build a better world for women. During November, the Zonta International Foundation is asking all Zontians to make an individual donation to the Foundation. 
You have just heard about how our projects and programs, supported by the Zonta International Foundation, help women achieve a life free of violence and overcome gender barriers that hinder their access to health, education and professional advancement.
By making your personal donation to the Foundation this November you will join Zonta International in empowering women worldwide.

26. Zonta International Foundation How will you EMPOWER HER?
Thank you for all you do for Zonta and the Zonta International Foundation. Hopefully today’s presentation has helped you understand how your contributions help Zonta change the lives of women and girls around the world.
Zonta International Foundation
How will you EMPOWER HER?