Zonta Club of NanaimoEducation
Advocacy
The Zonta Club of Nanaimo BC is a member club of Zonta International, District 8. Founded in 1919, Zonta International is a global service organization of executives in business and the professions working together, across political and social boundaries, to advance the status of women worldwide.
Founded in 1919, Zonta International is a global organization of executives and professionals working together to advance the status of women worldwide through service and advocacy. Zonta members volunteer their time, talents and money to local and international service projects, as well as scholarship and awards programs aimed at furthering women's education, leadership and youth development.
The Zonta Club of Nanaimo was chartered in 1993. For more information on the Nanaimo Club please browse this website or for Zonta International go to www.zonta.org.
The Jane M. Klausman Awards for Women in Business
Deadline for 2009 - April 15th
Women at Vancouver Island University in the 2nd or 3rd year of a Business Degree program are eligible for the Jane M. Klausman Awards. The deadline for this award is April 15th 2009, please see the scholarship page of this website for further details.
Miss Dana Short, right, is the Zonta Club of Nanaimo's 2009 Young Women in Public Affairs Award recipient. Short, a student at Nanaimo District Secondary School, devotes considerable time to 
volunteer commitments and community organizations. The award is given to young women who have demonstrated knowledge in global activities and awareness of issues such as violence, discrimination, and public affairs and public policies.
Ardella Freko, Zonta board member, is pictured with the award recipient. The occasion took place at the Zonta club of nanaimo's Yellow Rose Day and International Womens Day celebration at the Nanaimo Golf club on March 6th.
International Women's Day Event 2009
Daphne Bramham, author and columnist, (below) with Celia White, one of five of Zonta International's Young Women in Public Affairs Award recipients in 2008.
Bramham is the author of "The Secret Lives of Saints", the situation in Bountiful, BC. Canada relating to the polygamist environment there and the transporting of young women across the Canada US border to other settlements that advocate polygamy.
Bramham spoke at the Zonta Club of Nanaimo's Yellow Rose Day and International Womens Day celebration. Columnist with the Vancouver Sun, Bramham has researched and written on Bountiful and polygamy situations since 2004. The venue was sold out; every attendee received a long stemmed yellow rose as a gift.
Celia white, YWPA 2008 ZI recipient, is now in Global Studies at Vancouver Island University and will spend the summer working in a volunteer capacity at projects in Central AMerica, including one in Comitancillo, Guatemala, where a young nurse from Nanaimo set up a rural health clinic in 2004
