July 2022

France: for the first time ever, the 4th most important person of the Republic is a woman = Yael BRAUN-PIVET (1970) with grand parents from Eastern Europe, she lived seven years in Asia (Taiwan and Japan). She has been elected President of the “Assemblée Nationale“

June 2022

COLUMBIA: a woman as Vice-President of the Republic Francia MARQUEZ (1981)
UKRAINE: “our son wants to be a soldier” (by Olena Zelenska)
Russians for peace= https://roar-review.com/
USA: /google-pays-118-million-dollars-to-settle-a-collective-complaint-of-women/
UK: 70 years as a Queen! Elisabeth II, devoted to her country

May 2022

• France: on May 16th, a woman is chosen to be Prime Minister (Elisabeth Borne – 1961) only second time after Edith CRESSON in 1982 (who’s in charge only less than a year)
• Costa Rican and asylum-seeking women come together to save cacao plantation (more on this page)
• Iran: a radio for women (Radio Begum) founded by Hamida Aman

April 2022

• Fantastic actions for UKRAINE on the European level (in France especially)
• In Russia: “Women in Black” and “Mothers for Peace”
• BPW international with her President, Catherine BOSSHART
• on 24th April: anniversary of women vote in France

Katarzyna BEKASIAK, coordinator “HELP Ukrainian women in Poland”

a bilingual person (English/Polish) with enormous energy, concerned by the environment.

She combines many skills: she graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Trade at the University of Economics, works for women at the Business and Professional Women’s Foundation, which is an organization that promotes programs supporting the needs of working women, communities and companies.

She actively participates and co-organizes the Congress of Women, co-runs a Retirement Home, and works for people with disabilities.

PASSIONS

art, furniture and architecture: she brought back life to the old train station in Puszczykowo.

She likes changes, new places, meeting new people and making numerous contacts all over the world {she always answers mails! believe me}.

“All people are important, we do not divide them into better and worse. Let us help those who need help the most. Let us ensure the safety and respect for the rights of people with disabilities as well as their parents and guardians”.

COMMITMENTS

• Member of the civic initiative “We want all life!”
• Activist for people with disabilities, vice president of the Association of People and Families for mental health “Understanding and Help”
• President of the Polish Federation of Business & Professional Women Clubs (BPW) acting for the benefit of professionally active women, supporting the initiatives they have undertaken.
• Co-founder of the Association of “Marcinek” Students – High School No. 1 in Poznań, member of the board, organizer of regular meetings of her year.
• Co-organizer of charity concerts, conferences, forums for free discussion and exchange of views

WHAT I AM PASSIONATE ABOUT:

… forms of support for women in the labor market
… the needs of people with disabilities
… coping with the problems of people with disabilities in life

https://porozmawiajmy.com/rozmawiaj/katarzyna-bekasiak/

Translation into English by Brigitte CASSIGNEUL (with the help of Google translate) March 2022

Contact Europe: for security reasons, we don't publish her data!

March 2022

Izkia SICHES (1986) On January 21, 2022, at 35, named by President-elect Boric of CHILE as Minister of Interior and Public Security, in the announcement of his first Cabinet, take office on March 11. She is the first woman to hold that position, the second most important in government after the President. wikipedia

Marta ORTEGA PEREZ (1984) will be President of INDITEX next April (her bio) The company was created near La Coruña (Galicia-north of Spain). 7000 boutiques including ZARA trademark. Staff: more than 144,000 individuals!

February 2022

Solidarity with women from Ukraine

List of precise things to send to UKRAINE = http://amc.ukr.fr

• money through an interational network (Caritas international)
• contacts through a network of women (some BPW clubs) send me a mail

We help them taking advantage of their stay in counties near Ukraine (Poland, Moldavia, Hungary and Slovakia) to improve their skills in English, languages and computers …

November 2021

• on 7th: NY Marathon (half of participants are women, but only since 1972!) Nina Kuscsik was the a pioneer that year

• International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women – 25 November (let’s prepare it)

October 2021

• Save our planet = Greta THUNBERG (born 2003) a very good interview THE GUARDIAN
• Bärbel BAS (DE) born 1968: On 26 October 2021, she was elected as the 14th President of the Bundestag for the 20th Bundestag, with 576 votes for, 90 against, and 58 abstentions. The third female Bundestag president, after Annemarie Renger (SPD) and Rita Süssmuth (CDU).^[5] more on wikipedia

September 2021

• Iceland: at almost 48% of the total, that is the highest percentage for women lawmakers in Europe! (26th sept)
• Nomination of the first woman as Head of the “LOUVRE museum” Laurence des CARS
• Could women associations really UNITE in France for Afghan women in 2021???? I doubt very much
• Polyvalent Julie DELPY (wikipedia)