Video : Elisa Campos Invitation For The Peace Campaign.

Business  and Professional Women Nakuru, Kenya (BPW Kenya) was established in Nakuru, Kenya, in 2010 as a non political and  non profit making club, meeting regularly at the Nakuru Rift Valley Sports Club.
In June 2011 the BPW Kenya  decided that their first major club project should be to set up a  Medical Camp weekend   to support an under-privileged Kenyan community. The club decided to provide a Medical camp in Central Baringo of the Rift Valley Province.  The purpose was to provide free medical screening,   pharmaceutical and dental care, wheel chairs,  as well as distributing food , shoes, mosquito nets and clothing to the local community.

Read the complete Report of the Medical Camp of BPW Nigeria or the short version

Some volunteers and club members resting at closing the camp at 6 pm.

Patients awaiting doctors examinations.

Children queing for treatment.

Elisa Guerra, chair of Peace and Intercultural Understanding Task Force of BPW International

OBJECTIVE

• Create forms of expression through different flowers, all together, demonstrate cooperation and integration among different races, cultures, beliefs and behavior of different women forming BPW International.
• Stimulate at official local, national and international BPWs meetings, activities for peace and intercultural understanding.
• Strengthen BPW International image, an entity with a pillar of true and universal peace.

MISSION

• Encourage BPW ‘s women around the world to expand their ideas and visions, accepting different cultures.
• Encourage  them to open heart and mind, free from prejudices, in favor of a life with more cooperation and intercultural understanding.

ACTION

Each BPW affiliate will develop its own flower – either real flowers, painting, decorative material, pictures, mosaic, puzzle etc.
SIZE - minimum size =  10cm  x 10cm, maximum size =  20cm x 20cm

Lena Madesin Phillips’ phrase - motive for his campaign:
"Let us build together and see what we can do"
should  accompany the flower, written in the language of each BPW affiliate.

A picture of these flowers  - with the phrase – should be emailed  to: bpwbrasil09@gmail.com | copying:  elisaguerra.paz@gmail.com | dulce@work.com.br | elisabetefreitas@uol.com.br

PDF Document

On September 21^st - International Day for Peace created by the UN, you can see this large panel of flowers on www.bpw-international.org.

Each  BPW affiliate must take her original flower design  to BPW International Congress in 2011, in Helsinki.

In this opportunity, flowers of all BPW affiliates worldwilde will be gathered together  by creating a large panel  representing “ Peace and Intercultural Understanding”.

Let's work together for peace!

Thank you in advance.

Works: “Collaborator’s Young Men-BPW” and “BPW-Girls”

The main objective for both Works is to stimulate the development and participation of young men and girls, fortifying and adding value to the goals of BPW-International. One of this goals, which is the most important and necessary, is to reach “the discrimination elimination”. We believe that to reach this goal we have to include men and women, boy and girls, to extend around the world our ideals.

BPW Germany & BPW Nepal a Successful Joint Project  in Pokhara by BPW affiliates

Pokhara, a sub-metropolitan city, with close to 200,000 inhabitants, lies some 198 km west of the capital, Kathmandu. Pokhara lacks the capital‘s good infrastructure. As in other parts of Nepal, women have become victims to political and social upheaval. BPW Nepal has dedicated itself to developing and furthering the enormous untapped potential of women.

BPW Nigeria

Costus Spectabilis

Hausa: “Mu hada hanu tare mu gan yadda za mu yi”.

Igbo: “Ka nyi jiko aka onu mara ike oga emere anyi”.

Yoruba: “Eje ki a  jumo se ka ri ohun ti a le se.”

BPW Korea

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BPW Zambia Flower: Sun Flower

The meaning:

The flower is being anchored in the bosom of the Mighty Victoria Falls, a Natural Wonder of the World.  Its natural nature of its kind is symbolizing the peace that you feel when you stand overlooking the Falls.  It’s a wonder in that no mankind can do any harm to it.  It is beyond imagination that all you feel is peace of mind.  BPW Zambia is trying to share that if this feeling can be shared by all members and in turn by the whole world, we can all live in harmony and make the difference to the world.

 The Sun flower, is symbolizing the sunshine that characterizes the warmth of the people of Zambia and the wonderful weather,  when shared by all, it can have a ripple effect to the world warm people.

 The spackle is the smiling and happy people of the members of BPW Zambia, whom by being members of BPW have the privilege and the opportunity of networking with a smile.

BPW Thailand

BPW Turkey

BPW Panama

BPW Argentina

BPW Canada

BPW Cambodia

BPW Cyprus

BPW Brazil

BPW France

“Let us build together and see what we can make”

Action plan