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Oklahoma City, OK — International Women’s Day on March 8 will be commemorated in a festive and meaningful way, when women from around the United States will simultaneously host parties to raise funds to benefit marginalized women in developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. It is hoped that the parties will collectively raise $30,000. One of the nearly 100 parties will be hosted by the Social Justice Committee of the First Unitarian Church of Oklahoma City on Saturday, March 5, 2005 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the First Unitarian Church of Oklahoma City, 600 NW 13th Street.

Party sponsors are members of WOW! (Work of Women), a global membership organization within World Neighbors, a not-for-profit community development organization working in partnership with the rural poor in hundreds of villages in countries as geographically diverse as Kenya, Guatemala, Nepal, Burkina Faso, India and Indonesia. More than half of World Neighbors� beneficiaries are women.

“The party concept provides our members, no matter where they live, with a tangible, hands-on way to get involved and make a difference in the lives of women in developing countries, who want the same things for themselves and their families as we in the United States seek,” said Wariko Kabuga Waita, WOW! coordinator.

World Neighbors, founded in 1951, currently operates 48 programs in 16 countries that reach more than 250,000 direct participants and more than 1.3 million beneficiaries who live in some of the poorest villages on the planet.

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Teresa Rendon, First Unitarian Church
Aren1450@aol.com
405-840-1875

Erin Engelke, World Neighbors
Communications & Marketing Coordinator
eengelke@wn.org
405-752-9700