{"id":12398,"date":"2018-03-05T15:57:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T15:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/?p=12398"},"modified":"2025-01-09T19:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T19:31:13","slug":"world-federations-commitment-to-the-welfare-of-girl-children-and-young-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/2018\/03\/05\/world-federations-commitment-to-the-welfare-of-girl-children-and-young-women\/","title":{"rendered":"World Federation&#8217;s commitment to the welfare of girl children and young women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Federation\u2019s \u00a0long-standing commitment to the welfare of girl children and young women has found new expression with the introduction of the\u00a0<strong>Helen Kim Memorial Scholarship<\/strong>\u00a0which offers\u00a0<strong>Leadership Development Training for Young Women<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Every five years, two young women (18\u201330 years old) from each of the World Federation Areas are given the opportunity to attend the World Federation World Assembly, and to take part in a Leadership Development Training Program where they will learn leadership skills and participate in building relationships and community with other young women, the Executive Committee, and the World Federation\u2019s United Nations representatives.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pictured above are some of the Helen Kim scholars for the quinquennium 2016-2021, giving a presentation at the 2016 World Assembly in Houston, Texas<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This Program is named in honour of Helen Kim, a young Korean woman who envisioned a world sisterhood of women working together \u2018to promote peace and better conditions in the whole world\u2019. The Scholarship programme aims to inspire young women to imagine and work towards a world where there is hope for the hopeless, security for the insecure, sufficient for the impoverished, freedom for the oppressed, and a voice for the voiceless.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Helen-Kim.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12399\" src=\"http:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Helen-Kim-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Helen-Kim-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Helen-Kim.jpg 322w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Above: Helen Kim<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Below: current Helen Kim Scholars for the Britain and Ireland Area:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Wanda Hogan (Ireland) and Rachel Allison (Britain)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wh2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12406\" src=\"http:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wh2-116x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wh2-116x300.jpg 116w, https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wh2.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 116px) 100vw, 116px\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/image-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10379\" src=\"http:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/image-1-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Rachel Allison\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/image-1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/image-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/image-1-600x800.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You will find more information about the Helen Kim Memorial Scholarship Programme<br \/>\non the <a href=\"http:\/\/wfmucw.org\/about\/helen-kim-memorial-scholarship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Federation website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Federation\u2019s \u00a0long-standing commitment to the welfare of girl children and young women has found new expression with the introduction of the\u00a0Helen Kim Memorial Scholarship\u00a0which offers\u00a0Leadership Development Training for Young Women. Every five years, two young women (18\u201330 years old) from each of the World Federation Areas are given the opportunity to attend the World Federation World Assembly, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9112,"featured_media":12400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[571,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfmucw-hkms","category-wfmucw"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 06:07:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}