Since founding in 1958, AIWC has given regularly donations to various charities and organizations. Here are some projects the Club has supported.
Au Coeur des Grottes: Financial contribution to charities that help women, children and elderly Au Coeur des Grottes: a half-way home for battered women and their children.
Friends of India: A fund that focuses on helping Indian women support themselves through education and vocational training, offering school facilities and drinking water.
Hope: An Ethiopian charity which provided schooling and meals to children.
AGIS (Association Genevoise pour l’Ínsertion Sociale): A Geneva organization which helps integrate disabled children and adults, especially immigrants.
Cultural tribute
Museum d’Histoire Naturelle (Museum of Natural History): Together with the University of Salt Lake City, U.S.A., AIWC donated a skeleton of a Camptosaurus (11 meters tall) and the head of an Allosaurus (terrible lizard).
Community homage
* AIWC initiated a Chauffeurs Benevoles service driving elderly to community centre for Red Cross, reading to blind people, and helping psychiatric patients with activities.
* AIWC donated minibus to Geneva city to transport elderly and disabled people.
* The Club planted a tree in Parc Alfred Bertrand on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the Swiss Confederation.
Baby Quilt Project
To mark our 50th anniversary, we are offering a small quilt to each premature baby born in the Hôpital Universitaire de Genève, (HUG). We are a group of women who have a passion for sewing, quilting and designing. We hold regular workshops and free quilting lessons and welcome everyone to join us.
Unable to come in, unable to sew, and you still want to help? You can sponsor a quilt or part of a quilt! The cost is 40 CHF per quilt. For more information, please contact our Welcome Desk or our email address:
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