Report on Welcome Clubs International Webinars

Regional Perpectives: Middle East, South America, and Europe

and journalist, shared her travels worldwide to areas neglected and overlooked by leaders and politicians.

The programs' success resulted from the collaboration of member clubs and the help of the Technology Team, all of whom devoted their time and talent to creating successful webinars.

Welcome Clubs International (WCI) has the honor to share its experience and accomplishments with our member club, the esteemed members of Welcome to Taipei.

In 2022 the collective endeavor of the WCI Executive Committee was instrumental in achieving our goals and in highlighting the diversity within our organization.

The three Regional Perspectives presented in February, April, and November of 2022 came from our Clubs in Lebanon, South America, and Europe. The speakers were Dr. Lina AbiRafeh, Dr. Mara Rubia Andre Alves de Lima, and Sonia Kennebeck.

Dr. AbiRafeh’s speech focused on the empowerment of women and gender equality. Dr. Mara Rubia shared her personal story and visit to the Amazon with the Rondon Project, an institution for sustainable development and equality for the underprivileged. Sonia Kennebeck, an award-winning documentary filmmaker

In addition, in no small way, our thanks go to the participants who registered in respectable numbers and expressed their overwhelming compliments and appreciation of the programs.

If anyone is interested, the recordings of all these programs are available on WCI's members' site at https://www.members.wciclubs.org/ meetings.

In conclusion, on behalf of the members of the WCI Executive Committee, we wish you and your families a happy and healthy Lunar Year of the Rabbit on January 22nd, 2023. As fable has it, the overconfident rabbit took a nap. When he woke up, the OX (whom he had mocked mercilessly) was sitting in the first place and had beaten him. We women will not take a nap; we will all work together with the support of the network of international friendship to reach our goal of empowering women and obtaining gender equality.