Goals for the Next Three Years:areas of focus

Our commitment is to cherish the foundation of WFWP and build on it to achieve even greater heights.

The next phase and level of WFWP is now also under the spiritual leadership of the Founder's daughter, Rev. In Jin Moon, and we will be focusing on four major areas:

1) Human Rights, Women's Rights

2) Marriage, Family, Values Education

3) Bridge of Peace (Reconciliation and Healing of Relationships)

4) Women of Faith

During these next three years we want to be practical and relevant to our families and communities here in the United States as we also continue supporting WFWP, International.

Most of all we encourage young women toshare in the great vision and cause of WFWPand bring your energy, talents and gifts as well as professionalism to the table.

CURRENT AREAS OF INVOLVEMENT

Human Rights - Women's Dignity

In 2010, WFWP adopted the focus theme of Human Rights and Women’s Dignity, beginning with the current situation in Japan. Today, in Japan, men and women are being kidnapped and subjected to forced conversions because of their chosen faiths. This work is being done in the name of the family, and therefore is going unpunished. This situation in Japan is crying out for our attention, in order to facilitate its resolution. In these pages, you will find further information and a history of what has been going on as well as suggestions and channels for you to get involved in bringing about a solution.

Marriage and Family

The Marriage and Family Initiative seeks to strengthen, uplift and celebrate the institution of marriage and family, through both education and collaboration. This initiative recognizes that when marriage and family is in decline, there will be a greater incidence of behavioral and social problems. In response, the Marriage and Family Initiative offers a variety of seminars and workshops, which offer practical, research-based relationship skills to people of all ages.

Bridge of Peace Ceremony

In 1994, the "International Women's Friendship Conferences" brought together more than 169,000 Japanese women to Korea as ambassadors for peace and good will between the two historical enemies. A profoundly healing "Bridge of Peace Ceremony" was introduced as a way to create "sister-pairs" between the women. In 1995 and 1996, more than 20,000 pairs of women from Japan and the US came together to participate in 129 "International Friendship Conferences" in the US. Commemorating the 50th Anniversaryof the end of World War II, these conferences successfully introduced the Bridge of Peace Ceremony to Americans. Using a real bridge, this ceremony brings elements of sincere repentance for wrongs in the past, together with the sincere desire to create a new sisterhood relationship, centered on heart.

Women of Spirituality and Healing

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OTHER AREAS OF INVOLVEMENT

Haiti Relief Project

Beginning in the summer of 2008, WFWP, USA volunteers went to Haiti to participate in service projects, along with volunteers from the International Relief Friendship Foundation (IRFF). That year, they painted a high school in Port-au-Prince and helped a medical project in Cap-Haitian. In the summer of 2009, they helped with a tree planting project in a rural area, as well as with medical assistance activities.

Interracial Sisterhood Project

The Interracial Sisterhood Project (ISP) holds a strong belief that women have a vital role to play as leaders and peacemakers to change the painful history of destructive racialdisharmony by actively leading their families and communities to transcend racial lines.

In 1996, The ISP grew out of the desire to expand the sisterhood experience to benefitwomen who represent the many different racial backgrounds in America. Using WFWP,USA's signature project, the "Bridge of Peace Ceremony", more than forty ISP programs have been held around the country over the past eight years. In July of 1996, the ISP was honored in its selection as a "Promising Practice", by the administration of President Clinton, and was included in the President's Initiative on Race, "One America in the 21st Century."

NGO Networking

WFWPI is an "NGO in general consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations", having first received this designation in 1997. Leaders, members, staff, and guests of WFWP, USA benefit from this affiliation through networking with like-minded NGOs at UN briefings, programs, and conferences. WFWP, USA has worked closely with WFWPI to organize forums at the United Nations on the topics of the Eradication of Poverty, as well as the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. WFWP, USA works closely with the United Nations Association in various parts of the country,with WFWP leaders serving on several of their governing boards.

Women of Faith Project

The Women of Faith Project was established in the summer of 2001, to bring women of different faith backgrounds together for the purpose of greater understanding and respect. Women are endowed with those qualities that enable them to go beyond the boundaries and barriers that have traditionally divided the human family. With an open heart, empathy, and sensitivity, women are uniquely qualified to bridge differences. Women are provided the opportunity to explore the faiths of others through testimonies, through the sharing of similar passages from different sacred texts, as well as through the moving experience of sisterhood, by participating in the Bridge of Peace Ceremony.

Benefits for the Schools of Africa

Since 2001, WFWP, USA has been financially supporting schools that were established, and developed, in Africa since 1994 by her parent organization, WFWP, International. Through the years, WFWP, USA has supported schools located in Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, and Uganda. WFWP, USA district and state chapters have held benefits to raise funds to help maintain, as well as expand, these schools. Types of benefits have included: concerts, a fashion show, dinner programs, afternoon teas, and raffles. Approximately $185,000 has been raised over the past six years.

Women's Middle East Peace Initiative

In January of 2004, WFWP, USA established the "Women's Middle East Peace Initiative" (WMEPI), understanding the importance of that area in history, as well as in current affairs. A Declaration for Peace was drafted. WFWP, USA co-sponsored the "Women of Peace" program, in May of 2004, which brought 526 women from 41 nations together in Israel. During the annual WFWPI leaders workshop held in Austria in September 2004, a decision was made to collect one million signatures worldwide for the Declaration for Peace. This campaign aimed to turn the minds and hearts of women throughout the world to focus their support on the Middle East. At the campaign's end in December 2006, over 10,800,000 signatures for peace had been collected.

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