WHO IS ZONTA ABC?

Chartered locally on 4/25/52, the Zonta Club of Akron-Barberton-Cuyahoga Falls (Zonta ABC) has a history of 53 years of service, both to the community and to worldwide projects. Besides financial support of Zonta's international projects, our local fund-raising efforts support the Akron Harvest Home for women and children (part of the Haven of Rest Ministries) plus Victim Assistance. We also fund several "Verna Trushel Displaced Homemaker Scholarships" at the University of Akron. We hold our annual Style Show to raise funds for these local projects! This year's Style Show luncheon was held on Saturday, March 19, 2005 at Tangier Restaurant in Akron!! We netted $7000 for our charities.


In the past couple of years, Zonta ABC also joined other Area 3 Zonta Clubs in raising funds for the Fistula Hospital in Addis Abbaba, Ethiopia which for over 3 decades has helped 25,000 young girls who have suffered childbirth damage causing fistula incontinence (urinary or fecal.) For more information, go to: www.fistulafoundation.org/hospital/ or www.fistulatrust.org/Main/Hospital.html


Zonta ABC was one of 5 clubs in the world (just one of 2 in the U.S.) for 2002 which received a $20,000 grant to implement a local ZISVAW project to teach violence prevention in the local Akron school system. The project was "Working It Out: Tools for Everyday Peacemakers." This is a conflict management program that was created as a joint project of Lions Clubs International and Quest International in partnership with the National Association of Elementary Principals. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation partially funded the
creation of the program materials.


Zonta ABC worked with "Because He Cares" locally to implement the $20,000 grant over a two year period, with the first pilot school completed during spring 2002 at Crosby Elementary School in Akron, followed by an abbreviated summer semester. The fall/winter emester concluded on in March 2003 again at Crosby School. A new spring 2003 semester was conducted at Findley Elementary School. The 003-04 fall/winter semesters were completed at Rankin and Leggett Elementary in March 2004. Each program was presented in ten essions. These sessions are followed by four sessions of drama preparation and rehearsal, which then culminated in a program presented to Zonta members, parents, teachers, and peers at the school or program site.