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CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF HISTORY OF TOLEDO CHAPTER ZONTA INTERNATIONAL
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HON. MARCY KAPTUR
of ohio
in the house of representatives
Friday, November 5, 2021
Ms. KAPTUR. Madam Speaker, I rise to recognize the Toledo Chapter of Zonta International. The members of the chapter are gathering on Saturday November 6, 2021 to celebrate this milestone event.
Two years after the formation of Zonta International, on November 25, 1921, Toledo women joined forces to form the Zonta Club of Toledo. Those early founders, leading professional women of the day, carried forth the organization's vision as a women's service organization that would advocate for policies ensuring gender equality, protect the rights of women and girls, reduce the incidents of violence against them, and empower women and girls to reach their full potential.
To that end, in its century of service the women of Zonta Club of Toledo have led the way in efforts to promote the development of women while providing planning, financial and volunteer support to numerous initiatives. Zonta has assisted the Area Office on Aging Kinship Navigator program, Bethany House shelter, YMCA Storer Camps and YWCA battered women's shelter, purchased HIV/AIDS test kits for Plan Parenthood, raised awareness regarding human trafficking and domestic violence, provided scholarship opportunities and offered volunteer support to a variety of services in our community and globally. Through one hundred years, the members of the Zonta Club of Toledo have continued to build the organization into one of excellence and inspiration.
Zonta's mission is to improve ``the legal, political, economic, educational, health and professional status of women through service and advocacy'' while ``working for the advancement of understanding, goodwill and peace through a global fellowship of Zonta members.'' As one of the oldest chapters, the Zonta Club of Toledo serves this mission well and its members truly reflect Zonta's efforts to promote
``justice and universal respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.''
Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel prize laureate and Pakistani activist, said ``When the whole world is silent even one voice becomes powerful.'' Throughout a century of service, the women of the Zonta Club of Toledo have united many and varied voices into one powerful voice and in the process are changing the world. Onward Zonta, for the next hundred years.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 195
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