Upcoming Events
Afternoon Tea with
Lola Grace
Tuesday 21 February
14:00 – 16:00
In 2005, AIWC member Lola Nashashibi Grace founded the Middle East Children’s Institute (MECI) to develop and implement innovative approaches to conflict resolution and economic development by addressing the needs of women and children in the Middle East who are victims of war. MECI offers transforming , comprehensive community development programs that deliver positive change and hope to children and women crippled by despair. MECI is one of the charities that AIWC has elected to support in the 2011/12 club year.
Lola will join us on 21 February to present MECI’s projects and discuss the events and circumstances that moved her to form this organisation. After her presentation we shall be serving a traditional afternoon tea and there will be an opportunity to chat with Lola informally.
Lola Grace was born of Middle Eastern parents and spent her early years in South America. She attended Stanford University where she received an M.B.A., a B.A. in Economics, and an M.A. from the Food Research Institute in developmental and agricultural economics.
She had a successful career in investment banking, working for Morgan Stanley, First Boston and Sterling Grace Capital Management in New York. She relocated to Switzerland with her husband and five children a few years ago.
Lola is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and on the Advisory Council to the U.S. and Foreign Policy and Women Project. In 2005, she received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor Award.
Her other philanthropic interests include education and medical and biological research. She is currently Honorary Trustee of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a genetic research institution in cancer and neurobiology. She is also a member of the Board of Advisors of the FSI Stanford Institute of International Studies and an advisor to the Center of Creative Problem Solving and Mathematics at SUNY Old Westbury.
Event Location:
AIWC Clubhouse
The American International Women's Club of Lausanne
La Maison de la Femme - the top floor (elevator available)
Avenue Eglantine 6
1006 Lausanne
Map to Clubhouse
Cost
Members: CHF15, Non-Members: CHF20
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Register by Friday 10 Feburary
Middle Eastern Evening
Saturday 24 March,
All Saints Church Hall Vevey
19:30 – 22:30
Following on from the highly successful African event in 2011, we woudld like to invite you to join us for an evening of fun, full of Eastern promise. There will be a Mezze table with delicious Middle Eastern specialities, entertainment, an Eastern themed table quiz and a raffle.
Guests welcome. Do be sure to put the date in your diary, you don’t want to miss this!
All profits to support our club charities – Middle East Children’s Institute and SOS Futur Mamans
Event Location:
All Saints Church Hall
Vevey
Suggested Entry Donation: CHF 40
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Register by Wednesday 14 March
* Please note our cancellation policy is in place. if you fail to attend a meeting for which you have registered and have not cancelled by this date, you will be charged for yourself and/or your guest.
Further questions about an event?
Email:
programs@aiwc-lausanne
Last page update : Mon, 23-jan-12 17:10