Clyde River Lecture this Saturday: Women’s Institute – A living legacy

Join us for our third and final history lecture for this season on Saturday afternoon at 1:30. Clyde River has had a very active Women’s Institute since 1950. Let’s learn and celebrate what they and other rural WIs have achieved in strengthening their communities. Lectures take place at Riverview Community Centre, 718 Clyde River Road, Clyde River.

Marie Kenny – “Women’s Institute – A living legacy” – February 25th, 1:30 p.m.

Marie Kenny

Marie Kenny will present on the living legacy of the Women’s Institute movement that began in Canada over 125 years ago. From humble beginnings and a vision for women to become better educated in domestic science, this valued principal continues today empowering women to engage in issues that affect family, community and our world. This is the history of how one voice can ignite a spark and how in working together, a global difference can be achieved. The story began, the work continues and the impact is enormous.

Marie Kenny is an Islander, a wife, mother, grandmother, author, artist and pastor. Humanitarian work and community capacity building have involved much of Marie’s life at a local, national and international level. Growing up on a family farm and raising her family in a rural community, Marie has a deep appreciation for rural life and the Women’s Institute organization, which she feels truly is the backbone of rural communities across our nation.

Through both her professional and volunteer capacity, Marie has witnessed firsthand the injustice and discrimination faced by women. She has a passion for advocacy work and building strong partnerships, and enhancing community. Marie is currently Chair of the U.N. Committee, Associated Country Women of the World.

Marie has received numerous awards including the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal Committee, Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Woman of the Year, Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteerism, Senate of Canada Sesquicentennial Medal, Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal, and the Premier’s Award for Craft Education. In 2014, she was nominated as one of Canada’s most influential and aspiring women leaders.

 

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