by SWOVA Team | Jun 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
by Lynda Laushway, Executive Director of SWOVA It’s a sunny afternoon in a beautiful garden. People are milling about or sitting and chatting. There are lovely canapes and sweet treats along with fruit punch being served. Neighbours and more distant friends keep...
by SWOVA Team | Jun 17, 2020 | Programs, SWOVA News, Youth programs
The days when etiquette encompassed topics such as who should open a door for who and how to set a table correctly, definitely predated the internet and social media. We live in a whole new world now where communication is instantaneous and anonymous. When we...
by SWOVA Team | Jun 3, 2020 | From the Headlines
With great sadness I write about the rape and murder of two girls in Northern India last week. Two cousins ages 14 and 15 went out to the fields in the night to relieve themselves because they have no toilet inside their house. They were brutally gang-raped by a group...