Sentence examples for YWCA from inspiring English sources

YWCA programs are concerned with racial equality and harmony, public policy, health care, child care, employment and leadership training, physical education, and recreation.

The first YWCA was established in England in 1855, when two groups met to aid women: one group formed a Prayer Union to pray for women, and the other founded Christian homes for young women.

The early YWCA groups were influenced by the profound social effects of the Industrial Revolution on the lives of young women, especially in cities.

Local YWCA organizations are affiliated with their national associations, which in turn are members of the World YWCA, organized in London in 1894, with headquarters in Geneva.

Her involvement with the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) facilities for black women, dating to the 1930s, led to her advocacy of improved conditions for black domestic workers, to her election to national office within the YWCA, and to her involvement with that organization's integration policy.

Anxious about arriving late at night and not being able to check out a room before taking it, I had booked into the YWCA.

Jo Foxworth was honored by the YWCA in New York with the new Jo Foxworth Community Room at the YWCA-NYC Family Resource Center, 500 West 56th Street at 10th Avenue in Manhattan.

Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), nonsectarian Christian organization that aims "to advance the physical, social, intellectual, moral, and spiritual interests of young women".

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The issues around access — getting aid to the communities that need it most — were also undeniable, but for Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, general secretary of the World YWCA, the dilemma wasn't how to get aid to girls, but how much aid was getting to girls".

The review also included a poll of the public conducted last week and the results of 10 focus groups by the charity formerly known as the Young Women's Christian Association England and Wales YWCAandand currently named Platform 51.