[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 195 (Friday, November 5, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1213]
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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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