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Honouring Women Leaders

‘Honouring Women Leaders’ was established to honour, on an on-going basis, exceptional and exemplary leaders in the YWCA movement who have made a difference in their community.

Judith Blake: a woman who thought globally and acted locally

The late Judith Blake always saw the YWCA as a membership movement which could enrich the lives of women and girls and at the heart of it all, Christian faith and values.

Emily Lee Fong - a woman leader across cultures

A survivor of the 1906 earthquake, Emily Lee Fong was an original member of the Chinese YWCA Board of Directors in the 1920s.