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The Hegg Hoffet Fund for Displaced Women Graduates
Purpose
The Hegg Hoffet Fund for Displaced Women Graduates deals with applications for assistance from graduate women (in special cases tertiary women students) who have been displaced as a result of war, political upheaval or other serious emergencies, and makes short term grants for refresher courses for re-entry into the candidates’ professional fields, and courses for integration into new countries. In case of serious natural disasters, national federations and associations may apply for short-term grants on behalf of university women (women students), who suffered hardship due to the disaster, and who wish to continue their work or studies.
Graduate women refugees generally need moral support as well in order to learn to live in a different country. This support is given by national and local groups of university women from all over the world.
History
The Fund was established in 1936 as the IFUW Emergency Fund (later called the Relief Fund) to help university women who had been deprived of the right to work, and in many cases, the right to live in their native countries. Assistance to graduate women on arrival in a new country is still the activity of the Fund today.
In honour of many years of service given by long term convener Mme Blanche Hegg Hoffet of Switzerland, who was particularly responsible for raising money and distributing assistance during and after the Second World War, the Fund adopted her name in 1968.
Remember! The work of the Hegg-Hoffet Fund cannot be done without the generous help and support of IFUW members every year!
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