By Stacy Dry Lara | GWI Executive Director
Did you know that the Hegg-Hoffet Fund has been instrumental in providing help to refugee and displaced graduate women for over 82 years? The Hegg Hoffet Fund was established in 1936 as the International Federation of University Women (now Graduate Women International) Emergency Fund to help women at the graduate level and above who had been deprived of the right to work, and in many cases, the right to live in their native countries. Arriving in a new country, most face complex challenges to integration, among them language difficulties, unemployment, rejection of foreign qualifications and the need for retraining. Later called the Relief Fund, it took the name of Madame Blanche Hegg Hoffet (1894-1978) in 1968, to honour her many years of service during and after the Second World War.
Mme Hegg Hoffet was particularly responsible for raising money and distributing assistance in that difficult period and accomplished her mission with great passion and commitment, travelling regularly to Germany to meet with refugees as soon as the war ended.
Recently, the GWI Hegg Hoffet programme supported a SiSwati programme for a very deserving and fellow woman graduate. Support for such classes embodies the very mission of the GWI Hegg Hoffet program and we are ever-grateful to our donors.
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