As we say goodbye to 2022 and hello to 2023, we hope this message finds you safe and well. We are so close to our goal of 10,000 signatures to ensure the Rights of Widows are Advanced in the United States and Worldwide.

Please, continue to share and sign so we reach our goal by the end of 2022. It matters. We have good news on item #9: 

9) Recognize International Widows' Day June 23 to coincide with the United Nations https://www.un.org/en/observances/widows-day was sponsored by NJ Senator Gordon Johnson - Bill SJR92/ AJR174 has been introduced to the Senate; specifically Senate Health,  Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee and Assembly of Women and Children Committee. We are hopeful in 2023 this will be passed and we can celebrate. https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/2022/SJR92

More Good News:

We'd like to congratulate and honor Global Fund for Widows Founder Ms. Heather Ibrahim-Leathers was awarded our Modern Widows Club 2022 Legacy Award in recognition of her service, virtue, nobility, humbleness, inspiration, compassion, fortitude and heroic leadership serving widows worldwide. We'll be presenting her with our crystal globe award in January 2023, you are all welcome to attend virtually as we honor her accomplishments together. Her expertise in created this petition was made possible with her vast knowledge and dedication to advance widows rights while building solutions for economic empowerment to the most financially challenged widows facing the epidemic of widowhood.

Both Modern Widows Club and Global Fund for Widows have seen alarming increases in widows needs globally post-pandemic losses, the invasion in Ukraine and other conflicts globally. Widows suffer when the world is not at peace. Continuing to delay mainstreaming in the Women, Peace and Security Agenda only prevents us, as a global community, from achieving timely, lasting peace and needed support for widows. The widow crisis is larger now than before this petition started a year ago. 

Invitation:

Global Fund for Widows invites you to their 2023 Global Widowhood Summit - Conversation - Action - Change on February 1 at 6am NY/ 11am London/ 2pm Nairobi/ 4:30pm India. It will convene many organizations working to empower widows and female heads of households around the world. You are welcome to register. 

Thank you for supporting our petition and all it stands for in helping raise awareness of widows needs and rights. We continue to make every effort forward to ensure this cause is prioritized. WE appreciate your vote of confidence and your on-going support. Every one of you is cherished. 

If you are so inclined (we hope you are), please consider giving a year end tax-deductible contribution to each of our nonprofit organizations, Modern Widows Club and Global Fund for Widows. It would be greatly appreciated as we forge onward with advancing extraordinary widow support, leadership and advocacy. We are passionate about empowering widows worldwide!

Sincerely, 

Carolyn Moor 

Founder Modern Widows Club 

and

Heather Ibrahim-Leathers

Founder Global Fund for Widows