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The Berlin Women's Association 1945 e.V. (Berliner Frauenbund 1945 e.V., BFB) was founded by the historian Mrs. Agnes Zahn-Harnack, directly after the Second Word War. The "Berlin Women's Association" (BFB) is a re-founding of the old-established "German Women's Associations (Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine), which stopped their work when the German Nazi government took over in 1933. The board of the association decided to close down to avoid discrimination of its Jewish members, because the Nazis wanted to exclude them from the "German Women's Association". Another reason for stopping their work was, that the government forced them to include Nazi female politicians in the organisation.
Since its re-founding in 1945 the "Berlin Women's Association" (BFB) has been very active in political work. They have created a "peace law" and they have fought for the right to do peace service instead of military service. Influenced by the new feminist women's movement, the BFB founded several projects for women at the beginning of the 1980's. The aim was to give women better chances for a professional career, for a life of their own, and for self-fulfillment.
The BFB founded the FrauenComputerZentrumBerlin (women's computer centre) to prepare women for the technological future. KOBRA, a career and guidance centre for women, that offer one-year courses "Mehr Frauen in die öffentliche Verant-wortung", with the aim of bringing more women into public responsible positions in institutions, associations and so on. Also the BFB founded the Großelterndienst, a grandparents service for single mothers. All these projects are working successfully nowadays. Beside the project work, the BFB organises meetings and workshops to discuss politically relevant questions from the women's point of view. For example national laws, European politics, chances in the labour market, founding of enterprises, etc.
The BFB is active: networking lobbying for women fighting against racism and social exclusion
Address: Berliner Frauenbund 1945 e.V. Ansbacher Straße 63 D-10777Berlin Gudrun Laufer ca.gu@t-online.de Ebba Christiansen ebba.christiansen@t-online.de
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