Posted on 01/07/2011 4:10:18 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
The YWCA, which was set up in 1855 to help young women going to London for the first time, has now become "Platform 51".
The name was chosen because 51 per cent of people are female and "women use us as a platform for having their say and for helping them into the next stage of their lives".
The rebranding is likely to raise questions among the charity's donors, many of whom give to it because of the organisation's Christian links.
However, officials at the World YWCA headquarters in Geneva told the Daily Mail that none of the 124 branches in other countries intended to follow suit.
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The YWCA is not the first body to move away from Christian associations in its name. In 2009, the chairman of Churches Action for the Homeless said it needed to start looking for a new name because the religious connotations made it harder to get grants.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
How predictable...and predicted.
RE: The Communist infiltrators of the 1950’s in the ‘Y’ finally achieved one of their goals.
Well, they need not have changed their acronym, just make the ‘C’ mean Communist and it would solve the problem of having to change their logo.
your right. what they “are” speaks volumes.....
Prolly reflecting the alien membership.
How does that dance go?
Yeah, that's right.
I didn't think of that - but the commies in the *new* YWCA should have.
New Stationary costs a lot to print and now the commies will be supporting a bunch of 'capitalist pigs' and their 'bourgeoisie families'.(/s)
(I really don't like joking about communists as there's nothing funny about them. I hate the insidious bastards.)
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