Zug,21.11.2018

Plans for Diversity Zug organisation to be set up

Plans for Diversity Zug organisation to be set up
Zug,
to act on health, age, gender, ethnic, religious and many more issues
 
Seven women, including Marianne Aepli (on the left) and Liz Küng (on the right in the second photograph) are planning to set up a Diversity Zug organisation, its pre-launch planned for Wednesday 21 November in the main hall of the GIBZ training centre at number 100 Baarerstrasse in the city.
For over 13 years the Zug Women’s Education Interest Group*, made up of some 15 educational organisations, focused on promoting further education among women in the canton and acting as a networking platform. While it catered primarily for women, men were equally welcome to take part, indeed some events were co-organised by the Zug Men’s Organisation, now defunct.
Unfortunately, this women’s organisation* no longer exists, either, hence Aepli’s idea along with six others for this new Diversity Zug organisation. As the name implies, the idea is not to focus on one gender in particular, but to bring all sorts of people of differing ages, nationalities, religious affiliations and ethnic backgrounds together. “With different types of family structure, where the husband or male partner may not be the breadwinner, and with changing demographic trends influenced by migration and globalisation, society’s needs are changing,” she said.
At today’s pre-launch, lectures and discussions will be held with the Committee for General Further Information, which is financing the event, subsequently assessing everything and producing a report on it. Among those bodies invited, some 50 in all, are all sorts of social institutions, for example various authorities of the individual municipalities, the canton and the city of Zug, along with representatives of political parties, those involved in education, in an advisory capacity, too, not to mention representatives of companies and neighbourhood organisations; hence there is certainly no lack of interest. As mentioned, the organisation intends to set up projects relating to health, handicap, generational, gender, ethnic and religious issues, to mention just a few.
As Aepli further explained, once the response to this launch has been carefully analysed, a second meeting is to be held in January to see if enough interest is there to set up funding bodies. If there is, the Diversity Zug organisation will duly be set up.
Further details can be found on www.diversityzug.ch.