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SOSA, CCE-EFM, Tragen, and Dorman Award Winners Panel Discussion

  Tuesday, October 19 10:00-11:30 a.m. Eastern Time Via Zoom Webinar   We hope you will join us to meet many of the fascinating and impressive 2021 winners of the Secretary of State Award for Outstanding Volunteerism abroad (SOSA) and the Eleanor Dodson Tragen, CCE-EFM (Champions of Career Enhancement for EFMs), and Dorman Awards.   […]

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FBS Outing to the Carlyle

The AAFSW Foreign-born spouses group organized the first in-person tour after the pandemic.  Special thanks to all 16 EFMs that participated in visiting the Carlyle, a historic mansion in Old town Alexandria. During the outing, we learned about the Carlyle family and their traditions. Followed we took the city trolley that took us to Via […]

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Martine’s Must-Reads for October 2021

       1 –   How to Avoid a Clarity Disaster By Bill Gates Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to […]

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Letter from the President October 2021

Happy October!  It’s starting to feel like fall in the DC area. How is the weather where you are? I’m excited to share with our members the outcomes of two initiatives. First, I want to thank everyone who filled out a survey in May.  AAFSW received over 400 complete surveys. Over the summer, Ann La Porta, […]

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Foreign Affairs Community Survey Report

In May of 2021 the AAFSW Forum Committee sent out a survey to members of the foreign affairs community designed to determine what is important to members of the community we serve. The survey invited all active and retired members of the community plus adult family members and members of household from all agencies including […]

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Guided Tour of the Dia De Muertos Altar, Nov. 9 at the Mexican Cultural Institute

AAFSW cordially invites you on Tuesday, November 9 at 11:.00 am, to a fascinating exhibition at the Mexican Cultural Institute’s annual Day of the Dead Altar One of Mexico’s most famous events. This well-known community event features an intricate altar.  In 2003, UNESCO proclaimed Mexico’s “Indigenous festivity dedicated to the dead” as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of […]