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2 itemsTopic: Gerwani organisation ✕Place: East Java ✕Year: 1953 ✕
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GA-00847 1953-05-06 De Waarheid rel A

Vooruitgang vrouwenbeweging op Oost-Java

Progress of the women's movement in East Java: Gerwis growth figures

De Waarheid, 6 May 1953, p. 5: dispatch citing two Gerwis women, Su... and Warinah, on the growth of Gerwis in East Java: districts up from 19 (early 1952) to 37, 120 branches plus 50 forming, 7,016 members, mainly women workers, peasants and self-employed. Illiteracy is the main obstacle, countered by courses attended

GA-00854 1953-12-09 De Waarheid rel A

Toenemende activiteit van de Indonesische vrouwenbeweging

Growing activity of the Indonesian women's movement: Malang conference figures

De Waarheid, 9 Dec 1953, p. 5: Malang dispatch on a Gerwis conference reviewing East Java work. In six months membership rose from 12,000 to 16,420 and branches from 37 to 49; literacy courses ran in 120 villages with 1,349 participants; 15 kindergartens (kleuterbewaarplaatsen) opened, holding almost 600 children daily