Overview

Quota International is a non-profit organization empowering women, children, the deaf, hard-of-hearing, and speech-impaired in local communities around the world. In April 2017, Quota International of Trinidad & Tobago was established. This is the first club established in the English speaking Caribbean to join Quota International. The new board of directors was installed during the annual Region 10 meeting which was held at the Hyatt Regency, Trinidad & Tobago. More than 5,000 Quotarians - women, men, and youth - are Volunteers in Action, known for their outstanding enthusiasm and service in 260 communities in 13 countries: Aruba, Australia, Canada, Curaçao, Fiji, India, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, St. Eustatius, Suriname, and the United States. Quota International represents the needs of the local communities in which it operates. The work of Quotarians focuses on five (5) key areas i.e. (1) advocating to empower women (2) ensuring child development (3) funding deaf resources (4) inspiring future leaders and (5) delivering world service in 264 communities around the world. The history of Quota can be traced back to when the idea for Quota International was first sparked by Wanda Frey Joiner who attended a Christmas “ladies night” party hosted by the Kiwanis Club of Buffalo, New York. Wanting to form a similar organization for women to join, a few weeks later, Joiner and four businesswomen, Florence M. Smith, Alice C. Sauers, Ora G. Cole,and Jean Ware Redpath, signed incorporation documents forming Quota Club International on 6 February 1919, one year before the United States passed the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote and less than one month after the end of World War I. Because many women had joined the workforce and organized campaigns to support the troops, when the war was over, women wanted more employment and empowerment opportunities. Their enthusiasm propelled the organization to become the first international women-only service organization in 1925. Quota head office is in Washington DC, United states. To learn more about Quota’s history and the work it is doing around the world to advance its mission visit https://www.quotainternational.org/ For more information on Quota International Trinidad & Tobago send an email to quotatrinidad@gmail.com . Quota...do a little, change a lot