The Cooperation Club in Beirut, a branch of the old world-wide association known as the Y.W.C.A., was founded in 1911. Among its first founders were the late Huda Doumit, and Mesdames Nasima Khouli, Ellen Saad, and Aminah Khoury Makdisi.

The association's first aim was to bring girls up on sound principles. Then, when Lebanon felt the effects of the industrial revolution and of modern developments, the scope of the work widened until it embraced "helping the girl toward mental, spiritual, and bodily growth, without any sectarian bias, and giving woman a social direction founded upon just principles and high ideals." The club branched into sev-eral committees whose business is to concern themselves with women out of work and to care for those of them who do work — morally, in matters of health, and materially.

And so it was that, from 1920 onward, there took shape the Munjidat corps, the night schools for women workers in the factories, the summer camps, the employment bureaus, and the advocacy for raising the level of public health.

Alongside this, the club has per-formed praiseworthy social services which have brought the

country progress. Among them: it studied the conditions of woman at work; it represented the country at