Photo: Tina Klose CC/PID 8/2015

Sister Cities Committee - Chris LeeCity Hall, Room 205200 E. Wells Street Milwaukee, WI 53202

Milwaukee Sister CitiesAdditional information can be obtained by contacting the Sister Cities Committee.

SISTER CITIES COMMIT TEE COMMON COUNCIL - CITY CLERK’S OFFICE

Phone (414) 286-2232Fax (414) 3456www.milwaukee.gov/sistercitiesEmail: clee@milwaukee.gov

Milwaukee Sister Cities

Bienvenida! W il lkommen!

Benvenuto! Welcome!

About MilwAukee’s sister Cities initiAtive

Milwaukee has officially affiliated with Sister Cities International, a program with more than 50 years of promoting people-to-people diplomacy. As a result, our city-to-city relationships, including former friendship cities and unofficial sister cities, are now moving forward.

The six Sister Cities relationships that Milwaukee is fostering are Zadar, Croatia; Medan, Indonesia; uMhlathuze, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa; Carora, Venezuela; Galway, Ireland and Morogoro, Tanzania. There may be many more to come as residents of the city, local officials and business people come to recognize the benefits of people-to-people diplomacy in an age of contested borders.

The city also has had a friendly relationship with Ningbo, China, which has included exchanges between the two cities.

Please visit www.milwaukee.gov/sistercities to find out more about establishing a Sister Cities relationship with the City of Milwaukee. the sister Cities CoMMittee

CHAIR Ald. Joe Davis, Sr. (Chair of the Common Council Community and Economic Development Committee)

MEMBERSTiffany Barta (representative of Commissioner of Health, Bevan Baker)Oscar Tovar (representative of Mayor Tom Barrett)Al Durtka (representative of the International Institute of Wisconsin)Charles Vang (public member, appointed by Common Council President Willie L. Hines, Jr.)

The City of Milwaukee currently enjoys six sister city relationships. These international partnerships promote cultural, educational and economic exchanges, which strengthen our understanding of the world in which we live and do business. - Ald. Joe Davis, Sr., Chair, Sister Cities Committee

Sister City Signing Ceremony with Zadar, Croatia, May 2015. A Croation music and dance group performed for the occasion, and Croatia’s Consul General, Dr. Jelena Grčić Polić, delivered brief remarks to those assembled.

Each year, dignitaries and guests from Galway, Ireland take part in Milwaukee’s Irish Fest, with a visit to City Hall, and are hosted by Alderman Michael Murphy and members of the Common Council.

At the Medan, Indonesia Sister City Signing Ceremony in October 2014, smiles and gifts were exchanged, and ceremonial drapes presented.