Sonja Davies

**Sonja Margaret Loveday Davies** ONZ JP (née Vile; 11 Nuwamba 1923 - 12 Yuni 2005) ta kasance 'yar kungiyar kwadago ta New Zealand, mai fafutukar zaman lafiya, memba ce ta majalisa. A ranar 6 ga watan Fabrairun 1987, Davies itace ta uku da aka girmama da kambin Order of New Zealand.

## Rayuwar farko
An haifi Sonja Vile a yankin Upper Hutt na Wallaceville a cikin 1923.  Mahaifiyarta Gwladys Ilma Vile ce, ma'aikaciyar jinya, kuma jikokin Ayuba Vile.

Sonja Vile ta sami bayanai game da waye mahaifinta Gerald Dempsey a lokacin tana da shekaru 20, amma ba ta taɓa yin wata hulɗa da shi ba. Tana da gidajen reno daban daban guda hudu kafin kakaninta  ya ɗauke ta, suka zauna a Oamaru da Woodville . Tana da shekara bakwai, ta koma wurin mahaifiyarta a Wellington don ta zauna tare da kanwarta da sabon ubanta. Iyalin sun ƙaura zuwa Dunedin, sannan Auckland, kuma, a cikin 1939, sun koma Wellington. A wannan lokacin, ita ma tana da ƙane. Jawabin da masu fafutuka Ormond Burton da Archibald Barrington suka yi sun ja hankalin lamirinta na zamantakewa amma sun haifar da tashin hankali da iyayenta, saboda haka ta bar gida tana da shekaru 16 tana tallafawa kanta ta hanyar aiki a kantin sayar da littattafai. 

Ta auri Lindsay Nathan a shekara ta 1941, kuma ta fara samun horo a matsayin ma'aikaciyar jinya. Ta yi juna biyu bayan da ta yi jima'i da wani sojan ruwa na Amurka kuma an haifi 'yarta Penny a 1944. Ba da daɗewa ba, an kwantar da Sonja a asibiti saboda tarin fuka.

## Nelson
Bayan ta saki Nathan, ta auri Charlie Davies a ƙarshen 1946, wanda ta san shi kafin yaƙin. A shekara mai zuwa an sallame ta daga asibiti, kuma ma'auratan suka koma karkara ta Nelson. A shekara ta 1953 sun koma cikin birni, inda ta zama mai aiki a siyasa a cikin kamfen don dakatar da rufe hanyar jirgin kasa. An zabe ta a Hukumar Asibitin Nelson a 1956, kuma a Majalisar Birnin Nelson a 1961.  A shekara ta 1963, an nada ta a matsayin mai shari'a na zaman lafiya. Daga baya ta koma Nelson don neman takarar Labour don kujerar Nelson a Zaben 1976, amma ba ta yi nasara ba, ta kammala fifiko na biyu ga mai sayar da kayan masarufi da kuma Nelson City Councillor Mel Courtney . 

## Kasancewa cikin ƙungiyoyi
Davies ta taimaka wajen kafa Majalisar Mata Masu Aiki, kuma a shekara ta 1974 ta zama mace ta farko da ta zama shugabar Tarayyar Kwadago.

## Kasancewa cikin ilimin yara
A ranar 14 ga Oktoba 1963 Davies, a matsayin shugaban kwamitin kula da yara na Nelson Day, ya shirya taron ma'aikatan cibiyar da manajoji wanda ya haifar da kafa kungiyar New Zealand Association of Childcare Centres. Manufar gabaɗaya ita ce samar da tallafi da horar da ma'aikata ga cibiyoyin don haɓaka ingancin kulawa da ilimi ga yara masu zuwa makaranta. Davies ya kuma yi imanin cewa Ƙungiyar ƙasa za ta kasance da tasiri wajen yin lobbying gwamnati za ta kuma taimaka wa cibiyoyin da za su yi lobbying ga gwamnati kan ka'idojin kula da yara masu zuwa.

## 'Yar majalisa

Davies ta zama 'yar majalisa a karkashin jam'iyyar Labour na garin Pencarrow a shekarar 1987 kuma tayi wa'adi biyu. A watan Nuwamba na shekara ta 1990 ne aka nada ta a matsayin mai magana da yawun Jam'iyyar Labour a kan Harkokin Mata ta hanyar jagoran Labour Mike Moore.  Ta yi ritaya a 1993 kuma Trevor Mallard ya maye gurbin ta.

A cikin 1990, Davies ta sami lambar yabo ta New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal,  kuma a cikin 1993 an ba ta lambar yabo ta Centennial Medal na New Zealand Suffrage.

Davies ta mutu a Wellington a shekara ta 2005.

## Kafofin watsa labarai

Tarihin rayuwarta, Bread and Roses: Her Story, ( ), an juya ta cikin fim a 1994.  Gaylene Preston ce ta ba da umarnin, an kuma kira fim din *Gurasa da Roses* . An buga kundi na biyu na tarihin kansa, Marching On ( ) a cikin shekara ta 1997. 

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## Manazarta

## Haɗin waje

* Sonya Davies a cikin 1986 (hoton)