Opportunity to attend Young Women's Professional Leadership and Mentoring Training Program (urgent)
Noni Sproule
From: IWSA <wo...@speakout.org.au>
Date: Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:29 AM
Subject: [pamelas-list] CALD Young Women's Professional Leadership and Mentoring Training Program
To: IW...@mail35.syd.optusnet.com.au
NIRWA (Network (national) of Immigrant and Refugee Women of Australia) and the Immigrant Women’s Speakout Association will run a CALD (Culturally and Linguistically Diverse) Young Women’s Professional Leadership and Mentoring Training Program in New South Wales to develop and strengthen the advocacy voice of young immigrant and refugee women in Australia. This program is open for any overseas or Australian-born young woman 18 – 30 years of age with a linguistic and/or cultural background other than Australian of English speaking background.
Please see the attached information and application form.
Send the completed application by e-mail: office....@nirwa.org.au
Or fax: 02 9635 8176
What: CALD Young Women’s Professional Leadership and Mentoring Training Program
The goal of this program is to provide opportunities for young immigrant and refugee women to develop leadership and advocacy skills to enable them to participate at the local, state and national level.
When: 29th June (Friday) until 1st July 2012 (Sunday) (3 consecutive days)
Where: Sydney, NSW (location to be announced)
For general enquiries
Please contact the Canberra Office on (02) 6257 1002 or
email Sela Taufa (Program Manager) on sela....@nirwa.org.au
or Nunia Tuinukuafe (Office Administrator) on office....@nirwa.org.au.
Alternatively contact Jane Brock or Alex Tindick on wo...@speakout.org.au.
The NIRWA Young Women’s Professional Leadership and Mentoring Training Program will select up to 15 young women to participate in the program.
Following the workshop, the selected young women will be encouraged to participate in a range of exciting policy and leadership projects in Australia. These will be determined according to the participants interests, as well as the current political climate. All projects will focus on issues pertinent to immigrant and refugee women living within Australia.
These young women will work with female mentors, who will guide them through the process and provide them with the appropriate supervision and support. The mentors assigned for this program are women with a long history of working with human rights, women’s issues and multicultural issues.
The first meeting between mentors and mentees will be facilitated by the NIRWA Program Manager.
The young women in this program are expected to participate in the Workshop running from the 29th June-1st July and be flexible and willing to either meet their mentors in person or to communicate through Skype/MSN Messenger, and on the phone.
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Jane Brock
Executive Officer
Immigrant Women’s Speakout Association of NSW
Ph: (02) 9635 8022
Fax: (02) 9635 8176
Noni Sproule
National Women's Officer
National Union of Students
wom...@nus.asn.au
0403 9869 10