This month we had the good fortune of spending a day surrounded by a group of amazing women who know a great deal about women’s rights, health and female circumcision. On International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting,…
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AMES Student Retreat 2015
This is a second year in a row that MCWH multilingual health education program was part of the annual AMES female students’ retreat in Mt Eliza YMCA campsite. Over 100 women – English language students from all over Victoria- gathered at…
ASPIRE Project: Presenting at the Family Violence Has No Boundaries Conference
Our work on the ASPIRE Project – Analysing Safety and Place in Immigrant and Refugee Experience– led us to co-host a session at the Family Violence Has No Boundaries Conference, held at Melbourne Law School. Our BHE educator Manasi presented with…
Celebrating International Women's Week
Emerging from the activism of immigrant and refugee women workers, International Women’s Day has become a special day for women around the world. This year, MCWH has joined with all the Victorian Women’s Health services to celebrate the entire week…
Our bilingual health educator receives prestigious Heart Foundation award
Last night members of MCWH were privileged to attend the Second Heart Foundation Awards Dinner in Melbourne, to celebrate the outstanding acheivements of one of our bilingual health educators. Elizabeth Mazeyko is one of only three recipients of the prestigious…
Sharing our Strengths: Where to from here for FGM/C prevention?
Last WRAP we lamented that your average, news-loving Australian is unlikely to learn about the complex issues related to ending female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) because, too often, that kind of complexity is pushed out in favour of some good-old heart-pumping,…
Media Release: Sharing Our Strengths National Symposium on Best Practice Approaches to the Prevention of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
There is no single approach to eliminate female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), but there are many approaches that do work best to end the practice. This is the message at the core of the ‘Sharing Our Strengths’ symposium being held today.…
Our Voices: Filling the Gaps FGM Spokesperson Project
This week MCWH was honoured to welcome African Women Australia (AWAU) to our Melbourne training room to conduct a component of their national FGM Spokesperson Project. Juliana Nkrumah and Paula Abood worked together with 7 Melbourne-based African women to frame…
Southern Cross Care puts their worker's wellbeing first
Yesterday MCWH met with Ian Barton, Deputy CEO of Southern Cross Care Vic, which provides Aged Care services across Victoria. We celebrated the start of a wonderful collaborative program to develop women’s health mentors among the Southern Cross Care aged…
MWHA Roundtable: Building a national picture of immigrant and refugee women's health
Last week MCWH hosted a two-day roundtable for members of our national multicultural women’s health network, which has been developed as part of the the Multicultural Women’s Health Australia program. The occasion provided a rare opportunity to survey the current…