VIRWC Celebrating Refugee Women in Victoria

Women of extraordinary courage, resilience and dignity

Guest performance:

A dramatic monologue by Zelaihkha Akram

Please see flyer below for information about her.

Host:
Mrs. Jan de Kretser,
Chief Patron, VIRWC

Guest Speakers:

Amara Hamid

 

Amara Hamid arrived in Australia as a refugee from Eritrea in 1988. Amara works at the Kingston City Council as a community project worker since 2003 and is still able to give voluntary labour to organisations like the VIRWC, the Eritrean Women's Group and the South Eastern African Women's Network.

As a single mother, she managed to earn a Degree in Social Work from Monash University and Advanced Diploma in Family Therapy. Currently, she is taking up Masters of International and Community Development (distance education).

Amara speaks English and four Horn of African languages.

Myint Myint San

 

Myint Myint San arrived in Australia as a refugee from Burma in 1993. Her life has been a rollercoaster since the famous 8.8.88 Uprising that also gave rise to the house imprisonment of Aung San Suu Kyi. The uprising forced many Burmese students to flee Burma and conduct their revolutionary struggle in the jungles of the Thai-Burma border. Myint Myint was one of them. 

 In 1993, she joined a special program funded by the Australian government for Burmese students in Thailand to study in Australia.  She gained a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science at Monash University.

 She went back to Thailand in 2000 and founded a tight-knit group of more than 50 women from Burma who were trained as "women as peace builders" under the banner of the Women's League of Burma (WLB).

When: Friday June 19, 2009

Time: 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Where: Queen Victoria Women's Centre,Victoria Room
210 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne Vic 3000

RSVP: 16 June, 2009 to VIRWC 9654 1243 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Entry Fee: $15 and $10 Concession

Refreshment will be provided

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