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Flora Mini Marathon, June 3rd 2013

June 3rd 2013 : Flora Mini Marathon register and run, walk or jog for AkiDwA

 

Annual Brain Gain Event

June 28 2013: the Annual Brain Gain Event.

 

AkiDwA AGM

November 16 2013: AkiDwA AGM

 

Communication Officer (Internship)

Communication officer is been sought to assist with managing the organisation’s internal and external communication.

 

Office Administrator (CE)

This is a Community Employment (CE) position funded by FÁS and the person applying would have to qualify under FAS- Community Employment scheme guidelines

 
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History

AkiDwA as an organisation emerged from regular meetings held amongst fellow migrant women, from 1999 to 2001, initiated by Salome Mbugua, a Kenyan migrant woman who had arrived in Ireland in 1994. The first meeting was held in city centre Dublin, in Temple Bar, in 1999. In 2001, through the support of the Catherine McAuley Centre, Salome mobilised a group of African women to come together to share their experiences of living in Ireland. What emerged from this meeting were feelings of exclusion, isolation, racial abuse and discrimination, issues related to gender based violence were also raised. The group went on to meet regularly and were supported and offered facilitation from outside. AkiDwA sought and obtained funding from the Combat Poverty Agency in 2002 to carry out a pilot needs assessment with African women living in Ireland. The survey elicited over two hundred female participants from seventeen counties.