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Women Reaching Women

 

What is Women Reaching Women?

The NFWI is working with Oxfam GB and the Everyone Foundation on a three year development, gender and climate change educational campaign. Women Reaching Women aims to broaden awareness of these issues amongst WI members, their families and communities.

 

WI members have spearheaded work on women's rights in the UK and now they are at the forefront of supporting the efforts of women all over the world to achieve recognition of their rights and join together to tackle climate change internationally.  

 

The Campaign So Far
In the first year of this project the NFWI held a training event for participating federations at Denman College from 8 - 10 October 2008. At this event, federation representatives learned about current gender and development issues and received support to coordinate inspirational events for the WI and their communities. 

 

The second year training event took place from 7 - 9 October 2009 at Denman College where participants shared experiences of the last year and took further training. The focus of this year's events will be on the Millennium Development Goals and why gender equality is vital to achieving these.

WRW year 2
Upcoming Events
If you are interested in attending any of the following events, please get in contact with the host Federation.

5 March              Jersey

6 & 8 March       Northamptonshire

8 March              Somerset

8 March              Norfolk

8 March              Northumberland

8 March              Sussex East

8 & 13 March    West Sussex

8 March             Cambridge

12 March           Oxfordshire

16 March           Glamorgan

30 March           Suffolk

28 April              Gloucestershire

28 April              Worcestershire

What You Can Do
1. Download the Women Reaching Women workbook or buy it from the WI website. Read it, and tell someone else about it.

2. Join the Women Reaching Women online community where you and women all around the world can have your say on climate change and development issues. (please email: moderator@nfwi.org.uk for a password and username)

3. Attend a Women Reaching Women federation event (see list above).

4. Hold a film night and show Oxfam's Sisters on the Planet DVD to raise awareness of the impacts of climate change on poor women internationally (this can be ordered through Oxfam's website).

5. Join the WI Climate Change campaign if you are passionate about the issues affecting women and climate change.

 

 

Workbook

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A workbook has been produced to act as a resource for you. It provides information about gender and development issues in more depth including: inequality, health, education, aid/debt/trade, violence, participation and climate change. The chapters explore the global challenges we all face today, and propose some principles and tools to help you make sense of, and influence, the direction of change in the future. We hope you will find it interesting and share it with others.

The aim of this workbook is to enable you to spread the view that we are all human beings who have an impact on the way our shared future will look, and a responsibility to look after each other's interests. The action pack section at the back of the book will help you to plan and organise development events both large and small. Together we can change the world, improving life on this planet for everyone.
 

This project is part-funded by the Department for International Development.

DFID


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