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A Bay Area
First At Eid Celebration!
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Thurs Feb 16 2006
Hotel Africa Forum
and Networking series will return in 2006 (Africa
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Our
Highlights:
Jan 19-23 2006
World Social Forum
WSF
2006 Bamako, Mali
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Fri Dec 30
featuring WOAFA
2005 Community Builders of the year!
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HAPPY New Year 2006!
and our very best wishes for the New year!
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Looking back
at 2005: we are proud of our many
accomplishments including the building of our
first bridge to West Africa (Guinea) via our
Exploratory Mission to Guinea and our project
proposal Thank you to all who have
supported our efforts locally and in Guinea!
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forward to doing more in 2006! Until then be
safe and well...
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More Documents
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find out more.
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WAFRICA News |
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01.10.06. MAMAYA 2006:
African Women, Drums, Food and people celebrating
Eid Al Kebir (or Tabaski) for a Bay area First!
Everyone is invited: men, women and children! with Griots singing and
dancing, Drummers and African Music and Food
Photos of Mamaya 12.30.05: Femme Africaine! our end of year celebration featuring
Music, Food & the 2005 WOAFA Community Builder
Recognition
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12.18.05:
HIV/AIDS: Cultivating openness Film Screening
of "Hope, Espoir, Lidaw", by Hope thru
Health Association with
Featured speaker Kevin Fiori *Discussion
moderated by M Kamara (WAFRICA), with
African Food, Art and Music .
11.20-11.21.05: NYC
Producer Lisa Rusell in San Francisco and Oakland, CAFor Film Screening and Discussion on Obstetrics fistula
(WAFRICA presents Love, Labor and Loss), with
speakers panelists Dr Amreen Husain (Stanford
Medical Center), Dr Eiman Mahmoud (Touro's
University/AISCS) and Diane Harrison Planned
Parenthood Golden gate
11.15.05: Meeting Bay Area African Women
Entrepreneurs, Oakland, CA
11.11-11.13.05: WAFRICA cosponsor at Amnesty
International Western regional Conference / HIV and
Aids in Africa Workshop on Poverty, Gender, Debt and
development
8.5.05:Board meeting: Guinea Mission report.
Guinea project -PAFP-Closed meeting
6.22.05: WAFRICA-Guinea officially registered as
US based NGO in Guinea to help rural women and women
without voices
5.5-6.27.05: WAFRICA exploratory mission in
Guinea, WEST AFRICA,
6.10.05: Africa Coalition meets in Emeryville
(formerly Hotel Africa)
2.28-3.11.05: WAFRICA attends the UN Conference
in New York at the 49th session of the Commission on
The Status of Women (Beijing+10)
2.25.05: Hotel Africa. WAFRICA reports on Beijing
+10. Planning Committee meets
2.01.05:
WAFRICA launches its discussion group the
Wafricaforum
1.14.05: WAFRICA board meets to set current year
goals and agenda. Emeryville, CA
7.31.04: WAFRICA hosts a benefit and reception at
the Linen Life
Gallery, Emeryville, CA, featuring book signing and
reception, live performances, arts, food and music.
Story in
pictures
7.11.04: WAFRICA hosted its first Family and
Friends BBQ & picnic. A free community event to
introduce the WARC and build support
for the program. Berkeley Marina, Berkeley, CA
Story in
pictures
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Out of Africa: a Female President in
2005, a Nobel Peace recipient in 2004 |
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" I think Africans are gradually coming to terms with
the fact that women have more roles to play in society
beyond cleaning, cooking and
- child bearing."—Ope
Ogundokun, 27 year old Nigerian Female Student
completing post law degree South africa. on
the Liberian
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presidential election of Ms Ellen Sirleaf
Johnson as the First Female president on the
Continent of Africa,
"I would like to call on
young people, in particular, to take inspiration
from this prize. Despite all the constraints that
they face, there is hope in the future in serving
the common good. What my experiences have taught me
is that service to others has its own special
rewards." —Prof. Wangari
Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech as
the First African Women Nobel Price Winner.
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