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Tues Jan 10th 2006
A Bay Area First At Eid Celebration!
 
Thurs Feb 16 2006
By the Global fund for women, The Women of Color Resource Center, WAFRICA and Priority Africa Network.

Hotel Africa Forum and Networking series will return in 2006 (Africa Coalition of the Bay Area)-

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Our Highlights:
Jan 19-23 2006
World Social Forum
WSF 2006 Bamako, Mali
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Fri Dec 30
WAFRICA end of year celebration: Femme Africaine!
featuring WOAFA 2005 Community Builders of the year!

 

Last Updated:
January 2006

 

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HAPPY New Year 2006! and our very best wishes for the New year!
 
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!
We look forward to doing more in 2006! Until then be safe and well...
Go to More Documents to find out more.
 
 
 
 

  WAFRICA News                                                              

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
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

  Out of Africa: a Female President in 2005, a Nobel Peace recipient in 2004

  
      " 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
             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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