Migrants and refugees are all so different from each other that it can be quite difficult sometimes to find a common experience among us. However, one thing that we often say and hear from the women we work with is…
What's normal anyway?
Amid all the recent talk about what it means to be Australian, you might have heard that the typical Australian is now a woman, according to the 2016 census data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Australia’s “new normal” is…
60 seconds with Resika KC
Mental health worker and global citizen What are you enjoying doing at the moment? I am enjoying working in community mental health and being able to support people in their recovery. One of the good things about my work is…
The WRAP#52- Five things we learnt about preventing FGM/C, The path towards excellent sexual and reproductive health & 60 Seconds with Shegofa Hazara
MCWH held our third NETFA Forum, Foundations for Change, on the 24th March and we are still buzzing with the conversations, ideas and strategies that were presented and discussed when we talk about how to end the practice of female genital…
Five things we learnt about preventing FGM/C
The third NETFA Forum, Foundations for Change in Melbourne gathered together a group of amazing women to discuss women’s rights, health and prevention of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). For those of you who couldn’t make it, we’ve put together a list of five key messages that we…
The path towards excellent sexual and reproductive health
It’s sometimes said that the best laid plans can often go wrong but more optimistically, a plan is often a map that marks out where we have come from and where it is we need to go. How we travel along the…
60 seconds with Shegofa Hazara
Multilinguist and education advocate If you had a magic wand, what would you use it for? If I had a magic wand, I would use it to eliminate poverty, corruption and discrimination so no one is forced to leave their…
Happy International Women's Day 2017!
Happy International Women’s Day! We always celebrate the strong, intelligent, courageous and inspiring women in our lives, especially the ones we work with, laugh with, love and share the various stages of our lives with. That’s why this year we…
Honouring Immigrant Women on IWD
There are many things that separate Anna Moo and Hana Assafiri. They hail from different places around the world, and they come from different generations in life. And yet their lives have converged in the most special of ways, something…
NETFA Forum 2017
The National Education Toolkit for FGM/C Awareness (NETFA) Project is in its third and final year and to celebrate, MCWH will be hosting a National Forum on FGM/C on 24th March 2017 at the Woodward Conference Centre in Melbourne. It…