MINNEAPOLIS – The agenda for the recently held African Women in the Diaspora Conference included lectures on gender issues, human rights issues with regard to sex and labor human trafficking, and widowhood. But perhaps the most often discussed topic was the practice of female genital cutting.
MAWA is looking for 4 low-income West African refugee or asylee women who would like to become Licensed Family Child-Care providers. Women should be residents of Minneapolis or the North-West Hennepin area – Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Crystal, etc. If interested, please call us at 763-561-2224 and ask for Miss Sandra. This announcement is open…
It is often said that “when you educate the man, you educate the family but when you educate the woman, you educate the community.” This adage epitomizes the importance of education for the girl child. Read more
The Minnesota African Women’s Association (MAWA) this past summer, engaged women from different parts of Africa across the Twin cities, in a series of training programs and activities that made the summer very enriching. Read more
The African Girls Initiative for Leadership and empowerment (AGILE) is a program that was created in 1998 by the Minnesota African Women’s association (MAWA). Their mission is to “Promote the wealth and wellbeing of African refugee and immigrant women and their families.” Read more
Women have been at the forefront of change and have played a big role in building and sustaining communities as well as organizing for the violence against women in the African society; yet for a long time their stories haven’t been told. Read more
Nyango Melissa Nambangi is the Founder and Executive Director of the Minnesota African Women Association (MAWA) August 9, 2014 Letter to African parents in Minnesota – Backgrounder for MAWA’s BART program Dear African parent/guardian: We want to tell you what some issues are for African teens in Minnesota – we have been working with them…