Business Opportunity for Newly Arrived Refugee or Asylum-Granted African Woman 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…
– Do you know that many household cleaners that you buy to clean around the home, wash your dishes, wash your clothes, etc. are actually harmful to you as you breathe them in while cleaning around the home? – Do you know you can make your own non-toxic household cleaners at home, using vinegar and…
MAWA Women and Girls, here is something we are all guilty of in our communities. It is true that we, Africans. place a high value on children. However, that does not excuse how we hound women who do not have children to the point of destroying marriages where the couple has not had a child…
Dear African parent/guardian: We want to tell you what some issues are for African teens in Minnesota – we have been working with them since 2004 so we do know something about this. You may think “not MY teens” but just read through this. You all know how hard you work and how you are…
It is not quite often that discussions around sexuality or teen pregnancy come up in African immigrant homes. Even when these discussions prop triggered in some cases by television programs or movies, parents more often will always fall back to what their customs and traditions proscribe. Read more
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
Sunday May 8, 2011, is Mother’s Day. The day traditionally serves to honor and celebrate all mothers. As a son, with a wife, and as a father to two daughters, it is my honor and privilege to not only pay tribute to these women in my life, but to all African women in Minesota. Read…
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. Read more
Nyango Melissa Nambangi, founder of the Minnesota African Women’s Association (MAWA) received the Women’s of Distinction award from Century College on December 8, 2005. She and two other women are the first to receive the recently established award Read more
Outdoor temperatures soared to record-breaking levels Thursday, June 23rd. But the heat, held in check at the North Star Ballroom on the St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota did not weaken the enthusiasm or energy of Minnesota African Women’s Association as they hosted their second annual fundraising dinner to a crowd of over…