MAWA prepares girls for public policy leadership

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…

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

Nyango Melissa Nambangi, December 28, 2014 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…

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LaBelle Nambangi follows her mother’s footsteps and helps other African immigrants adjust to life in Minnesota by Jennifer Thaney 03/02/2011 When LaBelle Nambangi heads into work, she isn’t sitting down at a quiet desk covered with neat stacks of paper. Instead she travels to five metro area high schools where her “desk” is most likely a…

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