UNIFEM/USA 2008 Conference June 21 and 22 in Atlanta

RWN will be participating at the UNIFEM/USA 2008 Annual Meeting and Conference: Creating Change...Improving Lives, Saturday, June 21 and Sunday, June 22. It will be held at the SunTrust Conference Center, 303 Peachtree Street, NE, Atlanta, Georgia.

RWN's executive director will participate on the panel Microfinance: Empowering Women Worldwide. Additionally 6 of RWN's Microenterprise clients -- refugee and immigrant women entrepreneurs -- will have vendor booths at the marketplace.

Board Member Anne Olson honored for lifetime of service

Board member Anne Olson was honored at the 5th Annual Georgia's Legacy: Older Women Active and Alive Past Sixty-Five Awards Luncheon. It was presented by the Georgia Commission on Women, the Georgia Women's Institute, and the Georgia Osteoporosis Initiative.

As described in the program, the luncheon honors
ten outstanding Georgia women who, though past the usual age of retirement, are
still significantly involved and productive

RWN on WRFG 89.3 FM

On April 16, RWN was on the radio in Atlanta.

WRFG (W Radio Free Georgia) is the local community radio station where the DJs are all volunteers. A few of RWN's past and present board members and staff have been hosting radio shows on WRFG for many many years.

Yesterday I was the guest on Dr. Asha's show, Health Issues Today. I thought I would have only 10 minutes of her half hour show but we ended up talking the whole time. Time just flew by.

New Board Member: Sabrina Shams DeJoannis

RWN is very happy to introduce our newest board member, Ms. Sabrina Shams DeJoannis, engineering and financial analyst at the Georgia Power Company.

Ms. DeJoannis has been a trailblazer from a very early age. She is the first woman in her Bangladeshi family to leave home without being married. She immigrated to the US to pursue her education, and now she works as a woman in the male-dominated engineering field.

Spring 2005

Spring 2005 Edition of Moving Mountains is now available:

National Conference for Refugee and Immigrant Women

There was unusual bustle for an off-season week day morning at the Holiday Inn Select in downtown Decatur, Georgia. The sliding doors leading to the lobby filled with sounds of laughter, greetings, and many conversations. Women lugging bags checked in at the hotel desk and headed towards a sign that read ‘Refugee Women’s Network Inc.’

Press Release - RWN Sponsors National Conference for Refugee and Immigrant Women

For Immediate Release

Atlanta, Georgia - July 25, 2005 - Refugee Women's Network Inc. (RWN) is sponsoring the National Conference for Refugee and Immigrant Women in Atlanta, Georgia from September 22-25, 2005.

RWN on Atlanta 11 Alive News

Dr. BryAnn ChenRecently D. BryAnn Chen was featured on Atlanta's 11 Alive News.

"Every year, more and more refugees and immigrants find their way to Atlanta. Last year, more than 1,400 refugees moved to here, many of them women.

Health Promoters Leadership Program Goes National!

We represent the World
National Health Promoters Leadership Program ParticipantsOn November 12, 2007 bilingual/multicultural refugee and immigrant women gathered at the serene, wooded Timber Ridge Conference Center in Atlanta, GA for a five day intensive training of trainers.

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