BE COUNTED

Refugee Women’s Network has partnered with the Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) to encourage our refugee and immigration community to participate in Census and ensure complete and accurate count of our nation’s population in 2010.
The census defines who we are as a nation. Accurate census data helps determine congressional representation, grant funding and guide local decision-makers on where to build new roads, hospitals, housing, schools and more.

RWN strives to be the catalyst between our communities and the mainstream U.S. Our communities experience hardship due to economic status, immigration status, limited language proficiency, disability and more. Census data can benefit our community by accurately portraying the number of people we represent. Annually the U.S. government allocates more that $400 billion to states and local government based on census data. This means more resources like schools, hospitals, day care centers for our communities. Additionally it helps RWN in writing grants to support our work.

Created in 1995, Refugee Women's Network, Inc. (RWN), is a national non profit organization created by women, for women, that focuses on enhancing refugee and immigrant women's strength, skills, and courage, through leadership training, education and advocacy to promote independence, self-sufficiency, and networking among its participants.

Refugee Women's Network is governed and staffed by refugee and immigrant women from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas.

All activities bring together women of different ethnicities.