About RWN
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.
Twelve Years of Leadership Training, Education and Advocacy
Leadership Training: gives women across the US the skills to help their communities develop their own solutions.
Microenterprise and Microloans: helps women in the Atlanta area to start, expand, or strengthen their businesses.
Health Promoters: trains women to be health educators and liaisons between their communities and health care providers.
Advocacy: promotes increased participation by refugee and immigrant women in decision-making processes.
Refugee Women’s Network, Inc. would like to thank our donors and supporters for their generous assistance in 2006:
- Ford Foundation
- Office of Refugee Resettlement
- Office of Victims of Crime
- State of Georgia Department of Human Resources
- Tides Foundation