Refugee Women's Network Inc. - Empowering Refugee & Immigrant Women Through Leadership Training, Education & Advocacy Since 1995

Save the Date: National Conference November 14 to 16, 2008

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In Our Hands: Building Solidarity and Community
9th Annual Refugee & Immigrant Women’s Leadership Conference
November 14-16, 2008
Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia

Keynote speakers:

Grand Opening: Microenterprise Program Success Story

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This weekend was the grand opening of the Family Choice Salon, run by one of our microenterprise program clients, Ms.

UNIFEM/USA 2008 Conference June 21 and 22 in Atlanta

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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

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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

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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

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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.

RWN Partners with Decatur First Bank, Bringing Economic Opportunities for Refugee & Immigrant Women

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Spring 2005

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Spring 2005 Edition of Moving Mountains is now available:

National Conference for Refugee and Immigrant Women

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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

admin — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:05:10 -0700

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.