Community News and Events
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The Intercultural Women’s Leadership Collective
You’re already leading. Join the collective where you can grow your leadership alongside others.
Join the collective for migrant- and refugee background women, co-designed and led by wahine. 20 women, 2 facilitators, seven months, three residentials; building relationships, sharpening your voice, shaping intercultural leadership in Aotearoa.
KAHIKA: Employment Readiness Programme
Struggling to get beyond the application part when looking for work? Join this employment programme that helps you gain information, tips and networks to support you in your employment search. Send your expression of interest today. Limited spaces.
Playgroups empowering children through Engage
The ability for children to self-regulate their emotions is a a huge indicator for success later in life. Safari Multicultural Playgroups now have an adapted version for our communities, of the Engage programme: a nationwide programme to help children cultivate their emotional, cognitive and behavioural skills through game playing. It was developed by Associate Professor Dione Healey of Otago University, and is based on research findings from the Dunedin longitudinal study.
Episode 15 #PassTheMic: Tales of being a child refugee, human rights advocacy and Love Is Blind
This interview is with a wonderful, wonderful woman in a dear friend, Kat Eghdamian. She is an Iranian-Kurdish New Zealander and former child refugee. Kat has 6 degrees (which she is a bit embarrassed about) and works as Lead Advisor for Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner. Kat tells many stories about her country of birth, journey to Aotearoa, her parents and her work with migrant exploitation and modern slavery. We end on chatting about Love is Blind and delicious Persian food. Enjoy.
Episode 3 #PassTheMic: African representation, poetry and hot takes
Vira Paky is a young Congolese-Kiwi-South African woman. She is a Chairperson of the New Zealand National Refugee Youth Council, which advocates for, engages & supports refugee background youth around Aotearoa New Zealand. Vira is an outstanding poet who writes about intersections of feminism, race, African identity and many other poignant topics. In this episode we talk about Vira’s poetry, being true to her voice, black-kiwi representation in New Zealand, what it means to be an advocate in this day and age plus Vira's “hot take” about young people and the future.
Saying goodbye to WISE
As we say bye to 2021, with a heavy heart we also say goodbye to our beloved project, The WISE Collective.