About seventy women from far and wide have meet at the Australian Botanical Gardens at Cranbourne and are walking - some using the people mover to tour the Gardens. Just a bit wet.
Monday, 28 April 2014
Monday, 14 April 2014
Wednesday, 9 April 2014
2014 ACCW South Pacific Conference
Hardly seems any time since we were heading off to wonderful Tonga for an Area Conference and now we are getting ready for the 2014 one.
From Sunday August 31st 2014
To be held in Dubbo, NSW, Australia
For CWA of Victoria members a bus trip, to and from the Conference, has been organised - details can be ascertained from head Office.
From Sunday August 31st 2014
To be held in Dubbo, NSW, Australia
For CWA of Victoria members a bus trip, to and from the Conference, has been organised - details can be ascertained from head Office.
Monday, 16 December 2013
Getting ready for 2014
From the ACWW/International & Committee Support Committee of the Country Women's Association of Victoria Inc all the very best wishes for a Merry Xmas and a Happy and Safe New Year.
Planning for 2014
In your diary put being part of our Women Walk the World event on or near 29th April, 2014
First event to advise of is:
on Tuesday 29th April, 2014 from 11am
At the Royal Botanical Gardens at Cranbourne.
The People mover will be in operation for those that cannot walk - with a guide.
All are welcome.
Both the restaurant and coffee shop will be open.
'recognizing that girls and women spend hours, everyday, walking to gain the most basic of needs'.
Planning for 2014
In your diary put being part of our Women Walk the World event on or near 29th April, 2014
First event to advise of is:
on Tuesday 29th April, 2014 from 11am
At the Royal Botanical Gardens at Cranbourne.
The People mover will be in operation for those that cannot walk - with a guide.
All are welcome.
Both the restaurant and coffee shop will be open.
'recognizing that girls and women spend hours, everyday, walking to gain the most basic of needs'.
Monday, 7 October 2013
Keynote Speaker
Sheela Francis
Tamil Nadu Women's Collective
This organisation has recently been awarded the Global Food Sovereignty Award.
The focus is upon rights of vulnerable women in society.
Sheela admires the courage of the women of the slums, each day they continue the struggle, everyday getting up and going on with life.
Within India there is a vast difference between the city and the rural women. In Chennai (city) many also speak English, whereas in rural areas the women speak only Tamil.
Within her limited time Sheela spoke of a few areas of work her organisation is doing:
One is getting women into Government. They supported some 2000 to contest elections with 402 being successful. In this process it was realised they needed to work with women for them to freely give their vote, not under the instructions from another, ie husband.
Then there is access to land - few women own land, most do not have access to land, have no control over land - to produce food. Looking to gain some control the Tamil Nadu Women's Collective have supported the development of establishing women's collectives re land.
A major program is one of Women and Climate Change. The Women's Collective has analysed how to manage, to adapt to the challenges being faced. One hundred years ago a large part of the diet was millet, now following the 'green revolution' of the 1960's it is rice. Rice however is not as nourishing. They have supported a process of returning to grow millet which requires much less water, a commodity in short supply.
Millet has greater drought tolerance and more suited to the area than rice and wheat.
They are providing education on how to use millet, re-introducing recipes from the past. Older women are involved in this, giving them value in society.
The organisation is against GMO crops. Monsanto has bought most of the local seed businesses, people do not know this as the businesses continue to operate under the original name.
Sheela articulated the Conference theme of 'Educate, Encourage, Enrich' through teaching people traditional knowledge, adapting these traditional ways with modern techniques resulting in improved outcomes for the rural women, enriching their lives.
Sheela Francis
Tamil Nadu Women's Collective
This organisation has recently been awarded the Global Food Sovereignty Award.
The focus is upon rights of vulnerable women in society.
Sheela admires the courage of the women of the slums, each day they continue the struggle, everyday getting up and going on with life.
Within India there is a vast difference between the city and the rural women. In Chennai (city) many also speak English, whereas in rural areas the women speak only Tamil.
Within her limited time Sheela spoke of a few areas of work her organisation is doing:
One is getting women into Government. They supported some 2000 to contest elections with 402 being successful. In this process it was realised they needed to work with women for them to freely give their vote, not under the instructions from another, ie husband.
Then there is access to land - few women own land, most do not have access to land, have no control over land - to produce food. Looking to gain some control the Tamil Nadu Women's Collective have supported the development of establishing women's collectives re land.
A major program is one of Women and Climate Change. The Women's Collective has analysed how to manage, to adapt to the challenges being faced. One hundred years ago a large part of the diet was millet, now following the 'green revolution' of the 1960's it is rice. Rice however is not as nourishing. They have supported a process of returning to grow millet which requires much less water, a commodity in short supply.
Millet has greater drought tolerance and more suited to the area than rice and wheat.
They are providing education on how to use millet, re-introducing recipes from the past. Older women are involved in this, giving them value in society.
The organisation is against GMO crops. Monsanto has bought most of the local seed businesses, people do not know this as the businesses continue to operate under the original name.
Sheela articulated the Conference theme of 'Educate, Encourage, Enrich' through teaching people traditional knowledge, adapting these traditional ways with modern techniques resulting in improved outcomes for the rural women, enriching their lives.
Tuesday, 1 October 2013
Day Five
Each day we are taken to the Conference Venue in St Joseph school buses - I do wonder how the children are getting to school each day.
Business continued with Resolutions & Recommendations and Committee Reports
Workshops today:
Agriculture Committee
'Water/Vegetable Gardens/Agriculture'
Grow Locally - Benefit globally- Subsistence-Commercial
Finance Committee
'Money Makes the World Go Around'
Projects Committee
'Projects - Procedures, Priorities and Processes'
Promotions and Publicity Committee
'ACWW moving forward - ideas for promotion'
how does P&P encourage, educate and enrich ACWW'.
Triennial Conference Committee
'Around the world with TCC, what is it all about'.
United Nations Committee
'UN - Current Issues - a Dialogue'.
The evening closed with an 'Entertain the World' evening at the Conference Centre.
Each day we are taken to the Conference Venue in St Joseph school buses - I do wonder how the children are getting to school each day.
Business continued with Resolutions & Recommendations and Committee Reports
Workshops today:
Agriculture Committee
'Water/Vegetable Gardens/Agriculture'
Grow Locally - Benefit globally- Subsistence-Commercial
Finance Committee
'Money Makes the World Go Around'
Projects Committee
'Projects - Procedures, Priorities and Processes'
Promotions and Publicity Committee
'ACWW moving forward - ideas for promotion'
how does P&P encourage, educate and enrich ACWW'.
Triennial Conference Committee
'Around the world with TCC, what is it all about'.
United Nations Committee
'UN - Current Issues - a Dialogue'.
The evening closed with an 'Entertain the World' evening at the Conference Centre.
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