Migrant & Refugee

Woman of the

Year Awards This month the Migrants’ Right

Network has launched the 2013

Migrant and Refugee Woman of the

Year Awards.

The Awards recognise and

celebrate women who having

migrated or fled persecution

themselves, find time to provide

essential support and inspiring

leadership at a grassroots level to

others starting a new life in the UK.

In 2012, three exceptional women

were recognised – Nazek

Ramadan, Luljeta Nuzi and Clara

Osagiede – and this year the

awards have expanded to cover two

categories, Migrant and Refugee

Woman of the Year & Young

Migrant and Refugee Woman of the

Year.

Eid Mubarak! Eid got underway here at The

Arbour with a celebration as tasty as

it was joyful. With food brought from

home, the women of the Mentoring

& Social Inclusion Project, both

mentors and menteers brought a

truly global spread to the table.

The highly intricate, and equally

difficult to master, mehndi was also

on show. The Arbour is now

adorned with pattern!

…Mentoring makes the news BBC Asian Network interviews mentor & mentee

match, Victoria & Mazeda

‘Standing in the queue at a coffee

shop in Mile End in East London,

Mazeda Chowdhury looks somewhat

apprehensive about the upcoming

order. Until a few months ago the 21-

year-old from Bangladesh had never

ordered herself a drink, her husband

would always do it for her’

Inspired by the work we do here at

The Arbour, BBC Asian Network

stopped by to meet Mazeda

Chowdhury and the woman who has

helped her gain independence and

confidence in London, Victoria Briggs.

The article, entitled ‘London project

gives immigrants lessons in being

British’, highlights that beyond the

learning of English, the projects run

by The Arbour are about becoming

part of Britain.

Learning how to get by in the UK

begins with the basics of learning

how to use the tube network but it is

through introducing women to the

history, institutions, cultural life and

fundamental norms and values of

British society that we enable them

to become a true part of it.

Read the full article at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20004975

The Arbour News October 2012

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Quarterly Report

July – September 2012 Annual Report

July 2011 - June 2012

Our Projects

The official launch of Connecting Mums

The Empowerment & Leadership Project:

How we’re building leaders in your local

community

Our Events

It’s Halloween!

Let the Christmas Carols commence! The

Arbour’s Carollers need some practice…

& Elsewhere

The Migrants Rights Network launches its

campaign for International Migrants Day:

http://our-day.org

Next month… The Arbour Reports...

The British Museum is beautiful, we

were excited as we saw many

people, so much noise! We saw so

many things, pictures, books, coins,

rings, pipes and maps

We looked at a famous map called

London ‘The Long View’. I found

this very interesting because I learnt

that it was handmade by sewing in

cotton. I learnt about how life was

400 years ago from pictures of

London City

During medieval times rich people

liked to wear famous clothes… we

saw a jacket owned by a very rich

man made by weaving decoration,

covered in people playing games

each different and it looks like a tree

In

their

own

words…

The British Museum

welcomes the world…

English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) is the backbone of everything we do here at The Arbour Women’s Services and expanding women’s minds is top of the agenda. The acoustics and vibrancy of the British Museum has the power to make many speechless but the women who visited the ‘Shakespeare – Staging the World’ exhibition last week found plenty to talk about.

The exhibition provides a unique insight into the emerging role of London as a world city, seen through the innovative perspective of Shakespeare’s plays as they provided the residents of England with a window to the world. The intricacy and beautiful craftsmanship of the clothing and theatrical pieces on display were truly appreciated and coveted by the class. But it was the portraits of Queen Elizabeth I that drew the most admiring glances as the power of a woman who ruled the world - even without a husband – provided novelty, if not a little inspiration.

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