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The following NGOs and community groups are going to highlight their
cause and distribute their wares at the conference market place.
Multicultural Centre
For Women’s Health (MCWH) is an immigrant women's organisation committed
to improving the health and wellbeing of immigrant women working in paid
and unpaid employment across Australia. Multicultural Centre for Women's
Health provides national leadership and excellence in multilingual health
education, advocacy, training, and research with specific expertise in
sexual, reproductive, occupational, and mental health.
Immigrant Women’s
Domestic Violence Service (IWDVS) gives voice and provides culturally
sensitive services, statewide, to meet the needs of women and children
from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds (CALD) backgrounds
affected by domestic violence.
HOPE Project Cambodia is a small independent, not-for-profit, community-based
aid and development organisation operating in Cambodia. In 2006 HOPE project
constructed 9 wells across 4 villages, providing access to safe drinking
water. Christmas puddings were also sold by HOPE in 2006, through which
they successfully raised $4,500 for their Get the Kids to School Program.
Kwaio Arts of the Solomon Islands is a manufacturer of quality combs
and bags and will be selling these items through the Transitions marketplace.
The combs are known as faa or `alabafaafao, and are made and worn by men
as decoration, traditionally to hold magical objects that protect the
wearer from sorcery. The material of the bags, or wa`i, is made from the
inner bark of paper mulberry tree limbs. There is a long process of preparation
of the material, involving cutting the limbs, stripping the inner bark
out, soaking, drying, thinning, and finally splitting the material.
Readings
Books Music & Film has been awarded Australian Chain Bookstore
of the Year 2006 & Independent Bookseller of the Year in 1998 and
2001. Readings has been Melbourne’s pre-eminent independent bookstore
over the past three decades.
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