ALDA – WEMIN

WEMIN in the spotlight at European Development Days 2018

y@nnis — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 13:05:59 +0000

The European Development Days 2018 took place on 6 June 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. ALDA participated in the event through a presentation of its projects related to gender issues: “(Im-) Perfect day: ALDA Europe fighting for a more equal society”.

WEMIN partners meeting at the Council of Europe

y@nnis — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 09:31:44 +0000

ALDA’s office within the Council of Europe, in Strasbourg, hosted the second meeting of the steering committee of the project WEMIN on 9-10 July 2018.

WEMIN, funded by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund of the European Union, stands for „Migrant Women Empowerment and Integration”. Over two years, it puts together 9 partners from 8 EU countries to implement and promote a pioneering integration model for migrant/refugee women of all ages in the communities involved.

Women from all the world meet in Strasbourg

y@nnis — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:51:52 +0000

On 20 September, ALDA hosted in Strasbourg the first dissemination event of the project WEMIN (Migrant Women Empowerment and Integration), which is a two-year project funded by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund of the European Union.

WEMIN partners meet in Florence, and discover the city with a migrant tour

y@nnis — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 19:06:13 +0000

ALDA took part in the third WEMIN partner meeting, held in Florence (Italy) on 9th and 10th of January, hosted by OXFAM ITALIA. ALDA was represented by Solène Falk, project manager and Irene Zanetti, head of communications.

WEMIN is a two-years project funded by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Found of the European Union, which stands for “Migrant Women Empowerment and Integration”. Concretely, the project implements a new integration model for refugee and migrant women of all ages in all the communities involved, through a deep exchange between migrant and local women, shared on intercultural dialogue, languages training, mentoring sessions, several cultural activities. Partners thoroughly discussed the ongoing and future challenges of the project, thinking together of strategies to maximise the impact of the work, in such a sensitive time in Europe.

After the discussion, OXFAM invited all participants to discover Florence through a special “migrant tour”, guided by two migrants from Africa, which showed lots of hidden beauties, highlighting the multicultural soul of Florence and its welcome network. Finally, all participants tasted a traditional cardamom tea in a Somali café, where Florentine Somalis meet. That was a brilliant activity to stress migrants’ deep integration into social and cultural fabric of Florence, as well as the key activity of Italian and international volunteers.

Embroidery and herbal dyeing for inclusion

y@nnis — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 19:44:51 +0000

The first cycle of ALDA’s arts and crafts workshops in the framework of WEMIN has officially started! On the 6th and 7th of July ALDA animated a workshop on embroidery and herbal dyeing in collaboration with the seamstress Felis Catus at Lieu d’Europe, in Strasbourg. Women coming from France, Armenia, Mali, Guinea, Italy and Spain had the chance to learn about these techniques while exchanging and getting to know each other. Some of their creations will be exposed at the end of October.

The continuation of ALDA’s arts & crafts workshops will be in September: two more days of embroidery and herbal dyeing, a second cycle of upcycling and a third cycle of photography.

Exhibition of WEMIN’s workshops creations in Strasbourg

y@nnis — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 16:50:02 +0000

One of the objectives of WEMIN project was to bring together migrant, refugee and local women in arts&crafts workshops.

These workshops have been implemented in three cycles in Strasbourg, France. One of them was an upcycling workshop and was developed in collaboration with the association “Creative Vintage”. Another workshop concerned embroidery, painting and herbal-dyeing animated by the association L’Atelier du Club. The last one was a workshop about photography in cooperation with the association Stimultania.