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Women Empowerment and Leadership is assisting Dare Turkman Afghan Association in helping the Afghan Community. WEL Director Rita Anwari alongside Dare Turkman Association Afghan Community leaders had a very successful meeting with Logan City Council. On very short notice, we met with the Deputy Councilor, Jon Ray alongside Mindy Russell from Council Division 3 to discuss the issues of the Community. We are so grateful to be surrounded by caring Councilors like Jon and Mindy as they proceeded with our meeting on short notice. They involved their significant departments to further discuss these issues and better the community as a whole. On behalf of Women Empowerment and Leadership, we once again thank you for this meeting and look forward to working with you further. Dare Turkman Association Inc.

Words can’t describe the feeling we have right now. Yesterday, Team of WEL and our Founder and President, Rita Anwari welcomed another few families at the land of opportunity called home – Australian beautiful Brisbane.Land away from stress and worriedness especially everyone has their own right and respect as individuals. We can’t wait to spend more time with them. Stay tuned for more newsStill, we are not done yet.

As we wrap up the month of May, we would like to give a recap and acknowledge the event about Domestic and Family Violence. On the 29th of May at the White House, we had a great turn up from all our guests who joined us on the day at such a great venue, which was in the outdoors by the lake. We were happy that everyone was able to comply by the Covid-19 restrictions. We would like to say a huge thanks to our special guest speakers, Annette Hurley, Sonia Hakim, Ashwarya Somal, Fahima Ahmadi, Leila Loei, Nasrin Vaziri, MP Shannon Fentiman’s representative who talked upon the issue and gave us great insight and experiences that expressed the seriousness of Domestic and family violence. We would also like to say a huge thanks to our distinguished guests, MP Jim Madden, Habib Jamal, Galila Abdelsalam, Christine Harman, representative of Dr Kay Danes, Dr Tanya Unni, Aunty Peggy Tidyman, Representative of MP Mindy Russell who attended our summit on that evening. The purpose of this event was to raise awareness on Domestic and Family violence and how we can help each other to overcome such a societal issue. We were so grateful to have such strong individuals to be able to join us and be able to stand together to #saynotodomesticviolence. We would also like to acknowledge other events that Women Empowerment and Leadership has been part of such as conferences, webinars, working with clients and attending events. This month has been a month full of great achievements on Women Empowerment and leaderships behalf. We want to acknowledge that the purpose of Women Empowerment and Leadership is to empower individuals to better themselves and to support those who are in need.

Since the evacuation process from Afghanistan has started, Women Empowerment and Leadership (WEL) has been committed under the leadership of Rita Anwari as founderof the organization.To find a solution to assist Afghan refugee and their families to evacuate to Brisbane and other Australian regions through an emergence settlement program. Recently we worked as volunteers with other agencies we have assisted around 30 new families who arrived from Afghanistan last weekend with a special welcome Indian dinner. Was very rewarding seeing their smiles and happy expression on their faces.And huge thanks to WEL voluntary team. We are still not doneMore to be doneStay tuned Christina Terita

On the 19ht of August, Women Empowerment & Leadership alongside Brisbane gathered as a community for the lighting up of the Afghan Flag in the Brisbane City. We would like to say a huge thanks to the Brisbane City Council for allowing us to gather and celebrate such a day. We would like to thank them for lighting the Brisbane City Council up for us. Also, would like to thank Shannon Fentiman MP for lighting up the Parliament House for Afghanistan. We were grateful to have the lights light the night sky up in the three colours of black, red and green for Afghanistan. This event was hosted by Women Empowerment & Leadership. We want to thank everyone who came and complied with the COVID restrictions. This was a great time to stand in solidarity for the situation in Afghanistan but also unite for the National Flag Day of Afghanistan.