Women’s Global Pathways is committed to empowering women and girls as they work to improve their quality of life. Our focus is refugee, immigrant and low income women and girls. The latter tend to represent the socially marginalized, culturally dependent, politically oppressed and economically challenged populations. They carry the worst burden of survival for themselves and their families. They must learn a new language, find and keep a job, adapt to an urban, industrialized, economy and a host of other.
We have adopted a multi-dimensional approach that takes into account the social, cultural and economic factors.
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PO Box 93445
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Women's Global Pathways-NM
Women's Global Pathways-New Mexico
Empowerment
News Release For Immediate Release: Open To The Public
Good through Saturday, December 8th
Primary Contact : Katharine Dougherty – Director of Community and Global Citizenship, Albuquerque Academy – 505-828-3277
OR Babsy Sinandile at 505 620-7486 New Mexico Women's Global Pathways Event Planner And Market Researcher
Albuquerque Academy hosts Benefit Community Celebration - “Share the Care!”
(Albuquerque, NM- December 8, 2012)— Albuquerque Academy students, faculty and staff will take to the theater to alongside other community artists, for a benefit event that will celebrate community this holiday season and “Share the Care!” Performers of all ages and cultures, representing the diversity of our community, will engage in singing, poetry, dancing and a fashion show featuring the designs of the local organization, NM Women’s Global Pathways-an organization that serves refugee, immigrant and low income women and families by offering English tutoring, sewing, weaving and beading lessons to foster economic development. NM Women’s Global Pathways will benefit from the sales of holiday crafts, clothing and accessories after the show. Those in attendance will also have the opportunity to sponsor eclectic handmade bags containing items such as scarves, socks, gloves and hats which given to individuals served by The Metropolitan Homelessness Project.
Date: Saturday, December 8th
Time: 6pm to 8pm
Admission Free, but donations will be accepted. Attendees are encouraged to “Share the Care” by purchasing crafts, accessories and bags supporting both NMWGP and the Metropolitan Homelessness Project.
Albuquerque Academy’s mission: We believe that children's lives change when their
natural passion for learning is nurtured and transformed into habits of life-long learning
and reflection. We believe that the world changes as these children learn to serve country and community with wisdom, conviction, and compassion. www.aa.edu
NM Women’s Global Pathways (NMWGP): is a not-for-profit organization whose fiscal
agent is La Mesa Presbyterian Church and is also sponsored by Self Development Of
People of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. The Mission of NMWGP is to empower refugee, immigrant and other local low income women and their families to attain self-sufficiency through education, economic development and strengthened life skills.
www.womensglobalpathways.wordpress.com : contact: Babsy Sinandile 505-620-7486 or “Mama Nkazi at 505-435-5741; email “womensglobalpathways@gmail.com
Our Story
Women’s Global Pathways –NM is a grassroots organization by and for refugee, immigrant and low income local women girls and their families, who reside in New Mexico.We have decided to take control of our financial situations by confronting the social systems that oppress us. Our main goal is to rise out of poverty in a dignified manner that respects our self worth and dignity.We have conceived a program designed to help us to become self sufficient.
We collaborate with local organizations, and are committed to help empower, motivate and support ourselves , our families, while promoting our social, economic, and political well-being.
During these hard economic times, with some of us not finding jobs, and others finding jobs only to loose them, we have decided to take control of our lives in an effort to move from being dependent on social services, to "self help” by providing a nurturing environment while helping ourselves create entrepreneurial businesses.
We are currently working hard to create a sustainable economical development center where we seek to train in sewing , English As A Second language, Life, business, computer skills, weaving and beading, in our quest to improve our earning power. Our greatest need is funds and any assistance that can be given us to create a sustainable project to help us become self sufficient.
Goal For Women's
Global Pathways New Mexico
By the way our program serves men and children as well, but the majority of participants are women and girls.
We work to improve our economic conditions in all aspects, including:
- Leadership development;
- Capitalizing on our strengths, knowledge and skills
- Promoting cultural understanding and tolerance among all of us;
- Promoting our rich heritage through art;
- Providing opportunities for us (artisans in training) to prosper in our communities;
Youth Children's Sewing Track
The economical development center we are trying to create is a donated 14 x 60 mobile home that we received after one of us staged a 16 refugee awareness Hunger Strike April 2010.
We continue to work hard to avail ourselves of opportunities to learn to sew and are creating products for sale while in training.
- Please Donate
Non Monetary
- Yarn for knitting, crotchet and weaving
- Urgent- adequate mode of transportation ( 15 seater) van
- World Fabrics, incuding African, Middle Eastern, Asian and south western and more;
- thread, sewing machine needles;
- Beads and beading materials;
- Educational toys for children;
- lap top computer;
manequins ( small, medium and large)
Monetary
- Send monetary donations to La Mesa Presbyterian church,( fiscal agent) 7401 Copper Ave. NE, Albuquerque, 87108 c/o Rev. Trey Hammond: Memo Women's Global Pathways New Mexico.
Services
We offer the following services:
- Work experience
- Entrepreneurial training;
- Job readiness training;
- Basic literacy skills;
- Training in crafts such as sewing, weaving, and other needlework arts;
- Provide English as a second Language classes;
- Provide venues at which women can sell their products;
Did You Know?
According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, there are approximately 50 million uprooted people around the world - refugees who have sought safety in another country and people displaced within their own country. Between 75-80 per cent of them are women and children.
The women often carry the heaviest burden of survival for themselves and their families. Most of the refugee women who resettle in Albuquerque, for example, have no formal education and suffer from a wide range of problems, including:
The need to learn a new language
Finding and retaining employment
Disproportionate responsibility at home, which limits livelihood opportunities
Skills not readily transferable to the U.S.
Lack of community support
PO Box 93445
Albuquerque, NM 87199
ph: 505- 306-8822
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