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FEB 2024 - Vol 1, Issue 1
ECCQ’s Women’s Ethnic Network invites all women to the International Women’s Day Brisbane, Jan 31 (MCCQ Newsdesk) ECCQ Press Release
not economically empowered are more likely to be vulnerable to coercive control, and financial abuse.
The 2024 International Women’s Day breakfast, hosted by the Ethnic Communities Join hundreds of multicultural women for an illuminating Council of Queensland breakfast set to recognise (ECCQ)’s Women’s Ethnic the valuable contribution Network (WEN) will be held again in the picturesque of women to Queensland, uplift women in our Victoria Park on Friday 8th community, and celebrate March from 7:00am, for a emerging leaders! We will be 7:20am start. This year, the announcing the winners of theme is: the ECCQ Advancing Women Scholarships: the Cleo Xynias Count Her In: Invest in Women. Accelerate Progress. Multicultural Woman of the Year scholarship, and the Emerging Professional This focus on economic scholarship. empowerment reinforces what we know to be a key Stay tuned for our speaker factor impacting women, particularly as those who are announcements coming soon,
and be prepared to join in our raffle and win some incredible prizes! Come along, be counted and connect with our wonderful WEN women! Please RSVP by Friday the 1st of March, 2024. Spaces are limited, so get in now! If you’d like to be a sponsor for this event, please contact advocacy@eccq.com.au. If you have any questions, please call Anna on: 0413 512 961. The Ethnic Women’s Network (WEN) is a part of the ECCQ organisation which
comprises of women who are entrepreneurs, professionals, academics, and those who are interested in getting together to have chats about professional work, mental health, or just socialisation. This advocacy group WEN organises regular meetings with their members and often calls mentors and experts in various fields to discuss and address priorities and challenges relevant to improving the equity and advancement of culturally diverse women. Last year the WEN group organised the International Women’s day breakfast along with ECCQ staff. This year volunteers and
members of WEN along with ECCQ staff are organising the event. This is a moment where the group recognises the migrant women who have come a long way to reach Brisbane to make it their home. The focus for the WEN group for this year is to create awareness and programs, workshops, forums, and training around violence against women paving a path to make the larger community aware of the impacts of violence against women. If you are interested in this group please contact Anna Rolandsen of ECCQ at advocacy@eccq.com.au. to receive the information for joining the group.
Volunteers needed for Multiculture Community Connect Queensland MCCQ Newspaper Content Writers: We need 3 content writers to write articles on
various activities held in community organisations from different migrant community background.
Photographer: We need one photographer to take photos of
activities at different community events.
Office Assistant: We need one Office Assistant to assist the Board
of Directors in various office admin tasks.
If you are interested please send an email to secretary@mccq.org.au
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