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Special guest speakers at Saturday’s Oromo Community Refugee Week event, Likkee Gossa, left, and Sinke Wesho, have campaigned tirelessly in Australia and abroad for the rights of refugees and women from the African community. Inset: Oromo volunteer co-ordinator and Challenge Family Violence mentor Marama Kufi speaks to the audience on Pictures: ROB CAREW Saturday. 122548
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The Victorian Oromo Community Association was established in 1984 LEADERS of an African refugee comby African refugees from these areas, munity that places emphasis on respecting its female members have reaffirmed with a majority fleeing Ethiopia in the their support for the campaign against late 1970s to escape dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam’s ‘Red Terror’ campaign family violence in the City of Casey. Representatives from the Oromo and the violence that ensued. Mr Kufi, a primary school teacher Community Association in Victoria gathered at the council’s Narre Warren in Ethiopia who was forced to flee chambers on Saturday night to hold a the country with his wife and niece in landmark event, highlighting the con- 1987, said many Oromo people had tribution of Oromo women to society, their traditional values distorted while in recognition of the City of Casey’s confined to a refugee camp as he was, Challenge Family Violence campaign and cited respect for women as a culand Refugee Week. tural necessity that often needed to be More than 100 people - two thirds re-emphasised. of them men - attended the inaugu“That is a focus, when they (Oromo ral conference, organised by Oromo people) lived in refugee camps somevolunteer co-ordinator and Challenge times they lose respect for culture and mentor Marama Kufi, to discuss female empowerment, the need for respectful are reorientated with different culrelationships between men and women tures,” he said. “When people run away because of and the Oromo community’s ongoing war they feel disgraced. campaign for equality. “The younger generation is in a difRenowned Oromo and women’s rights advocates Likkee Gose and Sinke ferent corner, there’s always a gap here Wesho, who were once refugees, were with young people who have grown keynote speakers at Saturday’s event. up in Australia and getting them to “It’s the first time this was held in understand issues about the Oromo the City of Casey, and also the first time community, a very peaceful commuwe brought in the Challenge Family nity.” Violence ideas, relating it to our culture Mr Kufi said it was this concern for and how to maintain respect for genchildren’s safety going forward that der,” Mr Kufi said. saw the Victorian Oromo community “We had the opportunity of using first engage with the Challenge FamRefugee Week and reorganising the ily Violence campaign 12 months ago, event to include the family violence with their leaders attending various messages as well. roundtable discussions on the issue “Our Oromo community has its own cultural background, putting a focus on since. Challenge Family Violence is a OVER 200 USED TO CHOOSE respecting womenCARS and gender, so we FROM need to re-exercise this traditional re- three-year partnership project between the three local governments of Casey, spect into the broader community.” The Oromo people are an ethnic Cardinia Shire and Greater Dandenong $6,990 inhabiting $7,990 $12,990 $15,990 Ke- $16,990 and funded by the Department of Jusgroup Ethiopia, northern nya and parts of Somalia in the Horn tice to address the high rates of genof Africa. dered violence in the region.