Kalemat

Tuesdays 6.30 - 7pm

Australian Arabic women’s voices are seldom heard in the mainstream media or get equal voice in their community media to focus on women's issues. Much of the media’s attention seems to focus on sensationalist stories associated with Arabic women’s headdress. Yet there is great diversity, talent, abilities and achievements amongst Arabic women which remain completely obscure. On the other hand Arabic women also face numerous barriers to participation and inclusion in Australian society in general and their stories never reach the public domain.

Kalemat program promises to be a great avenue for expressing Australian Arabic women’s opinions, views, struggles, challenges and triumphs. It will be in almost bilingual interactive format offering both Arabic speaking and English audiences the opportunity to hear and participate in the program.

Kalemat program represent the newly established foundation, the Australian Arab Women’s Foundations (AAWF Inc). The Australian Arab Women’s Foundation (AAWF Inc) is a non-religious, non-sectarian and non-political organisation.

AAWF goals are:
1.    to promote the interests of Australian women of Arabic origin and to influence policy to further those interests;
2.    to remove barriers and increase opportunities for the advancement of Australian women of Arabic origin;
3.    to support Australian women of Arabic origin by means of providing opportunities for the exchange of ideas by creating and encouraging connections between Australian women of Arabic origin and the wider social and business community to provide mentoring, interaction, training, understanding and opportunity;
4.    to sponsor and support developmental activities that may assist Australian women of Arabic origin;
5.    to act in conjunction or affiliate with or to appoint representatives to any association or organisation to further the objectives or the interests of Australian women of Arabic origin;
6.    to advance the study and gathering of evidence through research to promote the understanding of issues concerning Australian women of Arabic origin;
7.    to do all such things as are incidental or conducive to the attainments of the above objectives.

We look forward to your support, for more information you can contact:
The program coordinator: