Latina Disabled Women Make Progress
Indigenous Disabled Women Start Restaurant in Oaxaca, Mexico
The Women's International Leadership Institute (WILI) will be financially supporting an AMUDO (The Association of Women with Disabilities in Oaxaca) economic development project in Oaxaca, Mexico. AMUDO is helping indigenous women with disabilities start up a restaurant in that city which will employ other women with disabilities in various positions, from administration to food preparation and cleanup. WILI will be providing the funds to buy kitchen equipment for the restaurant and aid in training the workers in restaurant management skills and work habits.
WILI is an organization that strives "to promote women's leadership potential, employment and economic self-sufficiency through educational programming, skill-building and charitable acts." They focus on women in poverty who do not have the education or skills necessary to improve their employment situation on their own.
Please visit their website for more information on how to contact WILI, their fundraising efforts, and the projects that they are involved in. Their website is also available in Spanish at http://www.wili.org/espanol/index.html.
http://www.wili.org/
Equal Opportunities Organization in Panama Names Woman of the Year
The Panamanian Association of Business Executives and their commission on Equal Business Opportunities have named Fanny H. Wong Chen their "Highlighted Woman of the Year". This award is in its third year. Wong is the Sales Supervisor at the Continental Travel Agency in addition to being a leader in many disability organizations in the region, including serving as a representative of Panama for the International Commission of Technology and Accessibility and supporting advisor to the National Directorship of Persons with Disabilities of the Ministry of Youth, Women, Children, and the family.
This award is targeted towards those women who display great personal and professional trajectory and serve as an example to others. It is also meant to encourage more women to participate in the labor market, including those with disabilities.
Spanish Women with Disabilities publish manifesto on International Women's Day
The Women's Commission of the Spanish Committee of Representatives of People with Disabilities (CERMI) celebrated the International Day of Women (March 8) by publishing a manifesto. This manifesto demands gender equal efforts to prevent discrimination against people with disabilities. In essence, they would like "equal politics for the social participation, personal and collective development of women with disabilities" in Spain. This was in an effort to draw attention to the double discrimination that Spanish women with disabilities live with each day, due to gender and to disability.
For more information on the text of this manifesto, see Disnnet Press (From Bogotá Colombia), number 425 (March 8, 2002), which was also the source for the above news bit.
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