Short Presentation of Activities, Agreements and Participants Concerning

Short presentation of activities, agreements and participants concerning

the IFT-I-IN Daphne Project - 1st of October 2005

The Daphne Project IFT-I-IN is founded by the Somali Women Organisation in Denmark (SWOD) represented by chairman Ambara Hashi Nur.

The Daphne Project IFT-I-IN has as its objective to empower ethnic women, promote their health and thereby prevent FGM and other lifestyle-related diseases. The project aims to promote the women’s knowledge, attitudes and capability to make radical changes in their life-conditions thereby promoting “equality in health” among ethnic women in Europe.

Special empowerment tools such as Forum-theatre, drama, music and comics are used in order to reach the beneficiaries and the public in new ways. Performers and “project ambassadors” will be ethnic women with different stories of life and of different age and nationality.

The IFT-IN-IN project is formed as a close cooperation between the Danish Steering Organisation and trans-national partners from ITN (UK) and FSAN (NL)

The project will be running over the next two years - from June 2005 till June 2007 and is planned to close with a major conference in DK including all partners and participants.

Organisation

The project is run by Project Coordinator, Ambara Hashi Nur, assisted by Lotte Jensen.

National Steering Committee for IFT I IN

Project-coordinator:

Ambara Hashi Nur, Chairman, The Somali Women Association in Denmark

Project-assistant:

Lotte Jensen

Inge Wittrup, Coordinator, The County of Aarhus

Cristine Kousholt, The Municipality of Århus, Health Committee

Pia Mortensen, Local Community worker, Trivselshuset

Roda Ahmed, Vice Chairman of The Somali Women Association in Denmark

Ali Nuur, Consultant

Selma Rahamatu Larijeg (Ghana)

Supervisor

Sonja Mikkelsen, URBAN Sekretariatet

Trans-national partners

Islington Training Network

Toyin Fagbemi, UK Project Coordinator

Federation og Somali Associations in Netherlands

Zahra S. Naleie, Dutch Coordinator

Others involved with the project

Lone Hvidman, gynaecologist, Skejby Sygehus

Asha Khadar Hassan

Barlin Ahmed Guleed

Haweeya Farah Hirad

Dahabo Husseen

Selma Aziisza (Libanon)

Further participants in the project:

Please see enclosed list’s of participants and list over woman associations in Århus

Time Table

Spring 2005:Somali Women Organisation in Denmark (SWOD) attends the EU Daphne Program with a health-related program named IFT-I-IN.

The project is carried out in collaboration with trans-national partners from Federation of Somali Associations in the Netherlands (FSAN) and Islington Training Network (ITN) in the UK.

April 2005:Different roles in regard to work and responsibility are defined more closely.

Maj 2005:The Steering Committee is approved with the following responsibilities:

• Supervise and make sure that the project progress according to the application and other general guidelines laid down by the commission.
• Affiliate/hire independent contractors to the project after recommendation from the projectcoordinator and projectassistant.
• Participate in the final evaluation.
• Participate in the knowledgearrangement in the national and transnational networks.
• Decisions are taken on the basis of normal democratic principles.

June 2005:Open women’s meeting. FGM and health related problems is discussed between a group of ethnic women, members of the Steering Committee, gynaecologists and social workers. See the invitation and pictures here ! LINK

Web-page is constructed by Ali Nur. The page will be up-dated and enlarged as the project develops.

Ambara Hashi Nuur participated in the Daphne Conference in Brussels and in a meeting in EuroNet also in Brussels.

Contract is made with the project assistant Lotte Jensen

August 2005: Trans-national meeting with the UK and NL partners. Also participates Maryam Mursal, who is elected to train and inspire the performing women’s group.

Planning working methods and ways of recruitment.

Discussions on performance places, numbers of rehearsals, audience, time schedules, transportation cost, external performance instructors e.g.

The comic strip is discussed considering language, printing, art work and time schedules. The comic strip project follows the group performances and will be developed later on (summer/autumn 2006)

Women’s conference arranged by SWOD.

Special appearance by the Major of Aarhus, Louise Gade.

The conference aims to discuss work-related questions concerning ethnic women in Denmark.

Ambara Hashi Nur introduces the Daphne-project including a minor discussion on health-related problems and FGM.

The conference has an exceptionally high number of participants and is followed by a wide discussion. (Se more about the conference, pictures and the participants list) LINK!

Contract is made with Consultant Ali Nuur.

September 2005:The trans-national partners sign in the project. Recruitment work is started in DK, UK and NL.

SWOD becomes a partner of a German Daphne-project aimed to enlighten on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The training "Join The Net II – Dissemination of material for education and training on psychological symptoms caused by violence" is aimed at social workers, teachers, educators and medical professionals.

The project has started 1st of April 2005 and will end the 31st of March 2006. Project partners come from Estonia, Portugal, Denmark and Austria. Se more here: LINK!

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