'Her Story' - Celebrating International Women's Day and Women's History Month

Join us online as we celebrate International Women’s Day and Women's History Month, highlighting the achievements of the women we work with - with special guest Cllr Sharon Thompson.

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SAATHI HOUSE & LEGACY WM PRESENT 'HER STORY' - AN INTERNATIONAL WOMXN’S DAY AND WOMXN’S HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION

FRIDAY 12 MARCH 2021 / 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM / ONLINE

PROGRAMME:

[START - 4pm SHARP]

4:00pm | WELCOME + HOUSE RULES

Mashkura Begum, Chair of Trustees at Saathi House

Apsana Khatun, Health and Wellbeing Facilitator at Legacy WM

4.10pm | IWD VIDEO PRESENTATION

International Womxn’s Day visual tribute to Maya Angelou

4.15pm | #CHOOSETOCHALLENGE

Charlene Carter-James to reflect on this year’s IWD theme and introduce #ChooseToChallenge pledges from select women in attendance

4.25pm | GUEST SPEAKER

Cllr Sharon Thompson, Birmingham City Council cabinet member, shares her story and what female empowerment means to her

4.40pm | EAT, WALK, LEARN

Dawn Carr and Vanessa Kelly present the ‘Eat, Walk, Learn’ initiative, in partnership with 2MuchPassionCIC and Black Heritage Walks Networx

4.45pm | ‘HER STORY’

Shamsun Choudhury introduces women who use Legacy WM and Saathi House services to share their stories.

4.55pm | BICYCLE PROJECT

Meena Bibi shares Legacy WM and Saathi House’s joint cycling project for women

5.00pm | SAATHI HOUSE MURAL

Charlene Carter-James shares how you can be involved in Saathi House’s new community art mural and related workshops

5.05pm | OPEN FLOOR (OVERFLOW)

Wind down with any general contributions or questions, with overflow time for anyone happy to stay a little longer.

[5.15pm - CLOSE]

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NOTES:

* Please arrive early to this event so we may start promptly. The Zoom room will be open to public 5 minutes before start time of 4:00pm

* This open event is open to all gender identities to celebrate IWD

* You may share this event link with friends who would like to join us

* This event will be recorded but nothing will be shared online or publicly without consent

* There will be time at the end of the event where the session will open to the floor for contributions, with overflow time for flexibility.

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SOCIAL MEDIA:

PLEASE FOLLOW AND TAG THE FOLLOWING ACCOUNTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA IN RELATION TO THIS EVENT:

Saathi House | @SaathiHouse (Twitter/Facebook/Instagram)

Legacy WM | @LegacyWM1 (Twitter), LegacyWM (Facebook), LegacyWestMidlands (Instagram)

Sharon Thompson | @Ms_SThompson (Twitter), iam_sharonthompson (Instagram)

EVENT HASHTAGS: #IWD2021 #CHOOSETOCHALLENGE #HERSTORY

WEBSITES: www.saathihouse.org | www.legacy-wm.org

Please register on this page for event Zoom link or email info@saathihouse.org. Thank you.

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