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Friday, August 15, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 72
Auckland Regional Migrant Services in partnership with Community Expression is running a new and unique programme for migrant women in the North Shore, which focuses on helping migrant women find their voice and identity in New Zealand and become fully connected and participatory in their local communities.
Social change advocate Dheepa Nedungat, founder of Community Expression, will hold three-sessions for a small group of women who have found it difficult to settle in to their new lives.
The programme, funded by the Upper Harbour Local Board, will see the group explore barriers to self-expression to become empowered and connected to their communities, while also building new relationships with other migrant women.
During the three sessions, women will explore their identities through sharing stories, identify their challenges, design strategies and actions to address those challenges and share their experiences of addressing those challenges, while setting up process to continue to support each other.
The programme will be in English and will take place over three sessions on Wednesdays 11, 18 and 25 May.
More workshops will be held in the Papakura area, thanks to Papakura Local Board funding.
This programme was piloted in September last year and received glowing feedback and calls to run more groups.
Many of the women who took part in the pilot have continued to meet.
Nedungat, the founder of the Centre for Community Expression, an experiential education provider, is an experienced facilitator and mentor. She says: “Women’s discussion groups offer a truly transformative medium where women can feel companioned in their quest toward self-expression”.
ARMS Regional Communications Manager Chinwe Akomah, who is organizing the workshop with Nedungat, adds: “One of the key things we, at ARMS, are trying to address is the social and emotional isolation of women. Isolated migrant women often experience extreme loneliness, face cultural barriers and are coping with a host of other issues as both a result and a cause of isolation. We hope this workshop will support migrant women in overcoming these barriers and feel more integrated, empowered and secure in Auckland.”
For more information or to register your place, please contact Chinwe on 09 625 3095 or email chinwea@arms-mrc.org.nz
Auckland Regional Migrant Services in partnership with Community Expression is running a new and unique programme for migrant women in the North Shore, which focuses on helping migrant women find their voice and identity in New Zealand and become fully connected and participatory in their local...
Auckland Regional Migrant Services in partnership with Community Expression is running a new and unique programme for migrant women in the North Shore, which focuses on helping migrant women find their voice and identity in New Zealand and become fully connected and participatory in their local communities.
Social change advocate Dheepa Nedungat, founder of Community Expression, will hold three-sessions for a small group of women who have found it difficult to settle in to their new lives.
The programme, funded by the Upper Harbour Local Board, will see the group explore barriers to self-expression to become empowered and connected to their communities, while also building new relationships with other migrant women.
During the three sessions, women will explore their identities through sharing stories, identify their challenges, design strategies and actions to address those challenges and share their experiences of addressing those challenges, while setting up process to continue to support each other.
The programme will be in English and will take place over three sessions on Wednesdays 11, 18 and 25 May.
More workshops will be held in the Papakura area, thanks to Papakura Local Board funding.
This programme was piloted in September last year and received glowing feedback and calls to run more groups.
Many of the women who took part in the pilot have continued to meet.
Nedungat, the founder of the Centre for Community Expression, an experiential education provider, is an experienced facilitator and mentor. She says: “Women’s discussion groups offer a truly transformative medium where women can feel companioned in their quest toward self-expression”.
ARMS Regional Communications Manager Chinwe Akomah, who is organizing the workshop with Nedungat, adds: “One of the key things we, at ARMS, are trying to address is the social and emotional isolation of women. Isolated migrant women often experience extreme loneliness, face cultural barriers and are coping with a host of other issues as both a result and a cause of isolation. We hope this workshop will support migrant women in overcoming these barriers and feel more integrated, empowered and secure in Auckland.”
For more information or to register your place, please contact Chinwe on 09 625 3095 or email chinwea@arms-mrc.org.nz
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