Learning together

Learning Together – An educational manual for workers on flower and vegetable export farms of East/South Africa
A new publication from Women Working Worldwide is now available in either hardcopy or pdf.  This manual was produced by Women Working Worldwide partners with the aim of encouraging a greater understanding among workers on key issues and provide a toolkit to enable workers to develop action plans that will foster greater organisation and collaboration to improve their situation and have their rights to a decent working life respected.  If you would like a copy, check their website for details > http://women-ww.org/index.php/latest-news

Wai Yin Chinese Women Society – new website

Launched just before Christmas, this is a major overhaul for Wai Yin’s website, to streamline it, simplify it, and make it easier to maintain and keep up to date.  As an organisation that is constantly changing, it needs to be easy to change the structure and add new sections. Staff also want to be able to update front page news items, and add training courses quickly and painlessly, and so we’ve used the facility to login to the website from the front to edit some of the areas with a reasonably straightforward email-like editor.

Why Joomla 1.7 for this website? I started out choosing (the short-lived) Joomla 1.6 for this project, because of the added functionality for user and permissions management.  It was soon upgraded, and I’m looking forward to the ability to keep the Joomla software up-to-date much more smoothly, and also watching developments in multi-langauge capabilities.

Have a look > Wai Yin Chinese Women Society

New website – Global Labour Institute UK

Straightforward new WordPress site for Global Labour Institute UK, one of a trio of organisations that make up the Global Labour Network.  One aspect of the site is the development of a reliable mailing list, so that subscribers can be informed by email whenever an article or news item is posted to the website that is of special interest.

GLI UK develop and encourage education, capacity-building and research on international labour movement development, gender policy and organising strategies.

Womens Domestic Abuse Helpline – volunteers and fundraising

Greater Manchester Womens Domestic Abuse Helpline is recruiting volunteers (pdf).

Also the Marple (Stockport) based charity shop ‘Raising Hope’ is making a donation to the Helpline, based on sales throughout September.  If you happen to be in Marple, donate something and buy something!

If you would like to help them directly, check the websites: Independent Choices, End the Fear and their Facebook page.

Women Working Worldwide website updates and newsletter

Women Working Worldwide have published their Summer 2011 Newsletter.  Articles in this edition include information about:

• the start of a new three year project focusing on improving the workplace for women garment workers
• a special report on Ugandan women workers in words and pictures
• a summary of a piece of research carried out by Liz Parker on the development and impact of productivity initiatives on wages and working conditions.

Get your copy:  Summer 2011 Newlsetter (pdf)

We’ve also updated the website to add final reports on the Horticulture Project from their project partners in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda.