We were extremely privileged to have Joyce Mungherera - General Secretary of YWCA Uganda (retired) visit the YWCA Auckland office with her husband Seth and daughter Dr Jennifer Mungherera (Member - YWCA Auckland).
Joyce did incredible work with the YWCA in Uganda, spanning over 40 years. Her grass roots and rural projects did much to empower women in Uganda and apparently many politicians credit their political careers to the starts they made with the YWCA. Joyce has also won a major international award for her work with the World Hunger Project, an awa.
One of the special things about the YWCA is the international family aspect and we get to meet women like Joyce.
The YWCA in Uganda has 1.5 million members!
Thank you for visiting us and making the connection. And now that Joyce knows her daughter Jennifer doesn’t live too far away from us, we know Jennifer will be ‘encouraged’ to become a part of the YWCA Auckland family.
After three years with the YWCA Auckland, Tilda Bostwick, our extremely hard-working Marketing and Fundraising Manager has moved on and is having a well earned break while identifying what her next big thing will be.
In the interim, and whilst we await the New Year to begin recruiting to replace Tilda, we welcome the super-speedy Suzanne McNicol who is contracting to us for 2 days per week.
New Zealand is heading at high speed into this year’s general election. Its the way to have your say about how the country is run and to future proof our next generations.
It’s your government, it’s your country, it’s your right to choose how this country will be.
If you haven’t enrolled to vote you can still do so. Go to the website: www.elections.org.nz. (Remember YOU MUST ENROL if you are qualified to do so).
The YWCA Auckland is now at 21 Scanlan St in Grey Lynn. We have a large, versatile open plan space and we have 50 sq. m. to lease to an organisation which aligns with our values and principles.
Along with the 50 sq. m. is shared use of kitchen facilities, storage and large meeting room/workshop spaces + secure underground carparking.
Scanlan St is handily located to the CBD, all major motorway on-ramps, bus stops on Great North Road and very near Ponsonby Road. We also have fantastic neighbours and surrounding businesses.
The team at the YWCA are extremely hard-working but also very easy going and fun is one of our philosophies!
For further enquiries in the first instance please contact our Finance Manager:
One of our Future Leader Mentors, well known Journalist and Media Trainer Janet Wilson, is giving us half a day of her time this morning to train some of us in working with the Media.
Thank you Janet - you already do so much as Mentor, and we really appreciate this further investment you are making with the YWCA Auckland and these are skills we will all benefit from.
All of our Future Leaders at Tamaki have had an incredible year and this was so evident last night at the Prize-giving. Amazing for us after watching these young women grow and develop with us and now to see them achieving so highly.
Congratulations to you all from the YWCA Auckland - we are so proud of you all!
Alvina Pau’uvale
1st Mathematics w Calculus
1st Biology
1st Chemistry
1st Physics
1st History
Churchill Memorial Cup for Science
Bradley Cup for all round excellance
Head Girl’s cup
Tamaki College Dux
Pacific Medical Association – health Care Heroes Award
Tamaki College Science Scholarship
University of Auckland Jubilee Scholarship
Stephanie Tafea
Prize for Mathematics
Certificate of Merit in Performing Arts
The Martin Clark Cup for outstanding musical performance
Ashleigh Palalagi
The Martin Clark Cup for outstanding musical performance
Bena Kini, one of our YWCA Future Leaders coordinator attended the school prizegiving last night where was really proud to see ‘our’ Future Leaders recognised with awards:
Brooke Mehau – 1st in Geography
Luseane Kaumeafaiva – 1st in Tongan Language
Lania Seturo – Merit in Geography
and Ashlee Vaisima won the YWCA Award for 2011.
Congratulations to you all, these are fantastic achievements.
