COMMON CAUSES UK, Platform of the Congolese women in United Kingdom
In collaboration with Congolese Safeguarding Action Group, Mabe ya Mbila, LAHP and CORECOG
Cordially Invites:
(Children, adolescents, young and mature adults)
Date:5th of July 2008
Time:3pm -8pm
Place: The Hub Community Centre
Star Lane, Canning town, London E16 4PZ
(Off Hermit Road, near Barking Road)
Buses: 69,330, 115,474, 276
Underground/Train: Canning Town and Plaistow Stations
We will hold the following activities:
History of the D.R.Congo for children /youths
Awareness Raising on Immigration laws
A presentation of a video about the condition women in RDC
Health awareness: Chlamydia
Refreshments will be available.
Info: e-mail to commoncauseuk@hotmail.co.uk.
Tel: 07950131557 (Marie-Jeanne) 07980997569 (Joséphine) and 07939822625 (Marie-claire)
Lilianne 07943080877, Mado 07944393896
PROGRAM OF THE DAY
3.00 – 4.00 pm: Registration and Refreshments
4.10 pm: Welcome and Introduction by COMMON CAUSE UK Chair Lady
4.20 pm: UK Congolese Safeguarding Action Group by Mr. Romain Matondo
4.50pm: D.R.Congo’s history and its natural resources by Mr. Koko Kalambayi
5.30pm: UK Immigration law by Ms Josee Kalanda
6.00 pm: Discussion, short break (Short Video projection and refreshments)
6.30 pm: Health awareness (Chlamydia) by Ms Kwenga Zaya
7.00pm: The situation of Women in the D.R.Congo by Ms Marie Louise Pambu
7.30 pm: Discussion and refreshments
8.00 pm: End
Commonwealth Team to observe Local Elections in Sierra Leone
Former Belize Minister to lead Team
A Commonwealth Expert Team will observe the 5 July 2008 local elections in Sierra Leone, Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma announced today.
Mr Sharma said that the Team of four, supported by a three-person staff team, will be led by Ambassador Dolores Balderamos Garcia, Former Minister of Human Development, Women and Civil Society of Belize. The Expert Team is jointly organised by the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF).
The Team which arrived in Sierra Leone on 27 June will remain in the West African country until 12 July 2008. It has been constituted at the invitation of the Independent Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone.
The full composition of the Commonwealth Expert Team is:
Ambassador Dolores Balderamos-Garcia, Former Minister of Human Development, Women and Civil Society, Belize
Mr Vuyo Mlokoti, Chairperson, Municipal Demarcation Board, South Africa
Mr Milton Brown, Mayor of Clarendon and Chairman of the Association of Local Government Authorities, Jamaica
Mr Kanor Sanakey, Executive Council Member of NALAG and Presiding Member of Dangme East District Assembly.
