The Whole World Women Association

The Whole World Women Association is a multicultural non-profit organisation based in Cape Town. Some South African women who had experienced first-hand, the need for more comprehensive refugee services decided to join a group of remarkable refugee women to raise awareness about the refugee situation. We spoke to Mary Tal, who is the founder of Whole World Women Association.

Exile is not an easy thing to endure for anyone and it's particularly tough to go through it when you are a gentle sex. When it comes to refugee, women are the most vulnerable people indeed, they face abuse, rape, exclusion and many others challenges.

When something happens to them in a foreign country, they have no one to speak to immediately. Many barriers restrain them from speaking up, fear of being deported, lack of being able to speak the local language, not knowing where to go...

In South Africa, according to Mary, legal documentation for refugee seekers is quite a struggle. A female refugee can see her application being cancelled when her husband dies and asked to leave the country with her children, a refugee child can be excluded from school because of the lack of documentation.

The Whole World Women Association gives a platform to not only foreign refugee women, but to all female in general regardless of where they come from, a platform where they speak up, they share their stories to one another in order to grow themselves, to heal their souls and to fight the social injustices they face.

They will be having a trauma- dealing session with International Women Organisation from San Francisco, USA in June. Raped women, females who saw their husbands and children being killed need to be taught how to deal with grief and they need to be empowered, to learn to articulate their concerns when something happened to them.

For more information contact:
Address: Community house (Salt River)
Tel: 021 448 5022
Web: WWW. association.org

                                            By: Panphil Tshisumpa

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