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FROK AGM, afternoon of 28th May in York. Business meeting from 1.45 to 2.15 (tea and biscuits from 1.30). Guest speaker at 2.30 – Emily Beasley ‘Climate Change: Its impact on women and the development of solutions by and for women and their communities’. Contact us on frok.events@gmail.com for details of how to register.
Recording of event from Sunday 6th March now available. The work of Khwendo Kor was the focus of an online event called ‘Celebrating Women’s Empowerment and Creativity’ as part of the MACFEST Muslim Women’s International Festival (https://macfest.org.uk). It looked at the ways in which KK supports rural women in developing and maintaining their handicraft skills in, and marketing of, mazri goods, embroidery and more as part of their mission to enable women to live with dignity and self-reliance.
You can watch the whole event on facebook at https://fb.watch/bWKlcs-12T/
or on you-tube at https://youtu.be/UFmTT-Ps-4k
Or you can watch the film alone (11 mins) on https://youtu.be/iKbguQKIuTM
York members of FROK raised £1,000 in their events as part of York International Women’s Week. Thank you!
We held a fascinating online event from 1-3pm on Saturday 20th November entitled ‘Women. Education and Pakistan: a conversation with Qaisra Shahraz followed by a conversation with Khwendo Kor staff’. Almost 40 people attended from around the world. There is a report of it in our newsletter (No 2 2021) on our publications page. Thanks to all who took part!
We’re pleased to welcome a new Trustee, Dr Sundus Yahya. Read about her on the FROK Trustees page.
The FROK AGM took place on 27th June. The 2020-2021 Annual Report is also now available on the Publications page.
We recently held two very successful events as part of York International Women’s Week 2021. We have now launched the film that we made jointly with Khwendo Kor – FILM AND FOOD WITH ‘FROK’ – SHARING WOMEN’S PANDEMIC EXPERIENCES FROM YORK AND NW PAKISTAN.
It is publicly available on you-tube at https://youtu.be/wGWw_8Y9mBw
Don’t forget to turn on subtitles in the icon at the bottom of the screen
FROK is delighted to announce that Khwendo Kor has now been granted a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Economic Affairs Division of the Government of Pakistan. This is a huge achievement. Congratulations to KK for all their hard work and perseverance!
FROK’s online autumn talk: ‘Human Writes: Pakistani Women’s Writing’ took place from 2-3pm (GMT) Saturday 14th Nov. For a report on it, please see our latest Newsletter (No 2 2020) under Publications.
Our 2019-20 Annual Report and our latest Newsletter are available on our Publications Page
Our COVID-19 Appeal is now closed having raised £5,088. Every penny goes straight to KK to support their humanitarian efforts. Thank you for all who donated.
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