Monday 12th March 2018 at 5pm Large Seminar room Iontas Building, North Campus. Maynooth University
Salome Mbugua, born in Kenya, has been living in Ireland for over 21 years. She has spent over two decades working with women and children from countries where war and armed conflict has taken place.
In 2016, Mbugua produced a report – ‘Healing the Wounds of War’ – narratives of over 100 of these women, who are now living in Ireland, the first time such stories have been recorded.
Mbugua says she will never forget their experiences: “They are horrifying stories. I had never heard stories of women who had experienced so much. I had previously worked in Kenya and Uganda, but the stories I heard from the women who had come here, who were running away from such conflict and war, and how it had impacted on their lives: they are still haunted by what has happened to them.”
Book HERE
See RTE documentary here
Speakers
Salome Mbugua is founder and president of AkiDwA - a national network of migrant women living in Ireland. The organisation was established in 2001 by a group of African women to address, isolation, racism and Gender Based Violence that the women were experiencing at the time. She is the head of mission with the. Wezesha-African Diaspora-led development Organization.
Egide Dhala co-founder and director of African Diaspora-led development body Wezesha.