Women’s Voices of Africa – World Food Festival 18th February 2024
I am very honoured to be invited to the Women’s Voices for Africa World Food Festival and to see everyone here this afternoon. As some of you will know I was very pleased to be able to attend their last event celebrating Black History Month in October, where I met some very important women who have done much to support our local community and internationally. So there, I’m of course talking about Fatou Bensouda, the Gambian lawyer, High Commissioner and former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Fatou Bensouda was the first woman and first African to assume the role – she certainly proves what we as women can achieve and a great role model. But I don’t want to forget all those women who are working
tirelessly, usually unsung to support our own community. I can say it was my great pleasure to meet Dulce Lewcock two years ago at Alliance Francaise and I’m very pleased we are now in her and WV4A diary of events in the City. (The fact you have your own acronym means you have certainly arrived and are recognised as a community group!) Cambridge City is wonderful and diverse community with highly talented and motivated individuals from across the world working in the NHS, care industry life sciences, IT, teachers and researchers who are so important to sustaining our society and Cambridge.
I’ve met new business owners and people setting up their own community groups and foundations (including WV4A and the Lisha Foundation). So today, it is really pleasing to see that we have stalls and food from across the world selling delicious food and a range of crafts and celebrating our diversity and our similarities. We are all part of Cambridge. I have narrowly avoided a ‘Vicar of Dibley’ day with fundraising lunches in Wisbech and Arbury, but supporting my local community does win out and I’m hoping to try out some of the food.
I understand that we are going to highlight some of those talented people and celebrate their achievements by recognizing their contributions to the Women’s Voices of Africa for the last five years and to our Cambridge community and to the United Kingdom. This Certificate of Appreciation is a way of saying thank you to some of those people who are making a real difference to people’s lives in our community. We really value you – I really value you.
Bridging Diversity Technology and Innovation, October 2022
Welcome to the Bridging Diversity Technology and Innovation, the first international conference to be organised by Cambridge-based Women’s Voices for Africa in the UK (WV4A). Cambridge is well known as a centre for excellence in education, innovation and research. Innovation is about the application of new ideas, discoveries and inventions. The innovative and entrepreneurial spirit of the members of the University of Cambridge is enshrined in the University’s mission statement to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. The foundation for innovation is the steady supply of excellent ideas, of which there is an abundance in Cambridge, including large Information Technology and Biomedical Science business sectors and a second expanding university, Anglia Ruskin University. Ingenuity and creativity, alongside the fundamental research which underpins these ideas and combined with the constant exchange of ideas between academics and companies, governments and NGOs has been the recipe for this success. Cambridge has long had a strong connection with the African continent, those who come to the city from African countries to study and work each year. I look forward to welcoming delegates to our special city for this conference being held on 1 October 2022.
We Stand with Albinos in Africa June 2018
Welcome to We Stand with Albinos in Africa, the first international conference to be organised by Cambridge-based Women’s Voices for Africa in the UK (WV4A).
Nine out of ten albinos in Africa die before they reach 40 years old. We Stand with Albinos in Africa aims to increase awareness of, and raise funds for, African Albinos. The event will also facilitate greater understanding of the cultures of participants and provide business networking opportunities.
Cambridge is well known as a centre for excellence in education, innovation and research. Innovation is about the application of new ideas, discoveries and inventions. The innovative and entrepreneurial spirit of the members of the University of Cambridge is enshrined in the University’s mission statement to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. The foundation for innovation is the steady supply of excellent ideas, of which there is an abundance at Cambridge. Ingenuity and creativity, alongside the fundamental research which underpins these ideas and combined with the constant exchange of ideas between academics and companies, governments and NGOs has been the recipe for this success.
Cambridge has long had a strong connection with the African continent, boosted by the university’s Centre of African Studies and those who come to the city from African countries to study and work each year. This makes the city an obvious centre to host We Stand with Albinos in Africa and I look forward to welcoming delegates to our special city for this conference being held on 16th June 2018.
Empowering women and young people’s lives, through respect, discussions, and movement of structured information, in our outcome; to achieve excellence for all.
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