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Welcome from the NWS President

Dear NWS 2010 Participants and Partners,

We are pleased to welcome you to the event not to be missed: The 4th annual Namibian Women Summit, scheduled for the 11th, 12th and 13th of August 2010. Our theme this year is WOMEN in a Changing World. We will be discussing the conditions in which we strive to build careers, feed our families and lead private lives. I trust that this Summit will once again provide a fruitful platform where we can support each other to tailor strategies that are suitable for us as individuals and as Namibian women facing a challenging future where we are expected to take a more active role in the economic development of our country.

Put together with support from our partners, some of the programme highlights this year include an information-sharing panel discussion with our strategic ministries, more international speakers joining us, and a women directors training just before the Summit. There will also be a possibility for free cancer testing. On the fun side, brace yourself for an international award-winning theatre play You Strike the Woman, you Strike the Rock.

This year is a great milestone for NWS. Ever since the first Summit in 2007, the Summit participants have been requesting us to do more capacity building: More activities for women in various sectors, more activities in all the regions of Namibia, and more activities between the annual summits. The requested interventions are more extensive and sustained than what an annual summit organised by an informal body can ever be. This is a big credit to those who pioneered the NWS. It proves that they have done an excellent job and the beneficiaries would like a more permanent organisation. We have taken our cue from these requests, deliberated on them intensely and registered a non-governmental organisation, which can organise the summits and take on the increased work load. The new organisation, called House of Women (HOW), is introduced on this website, and it will be launched in this year's Summit. The purpose, vision, values, functions and strategy of HOW were agreed by NWS staff and roundtablers together.

Once again, a very warm welcome to the Namibian Women Summit 2010. Let us inspire each other, share best practices and learn from each other. We can prove that Namibia will be a better Namibia when women are empowered and they take their rightful places as we all strive for attaining Vision 2030 and the Millennium Development Goals.

Anne Thandeka Gebhardt
President, Namibian Women Summit

• 2010-08-02 17:53:00 / Welcome from the NWS President

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