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  • Home
  • Our Story
    • Our History
    • Our Vision and Mission
    • Annual General Meetings
  • Our team
    • Our Staff
    • Board of Management
    • Project Leaders
    • Become Involved
  • Services
    • Referrals
    • Women's Leadership Courses >
      • 2014
      • 2013 >
        • Brimbank Women's Leadership Course
        • Maribyrnong Women's Leadership Course
    • Women's Power Forum >
      • Policy and Advocacy
      • Women's Future Forum
      • Young Girl's Future Forum
  • Programs
    • Women Building Bridges >
      • Women's Friendship Network
    • Senior Women Champions
    • Community Arts
  • Events
    • Mosaic Festival >
      • Mosaic Festival 2016
      • Mosaic Festival 2015
      • Mosaic Festival 2014
      • Mosaic Festival 2013
    • Gallery >
      • Mosaic Festival >
        • 2015 >
          • Andrew Coulter
          • VIRWC Photo Booth
        • 2014
        • 2013
      • Women's Friendship Cafe's
      • Women's Leadership Training >
        • 2014 >
          • Frankston Women's Leadership Course
          • Westall Primary School & Kingston Council
        • 2013
      • VIRWC AGM PHOTOS >
        • AGM 2010
    • Media Coverage
  • Contact Us

Our History

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History of the VIRWC In 1994, an assembly of 200 immigrant women at a conference entitled "Voicing our Diversity" at La Trobe University Abbotsford Campus, mandated an interim committee to work towards setting up a statewide advocacy body that would take up issues that specifically concern immigrant and refugee women.

The call was finally realised by a group of 25 women who met on July 23, 1997, and formally set up the Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Women's Coalition (VIRWC) by approving its constitution and electing four interim office holders prior to its first annual general meeting.

The VIRWC held its first AGM on November 26, 1998, attended by more than a hundred women representing many cultures. A Committee of Management comprising 11 women was elected.

Since then, the VIRWC has grown substantially and includes a variety of organisations and individual members and has completed many exciting and innovative projects and initiatives.


HISTORY OF OUR LOGO

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    Our original logo was designed by Marriet Perrinjaquet.

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Our current logo was designed by Maureen Whitaker in November 2004. Maureen was invited to create an image that was fresh, innovative and inspiring, using the colours orange (for harmony and diversity) and purple (for women). Her design, a woman in front of a globe, reaching for a star, encourages all women to think of the potential they bring from anywhere in the world.

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