· Self-help information
to enable women and children with disabilities to get benefits,
homecare, health care, equipment, transport, training and other
resources – overcoming attitudes that we should manage without help,
regardless of the physical cost to us, and that those of us who are
women of colour or immigrant, deserve even less.
We tackle many different problems, raise awareness, and often
win.
· As
women refugees or seeking asylum, who have disabilities, pressing
for the right to stay, and the same resources and consideration that all
of us with disabilities should have.
Support Peter
Gichura, disabled asylum seeker, in a precedent-setting disability
discrimination case. See model
letter.
· Our
Refugee Project enables women refugees and women seeking asylum,
who have disabilities and/or long-term ill-health, to overcome
deprivation and exclusion, increase public awareness and improve
provision.
· Solidarity
with women gas survivors in Bhopal, India, and
other corporate murder. December
2004-2005 is the 20th anniversary of the world’s worst
industrial disaster at a US-owned pesticide plant in Bhopal, which has
killed 20,000 people, mostly from the poor neighbourhoods closest to the
plant. We support the
struggle led by Bhopali women, Muslim and Hindu together, for
prosecutions, Dow Chemical to clean up the plant, clean water,
compensation, proper wages for gas survivors employed in schemes... see www.bhopal.net
More – Rashida Bee speaks at the Women’s Centre
· We
take part in the Global Women’s Strike
on 8 March, International Women’s Day, and actions throughout the
year: With other
women we say “No war! –
Invest in caring not killing”. www.globalwomenstrike.net
Contact us:
Tel: 020 7482 2496 (voice/minicom)
winvisible@allwomencount.net
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Volunteers welcome! ***
WinVisible,
Crossroads Women’s Centre,
230A
Kentish Town Road, London NW5 2AB