Afaemme News

AFAEMME vice presidents Dra Amany Asfour and Dra Samira Hadmilijani, will be present at the conference Businesswomen of 22 Arab and African nations among them Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Libya, Tunisia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Syria, Algeria, Ethiopia, Senegal, Guinea, Nigeria, Gambia, Zambia, Tanzania, Mali, Cameroon, Rwanda and Yemen. Exhibition will be on the 2nd - 5th of November 2016, which will include the exhibits of many successful female business owners as well as a fashion and folkloric show on the 4th of November.

As member of the SwitchMed International High Level Jury of experts, AFAEMME was invited to take part to the SwitchMed Connect, an annual gathering of Mediterranean stakeholders with the aim to build synergies, exchange knowledge and scale up eco and social innovations, which was launched for the first time in October 2015. The need for a more sustainable production and consumption emerged from the various meetings and workshops. Nowadays, our Mediterranean region has to afford a huge pressure from the new emerging threats, like the climate change.

Mª Helena de Felipe, Member of Board of the EESC-European Economic and Social Committee and EUROMED Committee, will participate the next 25 th October at the conference "Women as job creators in the Euromed region" under the topic "Contribution of organised civil society to addressing regional challenges" at The Euromed Summit in Athens. 24th- 25th October, Vravrona (Greece)

Maria Helena de Felipe Lehtonen, President of AFAEMME, will attend on Monday 10 th October, the Third High Level Conference on Women Empowerment Union for the Mediterranean as a member of the ESCS -Council EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL.