Education for Women

CCWEST Conference – May 3-6, 2016 – Ottawa ON

Sustaining Growth for Innovation: bringing women to the forefront – Conference link here

This year’s conference themes are inspired by “Seizing Canada’s Moment: Moving Forward in Science, Technology and Innovation” (2014) and our engagement with the United Nations new sustainable development goals, “Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.”

Conference Themes:

  1. Indigenous knowledge and science advancement
  2. Mentoring and networking
  3. Preparing women for innovation
  4. Fostering innovation culture
  5. Encouraging science, engineering, trades and technology to industry
  6. Supporting global connections
  7. Promoting open space and collaboration
  8. Innovating in the workplace for inclusion of women
  9. Innovating in the workplace for women’s leadership
  10. Youth engagement

WIFF Best of Fest Award to “Driving with Selvi”

Best of Fest 3Roslyn Bern presented the award to Elisa Paloschi, producer and director of the film, shown here with Selvi and her daughter. This documentary is about a former child bride who becomes Karnataka, India’s first female taxi driver.

After the life of the film is over, Elisa wants to make sure that something sustainable is left behind, and that Selvi’s story will continue to impact women and girls across India (and beyond) – in keeping with Leacross foundation’s goals.

Elisa hopes to:
1. Shift attitudes about child marriage and open dialogue about non-traditional livelihoods for women – Grass roots and community screenings.
2. Create training opportunities for women in non-tradtional livelihoods (taxi driving to start) – Partner with NGOs and training facilities and provide training grants.
3. Create jobs in the driving business – Partner with a major bank, CSR and business development org to develop a co-op/umbrella style infrastructure for women to work together. Provide low interest loans to women to purchase cars.

For more information – click here

Beautifully Me Event – Feb. 13, 2016

Beautifully Me 2016 – beautifullyme

We are inviting you to the third annual Beautifully Me event. This is an opportunity to connect with other young women in your community and to engage in meaningful conversations about various key issues through a lens of self-love and self-care. This year, we will focus on career development and exploring the steps to discovering your own life journey.

 

Contact: n.elmi@pqchc.com

Canadian Conference on Global Health – 2015 –

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L to R: Valentina, Miriam, Roslyn, Claudel, Hélène & Harneet.

Roslyn is pictured here at the 22nd CCGH Conference in Montreal with the Leacross 2015 grant recipients who attended the 3 day event from November 5-7.

University of Ottawa Heart Institute Interns

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Kaela Shea, University of Guelph with Roslyn Bern, Leacross President and Hailey Lowden, Carleton University

Hailey Lowden and Kaela Shea are this year’s recipients of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute’s Leacross intern program in bio-medical research.