On Thursday June 7th, the staff and board members of Women With A Vision took a trip to The Bead Shop, located on Magazine Street in New Orleans. Aside from admiring the beautiful jewelry that the shop carries, we also attended a jewelry making class for beginners, a first step in launching WWAV’s new micro-enterprise […]
Raising Our Voices with PWN in the South
WWAV was honored to unite with our HIV+ sisters across the South for the first ever Positive Women’s Network (PWN) “Raising Our Voices: An Advocacy Summit for HIV+ Women in the South” on March 6-8! Learn more about the PWN at www.pwn-usa.org.
Micro-Enterprise, WWAV Style: Creating Beauty, Ending Poverty
Women With A Vision and Good Work Network are partnering to create pathways to economic opportunity for marginalized women in the New Orleans area. Target groups will include HIV positive women, previously incarcerated women, female victims of domestic violence, and LGBT individuals. Individual and group craft projects and goods, including jewelry and preserves, will be […]
WWAV’s Story Circles with Wendi O’Neal – Monthly, 1st and Last Tuesdays
As a cultural worker, facilitator, and educator, Wendi O’Neal connects social and economic justice groups’ mission, vision and values with how everyday work gets done. She uses spiritually grounded practices, art, story circles and song sharing as tools for growing inspiration and sharing methodology for democratic process. Born and raised in New Orleans, she has […]
Deon Haywood Honored by Forum For Equality
Recognizing that the face of HIV/AIDS has changed in the New Orleans area, with heterosexual Black women becoming the fastest growing population of newly diagnosed cases in the city and state, the founders of WWAV have provided HIV/AIDS education and substance abuse resources to individuals practicing high risk behaviors such as injection drug use and unsafe […]