SAHARA Women's Group (SWG)

Constitutional objectives

To prevent and relieve poverty for the diverse EM women through initiating and facilitating support programs to empower local women. This is paired with advancing and delivering initiatives and programs that facilitate equal engagement and participation of the diverse EM women and their families in the community while ensuring responsive care needs are secured and delivered equally to the diverse women: employing community advocacy support, culture and art programmes, community care initiatives, tackling isolation, and exclusion and deploying a community learning and development approach to equal involvement and empowerment. which help advance equality, inclusion and community cohesion. To promote equality and diversity through enabling the diverse EM women and encouraging collaboration and shared learning, and to deliver responsive inclusive programs including cultural and volunteering activities that safeguard equal opportunities and care for these diverse women in society at various levels while assisting in removing barriers that hinder and disadvantage these diverse EM women from acting as equal citizens. The advancement of community health (including mental health) through developing and delivering community social care awareness programs including welfare and wellbeing advocacy surgeries, social clubs, community culture and art educational workshops, social clubs, volunteering programs and physical activities and advocacy support, etc. via working in partnerships with health and community stakeholders in support of these diverse women at several levels.