01.10.-03.10.2010: Frauenpolitischer Ratschlag in Düsseldorf

http://www.frauenpolitischerratschlag.de/

Der DPF unterstützt den Frauenpolitischen Ratschlag und konnte Joan Salvador von GABRIELA, einer philippinischen Frauenallianz, einladen.

Hier ist eine erste Vorstellung, die auch bald in Deutsch übersetzt wird:

Joan Salvador currently work as an International Liaison Staff of the International Relations Department of GABRIELA Alliance of Filipino Women.

Before joining the National Office in 2004, she worked as a full time organizer for GABRIELA Youth. She is a graduate of Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature from the University of the Philippines, where she first joined the organization in 2007. As an active member of the GABRIELA Youth, she participated in educational trainings and discussions about issues of young women and women in general, students‘ rights and welfare, among others. She held positions as Education Officer, responsible for the political education of GABRIELA Youth members, and Basic Masses Integration Officer, resposible for developing programs for student immersion among peasant, workers, and urban poor women. During her last two years in the university she performed full time work organizing students in her university and in neighboring schools and colleges. She spent much of her summer time between classes and organizing peasants and urban poor communities in Central Luzon.In between these she also taught English language for foreign students to help pay for her education.

As an International Liaison staff for GABRIELA, Joan helps organize international activities such as the bi-annual Women’s International Solidarity Affairs in the Philippines (WISAP), and maintains GABRIELA’s communication with international alliances such as the Asian Rural Women’s Coalition, Asian Women’s Allianve for the Elimination of Violenec on Women, the International League of People’s Struggle and other women’s organizations. She also sits as a board member for the Philippine-Democratice People’s Republic of Korea Friendship Committee and the Philippine-Venezuela Friendship Society.

Like most Filipino activists in the Philippine national democratic movement, Joan regularly goes to grassroots communities and helps in the economic, socio-political and gender education and training of women.

GABRIELA Philippines
35 Sct. Delgado St, Brgy. Laging Handa
Quezon City, 1103 Philippines
TeleFax: (632) 374 44 23
E-mail: gabwomen@yahoo.com