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 صوتي يتو تقول Zero Tolerance
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سلام يا كرام
الإعلان أدناه من منظمة صوتي يتو التى ترأسها الأستاذة زينب أييقا وهي من جنوب السودان.
يمكنكم الاشتراك في هذا المسح أو الدراسة كما هو موضح ادناه
ولكم جزيل الشكر والتقدير
Dear Sauti Yetu Friends and Supporters,
I am writing you today, on the International Day of Zero Tolerance To Female Genital Mutilation, to invite you to participate in a national survey on political attitudes, practices and beliefs throughout the African immigrant community in the United States.
Survey link: http://cts.vresp.com/c/?SautiYetuCenterforAf/...af385e5b4/b2324042ff
Through this survey, we hope to better understand how African immigrant individuals and communities participate in and contribute to legislative processes and policy development in the United States and in their country of origin. In addition, we hope to understand how individuals communicate with key stakeholders in their communities here and abroad and the networks that result from this connection. Lastly, we hope to foster a dialogue that engenders understanding and builds relationships—both nationally and at the community level—that reflect the complexity and sensitivity of the issue of female genital cutting.
Over the last seven years, Sauti Yetu Center for African Women, a non-profit community-based organization in New York City, and several African immigrant organizations throughout the United States have worked to include the voices of immigrant and refugee communities in U.S. policy discourse. Through our prior research, which has included surveys and focus groups, we have documented attitudes and perspectives on female genital cutting (FGC), youth and migration in the informal economy, women and economic mobility throughout NYC’s hair braiding salons, the effectiveness of ESL on students designated as Students with Interrupted Formal Education (SIFE) following migration to the U.S., along with other important issues. We have found that the African immigrant community is frustrated with the lack of inclusion in debates, policy development and the passing of legislation.
This survey is not intended to be used by any government agency and is completely anonymous. The survey has been sent to African student organizations, African community based organizations, community leaders, and academics across the United States. In the spring we will begin a series of focus groups to build on the survey results with the intent of drafting a series of policy briefs representative of the African immigrant community in the United States.
The survey should take between 15 and 30 minutes to complete. If you need to exit the survey before completing it, your answers will be saved and you may return to the same computer to edit or complete your responses until the survey closes at 5:00 pm EST by March 6th 2012.
Wide distribution of this survey is crucial. Please forward the survey to others who may have knowledge of and perspectives on the African immigrant community in the United States.
LINKS TO SURVEY:
• If you wish to forward the survey to others via personal email, please forward this email.
• If you wish to add the survey to your facebook wall and/or send the survey out via listserve, please use this link: https://www.research.net/s/2012PoliticalEmpowermentandFGCSurvey
• If you wish to embed this survey in your organization’s webpage, please use this code: Click here to take survey
• If there are members in your community who are not familiar with computer-based questionnaires, please feel free to help them enter their information.
We thank you in advance for your time and support.
Zeinab Eyega
Executive Director
Sauti Yetu Center for African Women
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact:
Lisa Frenchik
Policy Analyst
Sauti Yetu Center for African Women
(t) 718-665-2486, ext. 209 | (f) 718-665-2483 | [email protected]
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Asma Abdel Halim
عائشة موسي السعيد
فيس بوك
تويتر
انستقرام
يوتيوب
بنتيريست