Southern View: August 20, 2019

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Identifying barriers for women
HELPING HAND: Pari Hussaini will be working with women
feeling socially isolated in the south-west to help them
connect with their communities.
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• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding
A CASE study has been
commissioned to help
identify barriers keeping
socially isolated women
from connecting with their
communities in the south-west.
Funding of $30,000 was
granted from the Government’s
Ethnic Communities Development
Fund to enable the Family
Help Trust to employ a connector
role to determine what is
isolating women.
The role, which will be taken
on by Wigram resident Pari
Hussaini over the next six
months, was prompted as a
result of the March 15 attacks.
She said it is mostly Muslim
women who have been left feeling
anxious since the attacks,
but her role is to help all women
who need help connecting with
their community.
“I am mostly going around
and talking with lots of communities,
schools, parents and
also with my own community,”
Mrs Hussaini said.
She will be focusing on
communities in the greater
Halswell, Hornby, Spreydon
and Addington area – including
speaking with schools and
parents.
City councillor Anne Galloway,
who is involved in the
trust, agreed the attacks have
created more anxiety in the
community, which is perhaps
keeping people house-bound.
“We are trying to identify
barriers . . . it might be language,
it could be they have got
no licence, it could be they are
anxious and worried and want
to stay close to home.”
But Cr Galloway said there is
also a sense there are socially
isolated people who have been
living in the south-west community
for a long time.
“We are just basically doing a
scope at the moment to see the
need,” she said.
Mrs Hussaini’s role will be
funded for the next six months.
Last month $30,000 of funding
was approved.
Cr Galloway said the
six months case study will
determine if there is a need in
the community for a full-time
connector role.
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BARBECUE AT MOSQUE
A neighbourhood barbecue
will be held at Al Noor Mosque,
Deans Ave this Sunday. Residents
are invited to see the mosque and
meet the people who worship
their in a bid to get to know their
neighbours better. The barbecue
will be held outside, but the public
are welcome to look inside the
mosque. Women need to wear
headscarves and modest clothing.
If you go inside you must take
your shoes off. If the weather isn’t
favourable the barbecue will be
cancelled but residents will still
be welcome to visit the mosque. It
will be held from noon until 2pm.
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on Tuesday.
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