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May 2021 (PDF) Quarterly Newsletter of the Support Association for the Women of Afghanistan Issue 70 May 2021 Published by SAWA-Australia (SA) Inc and SAWA-Australia (NSW) Inc www.sawa-australia.org FROM THE EDITOR Greetings for 2021 MORE FUNDRAISING IDEAS …. How lucky we are to be nearly free from Covid in Australia Remember that every dollar raised helps – and we can get together in groups in our communities. women and girls in Afghanistan. This means we can focus on fundraising for SAWA again. This issue of SAWAN has some ideas for • Invite friends to a morning or afternoon tea. gatherings and events which we hope may inspire you to You provide your home or garden, plus tea / organise a fundraiser - large or small - wherever you are coffee in pretty cups – and ask guests to in Australia. bring a small plate of cake or biscuits to SAWA (SA) has been able to send approximately share. Cost $10 – or just ask for a US$50,000 to the Vocational Training Centre every year. donation. SAWA (NSW) raises additional funds for the projects they • If you have crafty friends and family, invite support in other provinces. If YOU are able to host a them to contribute their home-made goods morning tea, dinner, market stall, film screening, art show and set up a table at the local shopping or other event to raise funds, we’d love to hear from you. centre, school or market. SAWA will help you to promote your event through this • If you own a business – or know someone newsletter or special e-News mail-outs. We’ll also publish who does – perhaps you could put a your photos and stories to inspire others! collection box for donation on the counter? SAWA can provide photos and information Margaret Gadd Editor for a small display. • Your school, University, church or other FIRST FUNDRAISING EVENT IN SA FOR 2021 community group could arrange a guest See SAWA-SA news on Page 5 for more information speaker and photos about Afghanistan? You are invited to an afghan feast • If you can source a movie - not necessarily an Afghan one – holding a movie night at a and silent auction local cinema or community hall will raise valuable funds. • For Facebook users … when it’s your birthday, Facebook offers you the opportunity to ask your FB Friends to donate to a charity of your choice. Choose SAWA! at Rumi Palace Restaurant Funds and donations can be 330 Prospect Road, Blair Athol, SA paid directly into SAWA’s bank on Thursday 20 May 6.30pm account: • SAWA-Australia (SA) Inc $50 per person • BSB 633-000 Book a table or just come along and • Account number 12603563 meet new friends. To book www.trybooking.com/BQLOW www.sawa-australia.org ****************************** We are greatly indebted to Peter Miller of (NOTE: SAWA members in other States … www.pmwebsites.com.au for his expert perhaps you’d like to arrange a similar dinner at assistance and endless patience in working an Afghan Restaurant in your city? We’d love to with us on our new website. With help you with ideas, brochures and publicity!) information in English and Dari (the language of Afghanistan) you can read the latest news, find reports and history, buy books and **NEW POSTAL ADDRESS FOR SAWA-SA bags, join SAWA or renew your membership. We have opened a PO Box for mail CHECK IT OUT! PO Box 44, Dernancourt SA 5075 Mursal has resigned On returning to Australia, it was impossible to just We have all been sad to learn pick up the pieces and calmly return to life as a that Mursal, the wonderful and rural reporter. The memories of “seeing kids dedicated Director of OPAWC, getting hurt, kids going hungry when there is has resigned. Mursal has plenty in the world, and often just observing, not returned to her home province to being able to stop it” stayed with her, until in care for her mother who has November 2012, she suffered a breakdown. been unwell. Our thoughts, love and gratitude go to Mursal for all she has done to Coming to terms with her condition was a gradual support the women and girls in OPAWC’s programs. process involving several years of She will be missed by everyone. psychotherapy. Writing the play in 2015 “wasn’t The OPAWC Board is meeting to appoint a new so much therapy as a way of reclaiming the Director as soon as possible. events, turning an awful experience into something positive,” Sally says. (Thanks to Barbara James (NSW) and Carol Shamsabadi Sally Sara: Foreign Correspondent, (SA) for sending news about Sally Sara’s recent play writer and playwright “Stop Girl” “Stop Girl” which was performed in Sydney in March) Most SAWA members will know Sally Sara as one “Making Marks” Exhibition of the ABC’s most respected foreign correspondents. Among many speaking I was very fortunate to be in Melbourne in March engagements on her return from Afghanistan, Sally while the beautiful Making Marks exhibition was addressed a packed audience at a SAWA event in being shown at the Adelaide in 2012. More recently, she has written a Counihan Gallery in play about her experiences in Afghanistan, and the Brunswick. It was such a traumatising effect that her 3 years in this war-torn pleasure to meet Gali Weiss country had on her. The play “Stop Girl” was (pictured), the artist who facilitated the project performed at Sydney’s Belvoir Theatre in March, between Australian women hopefully to be repeated in other cities over time. artists and the women at the An overview of Sally Vocational Training Centre. Sara’s CV provides an It was also an absolute joy to insight into her skills, see the exquisite painting experience and and embroidery on the professionalism. In handkerchiefs which had 2000, after a three-month been returned from Afghanistan. I hope many stint in Jakarta, she other SAWA members and supporters were able became the ABC’s Africa to share in viewing this special exhibition. correspondent. She has since reported from 40 Margaret Gadd (Editor) countries, including Iraq, Sierra Leone, South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Sally is an The book “Making Marks” is still available through eight-time Walkley Award finalist, as well as a Gali’s website: https://galiweiss.wixsite.com/making-marks-book winner, in 2017, for her reporting on the famine in $39.95, plus postage. Proceeds go to OPAWC. Somaliland. She’s achieved four UN Media Awards, and at least a dozen international honours, including for TV and radio reporting. In 2011, she became a Member of the Order of Australia for service to Durkhani Ayubi is a writer and journalism. scholar who lives in Adelaide and is involved with the Sally worked in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2012. responsibilities of her family’s Like all war correspondents, she frequently restaurants. She also writes witnessed traumatising sights and events including freelance opinion-editorial the horrific injuries and deaths of women and pieces for a range of children. But one incident in particular - filming a newspapers and websites, and is an Atlantic critically injured 11-year-old boy in Kandahar - Fellow of the Atlantic Institute which is based at stayed with her. This, and the cumulation of other the Rhodes Trust in Oxford, England. events, had a shattering impact on her. Durkhani spoke recently at women in this kind of society to be able to Adelaide Writers Week about exercise their rights. her new book ‘Parwana’ which tells the story of her ASA: When you compare the academics and family’s migration to Australia, writers who were educated before the civil their love of creating and wars with those coming through the educational system now, what are the sharing food. The book differences and can today’s writers read the contains mouth-watering heights achieved by such figures as recipes and photos of Rahnaward Zaryab [note: Zaryab died of traditional Afghan dishes. Covid-19 on December 11 last year] ‘Parwana’ is published by Murdoch Books. These two periods in our history faced crises of differing sorts. Since the civil war, we have faced Women with Torches – a focus on positivity crises such as deprivation and migration. Today’s from Afghanistan writers have different stories. Young writers write (Summary of an article in the online journal well and reflect the pain of society. “Counterpunch” February 2021 It is certainly not an easy task for a young writer to reach the heights of his or her calling. Recently an education centre at Kabul University However, I can say that the current crop of was ripped apart by a huge suicide bomb that killed writers, who also happen to have written beautiful 20 and injured a further 70 people, mostly teenaged stories, certainly have the capabilities to reach the students. Seeking to discuss any positivity coming position of masters like Rahnaward Zaryab. out of Afghan institutions of higher education, chief correspondent Ahmad Soheil Ahmadi spoke to ASA: As a political science student, what are Ms. Fatemeh Khavari, an award-winning author. your hopes for the future of women’s political activity? ASA: In what ways have you explored the theme of Afghan women’s rights in your writing? When we celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8, it is essentially a reminder of the We live in a society where women’s rights are not efforts that women in the West have made to respected. As a result, women cannot reach the assert their rights. Today, in Afghanistan, we are positions they deserve.
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