Multicultural Women’s Advocacy, Inc.

Multicultural Women’s Advocacy, Inc.(MWA) is an advocacy, advisary, and lobby group that focuses on the needs of women from culturally and linguistic diverse (CALD) backgrounds. MWA engages in providing information, referral, and support to CALD women seeking opportunities to further develop their capabilities and achieving their lives’ goals.

MWA recognises that to maintain cultural harmony, peace and tolerance in the ACT community requires the practices of a fair, collective, and democratic process that reasonably represents the needs of multicultural women. MWA supports practices that uphold the following essential values:

Celebrating Diversity – valuing and respecting the diversity of cultural backgrounds of multicultural women and recognising their cultural rights in practicing their faith and cultural beliefs at home, at work and in the public.
Accessing Equity and Fairness – acknowledging and recognizing that multicultural women have a right to access opportunities and support that enhances their personal, familial, social, cultural, environmental, and economic wellbeing through fair and democratic means.
Empowering Qualities of Self-determination and Leadership – providing opportunities and support for multicultural women to gain self confidence to carry out choices that will enhance her potential in achieving her life goals and to lead by example for other multicultural women.