Dublin Mosque event marks International Woman’s Day with visit from Sabina Higgins
Subjects for discussion included Amal and what it does, housing and homelessness, Islamophobia and how to make communities safer, and promoting healthy eating.
More than anything, Amal is a safe place and forum where Muslim woman can meet and share stories, seek advice, swop news and commune in solidarity with each other. Amal also promotes women registering to vote.in a welcoming address to Ms Higgins that included introductory remarks in Irish. The gathering was an occasion for celebrating and for networking, she suggested.A pivotal focus of Amal’s activities is the Wednesday morning coffee gathering at the mosque.
Making unscheduled and unscripted remarks, Ms Higgins spoke of the UN’s millennium goals and how they included women’s rights, including the right not to be subjected to FGM . She praised Amal and its organisers and wished them well. Amal seeks to engage with a community of some 200 women. It had a board of volunteers, as well as a youth council. It recently received a grant of some €35,000 from the social innovation fund which it hopes to use partly to fund a full-time employee.
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