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Call for Nomination for the book “100 Black European Women in Leadership” and the “Black European Leadership Award – BELA 2009”
The need to highlight, raise awareness on and to celebrate achievements and successes of Black European Women from a self-empowerment perspective has been repeated on several occasions. It is a fact that there are many Black European Women in decision-making and leadership positions in different Member States of the European Union. However, their contributions and achievements still remain largely invisible.
Therefore, AFRA and its partners think that it is high time to pick up this challenge from a self-empowerment perspective and focus on this aspect within the framework of the European Year on Innovation and Creativity 2009.
For this reason we are currently working on our next book with the title: "100 Black European Women in Leadership". This project aims at gathering data on 100 Black European Women in leadership and decision-making positions in Europe, under the following categories: Social and
Humanitarian engagements, Politics, Entrepreneurship, Academics and Research, Arts and Culture, Sports and Media.
The selected 100 women shall be published as an attempt to honor these Black European role models (in all their rich diversity) for their leadership activities on the one hand, and on the other hand to encourage and promote the younger generations to go even further.
We therefore would very much appreciate it, if you could recommend and/or help passing on this call to Black European Women around you, whom you think definitely deserve to be honored and celebrated.
The deadline for nominations has been extended to April 20th 2009.
An international jury is going to decide upon the 100 Black European Women to be considered in the book project. Alongside the book project AFRA and its partners are organising the High Level Gala Night in Brussels in October 2009, to officially present the book “100 Black European Women in Leadership” and to honor selected personalities (for the first time) with the "Black European Leadership Award (BELA 2009)".
For further information we gladly will be at your service and are looking forward to getting in personal contact with you.
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." (Barack Obama 2008)
Let us make a difference together!
Beatrice Achaleke
Executive Director AFRA
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