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After the 4th annual celebration featuring the role models in the refugee community was complete, the WoW Holiday Celebration was featured by the local news.  This celebration highlights the successes and dreams of refugee women in Utah and while showing the organizational capacity of Women of the World for continually recruiting and resourcing the best volunteer talent and opportunities for Utah’s refugee women.See these links for the newspaper coverage of the celebration:ht

Last night was a great night to meet at the park and hold a candle & stand in solidarity with the women in Iraq that have been raped, that have lost loved ones & continue to weep for an end to war in the Fertile Crescent. WoW held a candlelight vigil supporting Iraqi women caught in the recent violence between ISIS and Iraqi government. These women have suffered horrible atrocities and have been the most affected by the recent violence that Iraq has seen in the incursions fro

The 2012 Fashion Show  was the highlight of Refugee Month and had a large following online: there were more than 3,000 people visited our Fashion Show PR website & an influx of over 1000 new friends to the WoW Facebook pageand some of them wrote a nice comments. You can view the 2nd Annual Refugee Fashion Show pictures here!!! A few other fun facts about the event: There were over 100 people in attendance. We received a $2,500 grant from the City of Salt Lake (Signature Event

Beautiful. Professional. Elegant. Amazing. Dazzling.These are just a few of the words that came out of the mouths of the attendees of the Women of the World Refugee Fashion show on Friday night. Then Founder and Executive Director spoke and added one more word: COURAGE. #Iraqi #fashion #fashionshow #personalstory #publictransportation #refugee #fundraiser #Events #models #MiddleEast

This year the celebration of Eid al-Fitr, the celebration after the month-long Ramadan fast, was supplemented by Women of the World’s gifts, donations, and community roundtable forum with the Refugee Service Office.  The celebration occurred at the Sugarhouse Park and was very well attended.Traditionally, gifts are given to children for Eid and Women of the World donated toys for both boys and girls and was able to find enough women to donate their lightly used jewelry to giv

On Friday morning, in front of 500 refugees, refugee community stakeholders, benefactors, and members of the press, Women of the World President Samira Harnish spoke on the successes and challenges of the Iraqi community in Utah and her vision for a future in which all refugee women are propelling their communities forward through improvements to women’s health, socio-economical standing, and self-confidence.Samira’s positive message for the refugee communities comes from her