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Justin Harnish
- Jan 29, 2019
- 3 min
Restoring Hope – Fashion Show Gala 2019
Every year, the Fashion show is an opportunity to highlight something displaced women can teach us. Last year we highlighted the harms of barriers and the benefits of community, this year we move with momentum forward to restore hope. A hope–we are reminded–that is also the object of a journey we take together. The hope we are restoring is at once audacious and an incentive to act. The endless anger that ‘we the people’ hear on TV and read 280 characters at a time is not the
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Justin Harnish
- Feb 7, 2017
- 2 min
Modeling Our World – 2017 Fashion Show Fundraiser
Want to attend? Follow all our events here. Can’t be at the show? Donate Here “If we understood one another, we would get along better.” Sage advice — especially coming from an elderly woman in traditional Nepali clothing — and it serves as the reason for why we conduct the Fashion Show each year. This year’s theme is “Modeling the World.” From the standpoint of the event, this theme is straight-forward, women and girls will model traditional clothing from countries as differ
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Justin Harnish
- Mar 8, 2016
- 4 min
Celebrating and Honoring Our New Neighbors
This year the 4th Annual Fashion Show was themed around the popular meme “Stepping Up.” Women of the World is constantly looking for ways to highlight the progress that our ladies are making in overcoming the odds and integrating into their communities in Salt Lake City. The life of a newly resettled refugee is an active engagement. It starts trying to make a small apartment into a home. There are many large and small details that go into just this simple task: from ensuring
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Justin Harnish
- Feb 7, 2016
- 2 min
Stepping Up: Women of the World’s 4th Annual Fashion Show Fundraiser
Women of the World celebrates the traditions of our new neighbors, we take pride in our place in the blend of community and culture, and we raise our voices to advocate on behalf of so many still in the process of escaping war and genocide. So it is our honor to invite you to our Celebration of Stepping Up: Women of the World’s 4th Annual Fashion Show Fundraiser. WHEN: Wednesday, 2 March 2016. Mingling starting at 5:30 p.m., Program to begin at 6:00 p.m. WHERE: Publik Coffee
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Justin Harnish
- Mar 10, 2015
- 2 min
3rd Annual Refugee Fashion Show
Women of the World’s 3rd Annual Refugee Fashion show was a resounding success!!! Women from all over the world modeled in this celebration of the beauty and courage of our new neighbors. Burundi, Congolese, Burmese, Iranian, Iraqi, Nepalese, Ethiopian, Rwandan, Sudanese, and Afghani women graced the stage at Pierpont Place on Thursday evening in to show their native country’s fashions. A sample of the photos that were taken are on Women of the World’s Flickr page on the album
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Justin Harnish
- Feb 10, 2015
- 1 min
Inside the Story: KUTV news visits Women of the World
Founder and President of Women of the World was featured this evening on the KUTV program “Inside the Story” with Dan Rascon — The Iraqi Samaritan. The interview is an upbeat look at the sacrifices that Women of the World makes for refugees and the impact that WoW makes — “one hug at a time.” Samira and our new refugee neighbors’ story is compellingly told in the TV story and in the article on the KUTV website. While Women of the World has recently had some great press, Sam
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Justin Harnish
- Jan 16, 2015
- 1 min
Fashion Show Salt Lake City Event
It is that time again… Women’s Fashion Show Salt Lake City Event, celebrating International Women’s Day and our new refugee neighbors and their cultural heritage.This fashion and cultural event is at once a heartfelt celebration of the various refugee cultures in our community (Sudanese, Burundi, Iraqi, Burmese, and many others) and a celebration of the beauty and fashion of women from around the world. Our new neighbors have struggled against war, rape, genocide, oppression
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Justin Harnish
- Aug 12, 2012
- 2 min
2012 Fashion Show Highlights and Pictures
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
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Justin Harnish
- Jun 12, 2012
- 1 min
Second Annual Refugee Fashion Show
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
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Justin Harnish
- Jun 3, 2012
- 1 min
Fashion Show Radio – KSL Cultural Connections
Women of the World was on the radio this weekend! Cultural Connections with Nkoyo Iyamba interviewed the Refugee Fashion Show team including two of the models for this week’s event for its program on Sunday, June 3, 2012.[gn_pullquote align=”right”]As the refugee women walk the catwalk, think about the steps they took before the ones you are seeing — running away from violence and oppression, scared, hoping just for a safe night’s sleep. Think about what they left behind the
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Justin Harnish
- Apr 27, 2012
- 1 min
2012 Refugee Fashion Show on June 8th @ 6pm
Consider donating to Women of the World Women of the World is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization whose aim is to support refugee women to achieve self-sufficiency. Women refugees face the combined threat of suffering their trauma in silence, raising a family in their new home, and having few current job skills applicable to a difficult job market. Utah women refugees struggle and succeed at gaining self-sufficiency through education and employment only with your generous sup
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Justin Harnish
- Jun 17, 2011
- 1 min
First Annual Refugee Fashion Show
Visage Salon Studios for collecting donations to improve the Fashion Show and the mission of WoW. Read the 21 July 2011 update in the Sugarhouse Journal.See the videos on our You Tube Channel and all of the pictures at our Picasa site! https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf #fashion #fashionshow #refugee #Events #models #MiddleEast #Africa
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