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Moygownagh Community Development Project Moygownagh Community Development Project, operating as Women of the North West,
a network of approximately 30 rural women's groups, is an
issue based self-help community movement situated in Mayo.
Manager: Marian Flannery
Tel.: 00353-9631774
Tel./Fax: 00353-9631900
Email: nmwomen@eircom.net
News WELL Project - VEC Equality for Women Conference in Mayo
At a two-day conference held in Mulranny in December, to celebrate the successful completion of the WELL project, Dr. Katie Sweeney, CEO, Mayo VEC, announced the outcome and keys findings of the Equality for Women project. In particular, the project highlighted inequalities in the area of access to further education for women who are not on the live register, under the access requirements of further education and training provided by government agencies. Read more about the WELL Project here.
Moygownagh Art Exhibition 2008
Moygownagh was a hive of activity when the Women of the North West officially unveiled the art exhibition entitled ‘Rural Expression’ on the 20th June 2008.
Former EU Commissioner – turned artist – Padraig Flynn was among the many locals and visitors taking a sneak preview of the 53 works included in the exhibition. Read more here
Childcare and IT Graduations 2007
A graduation ceremony was held on Monday, 12th December 2007 at Moygownagh Community Centre. It was a joyous occasion as 47 students from Ballycastle, Ballina, Crossmolina, Kilfian and Moygownagh stepped up to receive their certificates. 12 students received FETAC Accreditation in childcare. 20 students received FETAC Accreditation in IT. Read more here.
Previous News
Bips smoking cessation research
The Euro Scip III report 'An International Comparison of Smoking Prevalence in Pregnant Women' was published in July 2006. The report can be downloaded from our Euro scip page here.
Community Programmes
For information on the Cummunity Development Programmes including the Back to Education Initiative please click here.
Art Exhibition
‘RURAL EXPRESSIONS’ THE ARTISTIC WORK OF LOCAL WOMEN
The exhibition was launched by Beverly Flynn TD and 30th June 2006 in Moygownagh Community Centre. Find out more here.
Our March 2006 newsletter on Euro-Scip can be downloaded here (896 KB).
Click here to access the research study page.
Click here to view a gallery of the recent Moygownagh Graduations .
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