Dans les dernières semai-

nes, Jason Kenny a été mis

sur la défensive par l'éten-

due de la mobilisation.

Dans les médias, il ressort

son jargon sur les

"immigrants illégaux" pour

défendre ses coupures.

Récemment, les conserva-

teurs ont reculé sur l'appli-

cation des coupures aux

réfugiés parrainés par le

gouvernement. Au Qué-

bec, Yves Bolduc a annon-

cé que le Ministère de la

Santé et des Services So-

ciaux s'engagerait à couvrir

les soins de santé pour les

personnes ayant perdu leur

couverture sous le PFSI, en

plus de garantir l’accès aux

médicaments. Il est impor-

tant de montrer l'ampleur

de la mobilisation pour

faire annuler les coupures

maintenant!

Coupures en santé pour

les réfugiéEs : La pres-

sion monte. Continuons

la mobilisation!

Le ministre Kenney est sur

la défensive. Au Québec, le

ministre Bolduc annonce

que l’assurance-maladie du

Québec compensera pour

les coupures au PFSI!

Prenez deux minutes pour

ajouter votre photo sur le

site web en soutien à la

campagne “Nous ne coo-

pèrerons pas”: http://

c o l l e c t i f j u s t i c e s a n t e -

campagne.tumblr.com

Il est important de mainte-

nir la pression en montrant

l'ampleur de la mobilisa-

tion contre les coupures et

la Loi d'exclusion des réfu-

giés.

Le Collectif Justice Santé

est un regroupement de

militantEs qui travaillent

dans le domaine de la san-

té et qui s’est formé en juil-

let 2012 à Montréal. Nous

réclamons l’accès aux soins

de santé et la justice pour

tou-te-s.

Pour plus d’information:

justice.sante@gmail.com

Twitter: @JusticeSante

Site web: http://

collectifjusticesante-

campagne.tumblr.com

Facebook: https://

www.facebook.com/

events/290211204409945/

Continuons la mobilisation!

Member’s Corner

Members! Please join us

for a movie social on Sun-

day Aug. 26th at 2PM.

Come to the centre, see

some old faces and talk to

some new faces! Title of

the film to be announced.

A shout-out to HEIDI ME-

HTA, the first Youth Pro-gram Coordinator at

SAWCC and a former

member of the SAWCC

Executive Council (Youth

Rep). She has been re-

cently awarded a Master's

in Social Work. Heidi had gone to Toronto several

years ago to take up this

program. She thanks all

who supported and encour-

aged her. Congratulations

Heidi and we hope to see

you soon!

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Centre Communautaire des Femmes Sud-Asiatiques

S O U T H A S I A N W O M E N ’ S C O M M U N I T Y C E N T R E

Bulletin August 2012

Summer camp 2

South Asian Youth / Jeunes Sud asiatiques

2

Annonces / Job post 2

Centre update 3

Healthy Eating 3

Calendar 4

Member’s corner 1

Refugee healthcare

update

1

Inside this issue:

continue engaging with the commu-

nity to create a safer neighbourhood

for us all. J’ Parc-Ex.

sion in response to their love for a

safer Parc-Ex, while many stopped to

chat about the issue of harassment. It

was an inspiring day and we hope to

Since the beginning of our journey,

both the campers and I have had a

blast. Between yelling, playing, cry-

ing, and caring, we have come to

learn so much about each other. At

first it only took a few minutes to un-

derstand the deep bond these kids

shared with each other and the unity

that past summer camps had brought

amongst them. Many activities like

painting, baking and portrait making

were planned with the single selfish

goal of trying to enter this special

bond they shared. But it was through

our routine activities such as going to

Park Lafontaine or Piscine Baldwin that

this truly began to happen. Before I

knew it, the group was off to bigger

trips like the Montreal Science Center,

the Cavalry and Mont-Royal as well as

an international dragon boat festival

(MIDBRF) and the Aquatic Complex at

Parc Jean-Drapeau. At this point it is

only right to thank our lovely volun-

teers who show up without regret

each and every single week to accom-

pany us on our various trips and ac-

tivities. Without these beautiful smil-

ing faces, summer camp could not

happen. Summer camp 2012 is some-

thing special and I cannot wait to see

what it has yet to bring me.

www.bloquonslahausse.com/

calendrier/conferences/ pour plus d’in-

formation.

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Now Hiring!

We are looking for a day-

care worker to take care of children whose moth-

ers are enrolled in morn-

Conférences : « Des raisons

de s'indigner, y'en a ! » au

CEDA (2515 rue Delisle)

Cet été, la CLASSE vous invite à des

discussions sur la loi C-31, le Plan Nord,

et la solidarité et luttes internationales

le 1er août à 19h.

Veuillez visiter http://

ing French and English classes, begin-

ning September 24th.

• Work schedule : Monday , Wednesday, and Thursday 9-

12PM for a total of 9 hours per

week, at $10/hr

• End date negotiable Please submit a CV and a cover letter

to Ghazala (mghazala@bellnet.ca) by

Friday, August 31.

South Asian Youth (SAY) / Jeunes sud-asiatiques (JSA)

Summer camp (by camp counselor Eanjalin Kamaleswaran)

Announcements / Annonces

This month SAY continued its Anti-

Street Harassment Campaign in Parc-

Ex with a day of poster-making at the

Sir William Hingston Centre. In col-

laboration with the Autonomous &

Independent Women project, we in-

vited mothers and daughters to par-

ticipate in an artistic expression work-

shop in the morning. In the afternoon,

we opened the poster-making to eve-

ryone in the community. Many, includ-

ing children and elders, participated

and created their own artistic expres-

Page 2 Centre Communautaire des Femmes Sud-Asiatiques

This month SAWCC says goodbye and

goodluck to Keren Tang. Keren held the position of youth co-coordinator

Since September 2011. She leaves us

to pursue a degree in Public Health at

University of Alberta in Edmonton. On

the other hand, we are happy to an-

nounce that long-time SAWCC mem-

ber/collaborator/supporter Farah

Najah Hussain will be taking on her position of youth co-coordinator be-

ginning August 1st.

On August 1st, SAWCC will also wel-

come Kavitha Sivakumar, the new part-time Tamil community worker.

Also a long-time support of our

women’s organization, Kavitha brings

us her experience as an outreach vol-

unteer who always referred people to

SAWCC services.

We look forward to working with both

of you!

A reminder to folks interested in

learning English and French: registra-

tion for classes has begun! Please call

Ghazala (ext 104) to arrange for a

placement test (details please see

insert).

On July 7th, blessed with beautiful

weather and lake breezes, approxi-

mately 100 members and families en-

joyed the sunshine, each other’s com-

pany, and some delicious food at our

annual picnic, this year taking place at

Lake Magog.

Important:

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to become a member!to become a member!to become a member!to become a member!

• Volunteers: If you are interested in

helping out at the Centre, please

contact Homa (ex. 102 or

homa@bellnet.ca) for a meeting so

we can get to know your skills better!

• SAWCC t-shirt and bags are on-sale

at the Centre (10$ ea.)!!

• salt to taste

• oil for cooking

Instructions: 1. Cook the potatoes in boiling wa-

ter or a pressure cooker until they

are cooked but still a little hard.

Set aside

2. Dry roast the cumin seeds in a pan

until they are slightly fragrant.

Cool and then grind into a coarse

powder with mortar and pestle or

coffee grinder. Set aside

3. Coat the eggplant cubes with salt

and set aside. This will allow the

bitterness to leave the eggplant

4. Heat a small amount of oil in a

pan, add mustard seeds and wait

until they pop. Reduce heat

5. Add onions, garlic, ginger, chillis,

aesofoetida, and turmeric, and

sautee until onions are slightly soft

Ingredients:

• mustard seeds (1 tbsp)

• cumin seeds (2 tbsp)

• turmeric powder (2 tsp)

• aesofoetida (1/2 tsp or to taste)

• standard Indian curry powder

• ghee

• fresh coriander leaves

• fresh curry leaves

• medium Indian eggplant cubed

• black beans (or any other bean) about 2 cups cooked

• 1 can of whole tomatoes

• 2 large potatoes chopped or sliced (depends on preferred chunkiness)

• fresh green chili, sliced lengthwise

• 1 onion (chopped)

• 2 cloves garlic (chopped)

• chopped ginger (to taste)

• juice of one lime

6. Add beans, eggplant and potatoes,

mix together well

7. Add can of tomatoes, squishing

them so that the whole tomatoes are

in small pieces

8. Bring to a light boil. Add ground

cumin, salt, curry leaves and curry

powder. Let cook on medium heat

for 8-10 minutes or until eggplant

and potatoes are fully cooked and

soft

9. Add a little ghee, chopped corrian-

der leaves and lime. turn off heat

Serve with hot rice

or chapati!

For more info on

food delivery,

contact More than

Dhal, contact:

morethandhal@gmail.com

Healthy Eating / Manger santé—Black Bean Curry (courtesy of Swathi Sekhar)

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Centre update

The South Asian Women’s Community Centre is a not-for-profit organization that helps women achieve their full potential in the Québec and Canadian societies and also helps them become independent.

South Asian Women’s Community centre

South Asian Women’s Community Centre Centre Communautaire des femmes sud-asiatiques 1035, rue Rachel est, 3ième étage. Montréal, QC H2J 2J5

Phone: 514-528-8812 Fax: 514-528-0896 E-mail: sawcc@bellnet.ca

31 years of sisterhood, strength, struggle and success 1981-2012

www.sawcc-ccfsa.ca

August 2012

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 4

5 6 7 8 9 10 11

12 13 14 15 16 17 18

19 20 21 22 23 24 25

26 27 28 29 30 31

Aug. 1—CLASSE conference

(see pg. 2)

Aug. 7—Job orientation info

sessions

Aug. 14—Breast cancer aware-

ness info session

Aug. 17—Summer Camp final

show

Aug. 21—Arts & Crafts: Beaded

earrings

Aug. 24—Eid party and

monthly potluck

Aug. 26—Movie social for

members 2PM

Aug. 31—Deadline for job ap-

plication (see pg. 2)

1 août—conférénce organize

par la CLASSE (pg. 2)

7 août—session d’orientation

d’emploi

14 août—sensibilisation de

cancer du sein

17 août—Spectacle du fin du

camp d’ete

21 août—Arts & métiers: des

boucles d’orielles de perles

24 août—Fete d’Eid et diner

communautaire mensuel

26 août—Soirée de film pour

des members 14h

31 août—date limite pour le

demande d’emploi (pg. 2)