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ANCWL Media Release, 12 May 2014 Meeting on Nigerian Schoolgirls ANCWL to provide a Platform for all Women NGOs and interested parties to assist efforts to bring back Nigerian School Girls The African National Congress Women's League, under the leadership of President, Angie Motshekga will this Friday in Johannesburg provide a platform for all interested parties and women's NGO's to come together and discuss what actions we, as South African women can undertake to bring back the kidnapped Nigerian Schools girls. "The kidnapping of these girls is a travesty of human rights and justice and as women of the African continent we need to come together and combine our efforts until these girls are home in the arms of their parents and loved ones," said Motshekga. The ANCWL will also invite the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) to brief the meeting to ensure we are making plans using the most updated information. Out of this joint meeting, the ANCWL will also be sending a delegation of South African women to Nigeria to meet with women's organizations in that country and assist the situation in whatever way we can. "We are hoping that if we put our heads together as women we can come up with solutions or ways to assist Nigerian women in their efforts. These are our daughters and we need to come together in times like these," said Motshekga The ANCWL have also called on all its structures throughout the country to join women in their Thursday women's prayer meetings and pray for the girls. We are pleased as the Women's League that the girls are still alive based on the video clip released by Boko Haram. They do not leave our thoughts or prayers. We call on all women's NGO's and interested parties to join us at this platform and participate. Details of the meeting are as follows: . Date: 16 May 2014 (Friday) . Time: 13h00 . Venue: Johannesburg (TBC) This event will be followed by a media briefing on Monday morning. However, media are also welcome to attend the main meeting and discussions. Issued by ANCWL For more information please contact NEC spokesperson Ednah Molewa on 076 462 5529 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
