Today is website training day. I am a little nervous as I am not very good with I.T. but I am ready to give it a go!

Mathew our trainer has already showed us how to create a new page, categorise titles with colours and upload photos. It hasn't been as hard or scary as I thought. I've been asking lots of silly questions and Mathew has been patiently answering them and showing me how to get out of little fixes!

I've had a play around - putting photos on news articles, changing sizes and inserting them amongst texts. I think I need to still practice doing this a little more.

Some feedback from women who attended our International Women's Day event on Monday:

We had a great time today. We learnt about International Womens Day, which we knew nothing about before. We have really enjoyed this rare chance to celebrate everything great about being a women!!

Lovely meeting some new people. The food was wonderful, but the atmosphere and especially the dancing has been great fun. We love coming here and today has been extra special!

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The British Redcross came and ran a women-only session on first aid and resuscitation: particularly around small children stopping breathing, choking and burns.

Sian, the female trainer, went through some theory on what to do in a emergency, and then the ladies had the chance to practice on baby dummies.

The feedback from the women was very positive:

How does Migration shape our perception of Europe?

Lisbon, Portugal.

I have just returned from a conference held by the British Council in partnership with the European Union and local organisations throughout Europe. It had a specific focus on approaches in Portugal, the United Kingdom, Canada and North America.

As always our monthly womens lunch was a great success.

Over 25 local women and 5 children enjoyed lots of food, laughter and interesting conversations. As there was less women than usual (we get about 40 women plus children on a regular basis), we went around and the ladies introduced themselves and shared something good that had happened to them in the last week.