We have been deeply honoured with the gift of sitting this week with Anjali Woodford, founder of Gold Coast Women's Health Networking Page.
Anjali lives on the Gold Coast, Australia with her beautiful family and has a mission to empower women in different ways involving health and wellness. This includes giving a voice to women in developing countries such as Nepal. Her home country of birth.
Indignant at age 10 being verbally abused by an older man in the village and told she was worthless as a girl to her family, Anjali has had a fire deep within that has simmered, rising to the surface at different stages of her life, giving her strength and the courage to find a way out of that life. The fire has continued to be brewing away and now is rising to the surface as a very BIG DREAM!
Bringing amazing things to women in community is a part of the flame in her heart. Empowering women locally and in undeveloped countries to be able to utilise the resources, support, uplift and collaborate to learn from our strength and weaknesses.
In Anjali's words; "As you are aware, I am from Nepal and I am passionate to see some changes that impacted me growing up. In Nepal lots of girls suffers from sexual abuse, sex trafficking, domestic violence and early marriage. Once a woman is in the situation of being touched by a man inappropriately, they are seen as dirty and abandoned by family and the community."
Gold Coast Women's Health Network Page is bringing the women’s health and wellbeing community together in a networking space for all health care professionals and a learning space for everyone.
GCWNP is the first step in Anjali's BIG DREAM. The second step is a practitioner / fund raising event being held in September, link below.
This event is to bring our women’s health and wellness practitioners together, which will help to bring better health support to our community. If you are a health & wellness practitioner, please feel welcome to contact Anjali via the links below. It is a very active / interactive community!
More from Anjali: " Having grown up in Nepal and experiencing sexual and verbal abuse firsthand due to the beliefs each family has to have a son, it was very hurtful to see women around me experiencing all sorts of upsetting situations and not having the support. Our event is creating awareness to these situations and for men or women to be able to live a violence free and safe life. This is “WHY I DO WHAT I DO”
We have a feeling that Anjali will be creating both wonderful community and changes in the world with her dream coming true!!!
Website: https://gcwhnp.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goldcoastwomenshealthnetwork/
Event Info & Tickets:
https://events.humanitix.com/gold-coast-women-s-health-network-charity-event
