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Three cheers as SAWG launches into
cyberspace.
30 April 2002
Samoa Association of
Women Graduates launched its new website www.sawg.ws, unveiled its logo and
distributed the first edition of it's SAWG quarterly newsletter at the CSL
office on Tuesday 30 May. The website and newsletter simply expands the
capacity to inform and be informed and network with others; local and overseas.
Information about the association and its commitments are posted on the website
including its officers, members, projects and information about access to
scholarships and funding available via affiliated organizations such as IFUW -
International Federation of University Women, and PGWNet (Pacific Graduate
Women's Network). Website designer Derek Slaven from CSL and also SAWG vice
president Laeimau Oketevi Tanuvasa-Savea said that the website is much needed
for SAWG as a stepping stone for it's own members to be utilized as a tool for
developing international understanding, co-operation and friendship. The
website will enable graduate women to share and use their expertise to effect
change in enhancing education, which can influence and benefit society, as well
as advocating the improvement of the status of women and girls.
The logo
was designed by several members of the executive and their choice for the
Samoan ava bowl symbolized representation, acknowledgement and recognition.
These are Samoan cultural values which are underscored by the continuing
tradition of the ava ceremony itself. The ava cup holding the fire is an
adaptation of the lamp of learning which is the logo for the mother
organization -IFUW- International Federation of University Women. President of
SAWG Dr Emma Kruse Vaai explained further that not only can we partake of the
communal ava drink from the coconut cup but we also share the fire of knowledge
which we received as graduates for the enlightenment and development of Samoa
and the international community which we are also members of.
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