The Latin American Mission Program (LAMP) is presenting THE 26th ANNUAL DANIEL O’HANLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE
Presenter: Dr. Sara Torres, Assistant Professor of Social Work, Dalhousie University, Halifax
Topic: Challenges Facing Immigrant Women: “The Cry of the Earth”
Date: Sunday, October 29, 2017, 2:00 p.m.
Place: Our Lady of the Assumption Parish Hall 151 Stratford Road, Stratford, PEI
Entertainment and refreshments will follow the lecture. All are welcome!
More about the Presenter: Dr. Sara Torres, originally from Columbia, is no stranger to PEI, having lived here for a number of years with her family, involved in solidarity work with El Salvador.
Her academic research involved the role of community health worker programs in addressing health inequities among immigrant and refugee women in Canada.
For over 20 years, Dr. Torres, in different facets of her professional and academic life, as a volunteer and in paid positions, has contributed to organizing efforts at the local, provincial, national, and international levels.
At the local level, she has worked with immigrant and refugee communities to break isolation and improve efforts in settlement and adaption into the new country; at the national level, she has worked for policy change and in grassroots organizing around issues of poverty and women’s equality & health equity; at the international level, she has worked to improve and develop youth leadership skills and community capacity building in rural communities in El Salvador, to support fair trade initiatives, and to build alliances between grassroots organizations in Canada and the United States.