WFWP event with Birmingham's Iranian Society - Birmingham, United Kingdom

By Patricia Earle together. They are also managing to find a in this way. It was so nice to make more

W very good balance between maintaining friends in such a natural way, and I could hen you hear the word ‘Iran’, the best elements of their Persian cultural share very freely about many things, perhaps your first thoughts are heritage and, at the same time, integrating including the various activities of WFWP. of Ayatollahs, or nuclear successfully into our British society. There were stalls for health and beauty, weapons treaties, or human rights In July, I was invited as the local children’s activities, films, singing and concerns. Since returning to Birmingham representative of WFWP to have a stall at musical performances and, of course, in 1992, we have had the pleasure of their Iranian Cultural Fair, teaching wonderful Iranian food. All of this getting to know quite many Iranian people women of all ages some card-making contributed to the feeling of a family who were visiting, or have fled to, or have skills. In fact, it didn’t require much festival, and a sense of pride in their settled in, the UK. Many of those were ‘teaching’ as they all seemed to have a lot Persian heritage. It was a privilege to be individual families but, in the last two or of natural creative ability, making so many invited and involved in the occasion, and three years, I have made friends with beautiful cards of different designs, and for our 2 organisations have established a several wonderful women who have different occasions. You can see from the genuine partnership, supporting each developed the ‘Birmingham Iranian pictures the results of their efforts, and the other’s events and activities, in a way Society’, which is doing great work in delight they took in expressing themselves which is clearly to our mutual benefit. bringing various factions of Iranian people