This week at Pulling Together we have continued with our Asian Food Can Be Healthy Too project and managed to take advantage of the wonderful weather. Members have been sharing images of their healthy barbecue meals.
This week at Pulling Together we have continued with our OT Wonder Women project. Thank you to the members who have helped create a logo for the project and to those members who have been helping to design the collage for our project.
OT WonderWomen Logo
This week at Pulling Together we continued with our healthy food project. The group have been sharing tips on how to make their recipes healthier and what they have been preparing. A lot of the group have said how much they have enjoyed this project especially during lock down as some of them have not been confident ordering food from the takeaway and this has given them more choices. Some of the members have said that they will be using the recipes from our book and the tips they have learnt during the month of Ramadan instead of the usual fried samosas and pakore that they usually make.
This week at Pulling Together we began the actual cooking part of our Asian Food can Be Healthy Too. After delivering food to group members we held a Zoom session in the evening and members showed what they had cooked and decided what they would be preparing with their individual food packs.
This week at Pulling Together we have continued with our OT Wonder Women project. We continued with creating our magazine covers.
This week at Pulling Together we completed our Body Talk Project. Thank you to Comic Relief for funding this online project. We have enjoyed being part of a group that has met on Zoom twice weekly to discuss, design and decide what was to be in this project. Learning new skills and gaining confidence to find and join online classes to boost our mental and physical health has been a main part of this project. Also the chance to create collages, comic book scenarios of dialogues we had during the sessions, looking at celebrity culture and a being able to discuss our worries in a safe space has been beneficial to all the members.
This is the Body Talk presentation that we made during our project sessions.
This week we looked at “mirror messages” and how we can use them to improve of mental health and wellbeing. Mirror messages are part of a campaign that use post-it notes stuck on mirrors to remind people of the value of self-esteem in a perfect image culture. They can be stuck on bathroom mirrors in schools and at home to give you and others a positive feeling as you look in the mirror.
These were just some of the things we decided would be useful to boost self confidence.
This week at Pulling Together we have started to talk about out latest project “OT Wonderwomen.” This is a project that will explore how to become an Old Trafford Wonder Woman. By the end of the project we hope to have a team of women/young girls who know where to get advice and give support to other women in their local community. All of the sessions will be held online via Zoom but materials will be delivered /posted to the group members so they can participate in creating a Wonderwomen collage of positive words and imagery as a reminder of this lockdown project. Pulling Together would like to thank GMCVO for funding this project .
This week we looked at positive female role models and what they have done that can inspire us in our day to day lives. Women such as Kamala Harris, Malala Yousaf, Nadiya Hussain and Michelle Obama were some of the names that came up in our discussions and the group decided that they would like to focus on these positive role models as a base for the collage.
In this weeks’ sessions we continued with our presentation but we also had fun playing “Body Positive Bingo” and an online disco with members of the group and their families. It was decided that both activities were great fun and should be done again soon.
Pulling Together Asian Women's Group 