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This award recognises an outstanding woman in leadership, a woman who has contributed positively to promoting women, communities or group development in WA’s African Australian community. The award acknowledges high level innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship and a commitment to creating transformative change at a grass roots community level or beyond.
Emma Assadi
Emma Assadi is an ardent achiever in her field of work. Through her role in Richmond Wellbeing and CaLD community, she has been instrumental in saved a lot people from becoming homeless. She introduces Richmond Wellbeing as a mental health provider to many communities through her networking abilities. These have earned her severally recognition in her field of work.
Emma is a true community leader that uses her skills to link communities to funding sources for their members in need. She is selfless and encourages people to work on themselves, belief in themselves and encourage them to support communities as well.
She is involved in many communities and community activities, key ones are the Courageous Women Multicultural network (CWMN), OMI – office of multicultural interest, etc. Her role in the communities gained her the OACWA Excellence in Innovation award in 2018.
Kindly join us congratulate Emma for her immense leadership and service to the community in diverse ways.
Theresa D’Emden
Theresa D’Emden is an astute business consultant that coaches and develop new business owners to manage and execute their business plans with the end goal of creating employment.
She has over the years excelled in this role and has been recognised and now working with the Business Foundations and the Metropolitan Migrant Resource Centre (MMRC) to coach and develop business owners for business process and development.
She has also been an active part of the community and been recognised by the Organisation of Zambians Living in Western Australia (OZALIWA) for the Business Excellence award.
She is also into empowering people from migrant background to become self-employed by starting their businesses. This aligns with her vision of empowering migrant communities especially Africans to gain knowledge on how businesses work in Australia. She keeps faith in this through organising workshops and training on enterprise skills and business model canvassing.
Theresa is a passionate business consultant interested in empowering the migrants in business. She is a member of the Bassendean Business Networks.
Distinguished ladies and gentlemen kindly join us in congratulating Theresa in her persistent role in ensuring that African’s thrive in the world of business in Australia.
