Virginia Wangare Greiner

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Virginia Wangare Greiner, 2015

Virginia Wangare Greiner (born June 26, 1959 in Eldoret , Kenya ) is a Kenyan social worker. She has lived in Germany since 1986 and has been an elected member of the KAV ( municipal representation of foreigners in Frankfurt am Main ) since 2015 . She has received numerous awards for her achievements in the field of integration , including the city of Frankfurt am Main's first integration award in 2001 . In 2006 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .

Origin and professional career

Greiner attended a secondary school in Eldoret, Kenya until 1978 before working with disadvantaged girls in Nairobi in 1979 . From 1984 she was involved in the rural women's project Kondo Farm. She moved to Germany with her husband and children in 1986 and trained as a housekeeper. In 1990 she taught adults about African culture and culinary arts at the Frankfurt Adult Education Center. Between 1992 and 1995 she worked with girls in need in the Frankfurt girls' house FeM and organized cultural trips to Kenya for Germans. In 1996 she became head of the Agisra Africa division. Since 1999 she has been a trainer for intercultural competence at the Hessian police. In 2001 she started working for the city of Frankfurt a. M. as a social and health advisor for Africans. She has been chairwoman of ADE (African Diaspora in Europe) since 2002 and received the city of Frankfurt am Main's first integration award in the same year. Since 2004 she has been the head of the health advice center for African women in Frankfurt. She took over the management and project coordination of Maisha (counseling center for African women in Germany) in 2005.

In 2006 she received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. A year later she was chairwoman of the African Federal Association in Germany, member of the integration forum of the federal government and until 2011 chairwoman of the migrant network in Europe. In 2011 she became a member of the Federal Advisory Council for Integration . Since 2014 she has been a board member of DaMigra - umbrella association of migrant women organizations and from 2015 spokeswoman for INTEGRA (German network for overcoming female genital mutilation). Since 2015 she has been an elected member of the KAV (municipal representation of foreigners in Frankfurt am Main).

voluntary work

She conducts African and church events. She is a volunteer social worker for African women and girls in need, volunteer interpreter for English and Swahili for authorities. She also works with the Frankfurt police. She coordinates the ASA exchange project Africa / Germany. In Hesse she heads the AFYA, the African health network. She founded the German National Platform for Migrants. Greiner has its own obligations within the national integration plan of the federal government. In the Hessian state government she is on the integration advisory board and has built up the FGM network nationwide.

Other integration activities

  • Health promotion for African families
  • Health care for undocumented people (Africa consultation hour)
  • Integration for African women, children and young people
  • HIV and FGM ( female genital mutilation )
  • Integration Advisory Board Frankfurt am Main
  • Working group health and migration
  • Health and care
  • European Network of Migrant Women
  • European Women Lobby
  • Forum for Integration of the Federal Government
  • Kenyan Community in Germany
  • Project partner of the Wiesbaden Police School
  • African Elderly on the Move (MAPAP)
  • German Platform for Migrant Women
  • Health Department "African Health Advice"

Publications

  • with Garnet Algernon Parris: African elderly on the move: Mapaa-Maisha's project for elderly Africans. Maisha, 2012.
  • Africa and FGM Laws: Regional and International Legal Framework to Protect Women and Girls Against FGM. Maisha, 2012.
  • with Garnet Algernon Parris: Thirty FGM Country Profiles. Maisha, 2012.
  • with Garnet Algernon Parris: Modern Day Slavery: African Prostitution in Europe and Africa. Maisha, 2012.
  • with Dörte Rompel: Protecting women and girls from FGM: Information on the ritual circumcision of women and girls using the example of Sierra Leone. Maisha, 2013.
  • An Overview of Trafficking of Women and Children: With Particular Emphasis on Trafficking Within Africa and from Africa to Europe. Maisha, 2013.
  • with Garnet Algernon Parris: Zero Tolerance Poems: Africans Say No to FGM Through Poems. Maisha, 2014.

Awards

  • 1999: "Youth on the move"
  • 2002: Integration Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main
  • 2006: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 2010: Gabriele Strecker Prize
  • 2015: "Nana Yaa Asantewaa (NYA) - The African Achievement Awards"
  • 2017: Elisabeth Norgall Prize

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Virginia Wangare Greiner, Federal Government - portrait. ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the German Federal Government. Retrieved February 4, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundesregierung.de
  2. ↑ a b c Integration Prize Winners 2002, Frankfurt.de Website of the City of Frankfurt am Main. Retrieved March 3, 2020
  3. ↑ a b c press release, Ministry of Justice Website of the Hessian Ministry of Justice. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Virginia Wangare Greiner, Heinrich Böll Foundation Website of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
  5. ↑ Germany has an integration advisory board . In: Demokratieie-spiegel.de. May 24, 2013, accessed January 12, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Board, DaMigra site of the umbrella organization of migrant organizations. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
  7. ^ Spokesperson, Netzwerk-Integra Website of the Network Integra. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
  8. ↑ Diversity moves Frankfurt. Health Department “African Health Advice”, accessed on July 13, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Archive of awards, Soroptmisit website of Soroptimist International Club of Frankfurt am Main. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
  10. ^ Norgall Prize for Virginia Wangare-Greiner . In: Journal Frankfurt . ( journal-frankfurt.de [accessed on July 13, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Greiner, Virginia Wangare
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kenyan social worker and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Eldoret , Kenya