Women's
Writing and WAG Minutes
Women have also been accumulating a
body of work.
Women have kept
minutes of the WAG meetings, the group has published a somewhat monthly
WISH Newsletter since last year (15 editions), two grant proposals have
been written, and women have posted their creative art and
writing on the walls
of the WISH Learning Centre. These materials offer a great deal of information
about what is happening in the lives of women who work in the sex-trade.
Participant
Questionnaires
Two sets of questionnaires were created to gather
comments from
participants about their learning and their thoughts on the WISH Learning
Centre. The first questionnaire was distributed in May/June 2002 and
the second in May/June 2003. The questions used will be shared
in a later
section.
Year One
At
the end of the first year, we used two opportunities to analyze our
first year's
findings. In the spring of 2002, we heard about the Portraits
of Literacy
Research
Conference scheduled for July at the University of British Columbia in
Vancouver. We wondered if women at the WISH Learning Centre would be
interested in
creating a poster for the conference so we brought it up at the next
Women's Advisory Meeting. We explained that no other literacy project
with sex-trade
workers would be there. Women were interested in having their experiences
be part of
the conference. In order to communicate the importance of
the Learning Centre on a poster, we generated three questions for
women to respond to over the next
few weeks.
How would
you describe the WISH Learning Centre to someone from the
outside? What do you do there? How does it feel?
If the
WISH Learning Centre weren’t here, what would you be
doing?
What
two things would you change about the WISH Learning Centre?
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