 Linda McAvan MEPAccessibility:
   Working in Europe for everyone in Yorkshire and The Humber
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 WelcomeWelcome to the website of Linda McAvan, Labour MEP for Yorkshire and The Humber. Linda McAvan was born and brought up in Eccleshill, Bradford and now lives in Sheffield with her husband Paul. She is one of six MEPs representing the region, and since the 2009 European election the sole Labour representative. Linda McAvan was first elected as an MEP in a 1998 by-election to represent the Yorkshire South seat for Labour. Under the new proportional representation system she headed Labour’s regional list for Yorkshire and the Humber and was elected in 1999, 2004 and again in 2009. Linda represents her home region as the only Labour Member of Parliament for Yorkshire and the Humber. International Women’s Day Dinner 2012
To mark International Women’s Day each year Linda hosts fundraising events which in the past have been given fantastic support from women from all over Yorkshire and the Humber. Together, since 2006, we have raised around £35,000 for women’s charities, with the main recipients being the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Eithiopa and the Tasibeh Girls’ School in Pakistan. |
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This year we have decided to support Practical Action’s Hitting Hunger Hard campaign which is dedicated to helping families meet their food needs in Sudan, a country where nine out of 10 people live in acute poverty. Based in Kassala state, eastern Sudan, Hitting Hunger Hard will help families grow their own food by funding small scale farming technologies, skills training and basic food processing. The specific part of the project we are raising funds for is Practical Action’s plan to introduce 40 women’s co-operative farms, which cost just under £300 each and will allow women to work together to improve their incomes. 