By Gemma Marshall | Donor Relations Manager
Dear Friend,
Thank you so much for supporting Women's Resource Center with your gift. We wanted to send you an update on our work during International Women's Month relating to eliminating violence and how we are continuing to work in our community at this time.
International Women's Day was on 8th March and was such a fun day for our community to celebrate together. Almost 100 people came including students, families (men and women) and children. We shared our acheivements over the last year (see our annual report attached), held a fashion show for the children and women to get involved in and enjoy, and shared some clothes that were donated. Aside from the fun we had we felt this was a good opportunity to make the day educational too and shared information around gender rights - including positive partnerships, legal rights, positive parenting and non violent ways to express stress, frustration and anger. What a great day - we hope you enjoy the attached photos.
We thought you may also be interested to know how we are working flexibly at this time to deliver our services to our community.... Mid March physical distancing was implemented due to COVID19 and we were forced to close our doors to the public, and advise the staff team to work from home. Despite these challenges our team are more determined than ever to support the women and families that we work with and have been phoning those who need support to check on them (especially those we know suffer from domestic abuse and may be more vulnerable at this time), giving out emergency parcels of food and hygiene supplies (photos attached). We are also working on a series of short online workshops to ensure we are still delivering informaiton about positive parenting, financial lteracy, womens rights and gender, women's health and other topics that the community need at this time. We are staying positive, finding ways to deliver our mission and hope you are too!
Thank you for your support, it really makes a difference and allows us to keep supporting our community, even in difficult circmstances.
All the very best to you and your families at this time.
Gemma and the WRC team
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