Women Enabling Women
“Sharing Is Caring”
An Invitation Benefit for Women
Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009
Time: 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
Location: GCC Cafeteria
Tickets: $10.00
GCC’s Women Enabling Women Club is currently working to support three local shelters – Mother/Child, Anna Sample House and Eleanor Corbett House. On March 19th, they will host an luncheon event. Everyone is welcome to attend and learn more how these shelters assist our communities. Please donate new and gently used clothing for women and children, baby items, and bedding items. Gift cards to various stores are also welcome (such as: Target, Wal-Mart, Bed, Bath & Beyond, TJMaxx, etc.). All donations are also being graciously accepted.
Tickets are being sold for $10.00 and should be purchased by March 16th. Please contact the Student Activities office at (856) 415-2243 for tickets or information.
Women Enabling Women
The goal of Women Enabling Women is to encourage, enlighten and empower women attending Gloucester County College and to provide community service to women and their children in Gloucester and Camden counties.
Donations
The shelters provide emergency and transitional housing for homeless women with children, women of domestic violence, and substance abusers.
Tonight, 100,000 children will sleep in a shelter, abandoned building, or on the violent streets of this country. Nearly 500,000 families comprising of one million children will remain homeless this year in the United States. What is even equally distressing is that 120,000 of the families requesting emergency shelter will be turned away. And statistics reveal that 90% of these homeless families are headed by women who in almost every case have been physically and/or sexually abused. Tragically enough, almost 70% of them had been abused by the age of 12.
When faced with homelessness, children are at great risk for abuse which causes severe disruption during their childhood that often prevents them from obtaining adequate levels of education and training. And homeless women who have been victimized will face significant barriers to employment. Without appropriate support services, the emotional consequences of abuse, such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and depression, will interfere with women’s efforts to work.
We would greatly appreciate your assistance with our community service event by donating any new or gently used clothing. Please contact Amanda Harrell, Program Coordinator at 856-415-2243 or aharrell@gccnj.edu or Dr. Lawson-Briddell, Director of Freshman Year Experience/Advisor, Women Enabling Women at 856-415-2243 or llawsonb@gccnj.edu.
You may also contact the Student Activities office at (856) 415-2243 for more information.
