Last Friday we enjoyed our last club breakfast for 2013 and in light of Zonta International’s current 16 days of activism to stop violence against women and White Ribbon Day on the 25th November, we continued with our focus on domestic violence with a fantastic guest talk by Jane Sleight-Leach who shared her story with us and was a true inspiration to the club with her strength and perseverance. Jane also gave us an insight into the Life 2 Project, which is an organisation started by Jane to provide the tools and support to empower women to be confident, true to themselves and able to find peace within their lives. More information about the Life 2 Project can be found at http://www.life2project.com.au/ and we strongly encourage you to read more into the great work Jane is doing.
We also had the honour of inducting our newest club members with an astounding 7 ladies becoming official members of our club. We would like to extent a very warm welcome to our newest members; we really look forward to working with you and feel very lucky to have such a talented group of ladies joining us.
Lastly, as our fundraising efforts this year have been so successful due to the hard work undertaken by our Finance and Fundraising Committee and all of the support received by the Brisbane Community, we have been able to raise an additional $1000 for service projects. We have decided to donate this to the Young Parents Program (http://www.youngparentsprogram.org.au/) who provide a fantastic and much need support service to first time pregnant and parenting young women to improve pregnancy and birthing outcomes for young women during the antenatal period and general health and social outcomes for mothers and babies for the first year in the postnatal period. The particular program we chose to support was the Welcome to Motherhood Pamper pack Project, which provides various items to mothers, for themselves and their newborns such as baby clothes, nappies and lotions to compliment the emotional support offered by the organisation. What a great service!
We wish everyone a very relaxing and safe Christmas, and a Happy New Year. 2014 is looking like it is going to a great year for our club with so many exciting and fun things planned to advocate for the empowerment of women – we can’t wait!