Next Lunch - Shoalhaven Empowered Women's Charity Lunch - 18th October 2017

SAVE THE DATE - Wednesday 18th October 2017

Shoalhaven Empowered Women's Charity Lunch

I am so excited to announce that our next guest speaker - TRACY LUMB

TRACY LUMB is the Manager of the Shoalhaven Women’s Health Centre, a community women's health centre that provides holistic health care for women from lower socio economic and disadvantaged backgrounds.

Tracy brings seventeen years of professional experience in community development and capacity building with a focus on training and education for women who may have experienced barriers to this in the past. Her commitment and expertise in this work is motivated by her strong sense of social justice and equality for all women in education and access to affordable high quality health care that works from a model of holistic integrated care developed by women for women.

Shoalhaven Women’s Health Centre (SWHC) began in 1983 from rented premises in Nowra from donations of money from local women. The Family Planning Clinic was funded by Doctors working on Medicare and staffed volunteers from the Health Centre Collective. In 1984 they were finally granted Department of Health funding.

SWHC is a multidisciplinary integrated health service with a preventative health care focus. The centre recognises that all women have a right to be treated with dignity and respect in an environment which provides for privacy, confidentiality, informed consent and safety.

Whilst they receive a certain amount of funding from the Department of Health, they basically operate on a shoestring, so all donations are welcome with the funds going towards programs and workshops for women of all ages. They are always in need of personal items for women, e.g. sanitary items, toiletries, hair dyes etc. 

I would like to ask you if you could bring an item to our lunch.

I am truly excited to welcome Tracy Lumb as our guest speaker and Shoalhaven Women’s Health Centre as our fund raising recipient.

So please SAVE THE DATE – Wednesday 18^th October 2017. 

The centre also participates in SHARE THE DIGNITY - an organisation that was formed to help homeless and women in domestic violence shelters access sanitary pads. It is shocking to think that these women each month brought a shameful and traumatic experience, suffering indignities such as having to clean themselves in public toilets and use paper towels and newspaper to create makeshift sanitary pads.

The centre has a box on their front porch - 5 McGrath Avenue, Nowra, where you can drop off the sanitary pads and tampons.

Each year in November they also participate in Its in the bag collection, which provides a gift to a woman in need at Christmas time. So don't throw away your nice handbags and fill it with items for a lady eg personal items.

So many things we can do to assist these women in crisis situations, so please give it some thought.