Rotary Centennial Award of $100,000 to Working Women Community Centre, The Women's Meeting Place
Please join us at our Special Friday Centennial Luncheon
On January 18, 2013 at The Fairmont Royal York, Upper Canada Room
Highlighting:
The Rotary Club of Toronto Centennial Award of $100,000 granted to
Working Women Community Centre for its innovative Program:
“ The Women’s Meeting Place”
The Centennial Award of The Rotary Club of Toronto has provided working women with an important space for an underserved group in the city- immigrant women. The Woman’s Meeting Place will provide immigrant women and their families access to a safe and welcoming place to come together, build skills, and support each other as they settle into the Toronto community. It will provide a supportive environment for both formal programming and informal connections. Marcie Ponte, Working Women’s Executive Director states, “Too often newcomers remain isolated because they cannot afford to rent space to come together as a community group.”
Working Women Community Centre has been serving immigrant women for over 35 years providing a myriad of programs and services including: settlement counseling, employment training and placement, language instruction, women’s support groups, and community engagement initiatives.
Working Women is well-known for making immigrant women feel they not only have a right but a responsibility to realize their full potential. Contributing to the community has always been a cornerstone of the agency’s mission. The Women’s Meeting Place will act as a hub for many of the agency’s community engagement activities.
The creation of The Women’s Meeting Place marks the first collaboration between the Rotary Club of Toronto and Working Women Community Centre and hopefully the beginning of more to come.