We've had an incredibly positive response from everyone out there, and it has been encouraging and strengthening to find that there are so many of you willing to support us. While there have been vows to help us make this party on Thursday the biggest success possible, we've also had people inquiring on how to make a more long-term difference and how they can continue to support this cause, even in the future.
We too intend on supporting this shelter not only in the immediate present, but also in all their developments and endeavours in the future. It will be a long journey, but we are prepared to stand by them through it and ensure that they have our help and commitment at any given time. At this stage, the funds raised from this party will be used to (literally) put a roof over these women's heads and set up a fund to help the women get back on their feet. We have plans of making our efforts more large scale in the future, thus ensuring that the outcome will result in bigger changes, like the development of branches of the shelter outside of The Western Province, so that we eventually reach women everywhere. We would like to initiate and maintain programmes that help these women in more than a temporary and financial way; we would like to arrange for them to be taught various skills so that they may find jobs and become self sufficient, independent and strong, because this is the kind of life we believe every woman needs to live. Needless to say, our ultimate goal would be to make a measurable impact on society in erradicating violence and discrimination against women altogether. We will work towards making education our key to success in teaching people to understand the importance of harmony and respect between human beings. This could take much longer than we anticipate, but we will continue to strive towards the creation of this new society which respects and accepts women for who they are. No matter how difficult the job, we know that our attempts will not be in vain. We hope that you feel the same burning desire to put an end to violence against women as we do, and we hope that you will see the importance in supporting a cause like our's.
Every great journey begins with one tiny step, and the party on Thursday is just this for us. We have grand plans of changing some of the ways in the world we live in, and we start enacting our plans on the 2nd of March 2006. We hope you will be there to witness it, and participate in making history, and a difference.
We too intend on supporting this shelter not only in the immediate present, but also in all their developments and endeavours in the future. It will be a long journey, but we are prepared to stand by them through it and ensure that they have our help and commitment at any given time. At this stage, the funds raised from this party will be used to (literally) put a roof over these women's heads and set up a fund to help the women get back on their feet. We have plans of making our efforts more large scale in the future, thus ensuring that the outcome will result in bigger changes, like the development of branches of the shelter outside of The Western Province, so that we eventually reach women everywhere. We would like to initiate and maintain programmes that help these women in more than a temporary and financial way; we would like to arrange for them to be taught various skills so that they may find jobs and become self sufficient, independent and strong, because this is the kind of life we believe every woman needs to live. Needless to say, our ultimate goal would be to make a measurable impact on society in erradicating violence and discrimination against women altogether. We will work towards making education our key to success in teaching people to understand the importance of harmony and respect between human beings. This could take much longer than we anticipate, but we will continue to strive towards the creation of this new society which respects and accepts women for who they are. No matter how difficult the job, we know that our attempts will not be in vain. We hope that you feel the same burning desire to put an end to violence against women as we do, and we hope that you will see the importance in supporting a cause like our's.
Every great journey begins with one tiny step, and the party on Thursday is just this for us. We have grand plans of changing some of the ways in the world we live in, and we start enacting our plans on the 2nd of March 2006. We hope you will be there to witness it, and participate in making history, and a difference.
posted by Womyn at 12:46 PM
6 Comments:
Best of luck with it. Specially in the long run.
"It will be a long journey, but we are prepared to stand by them through it and ensure that they have our help and commitment at any given time."
Yes..by throwing a party once a year when a Bday comes around.
"We would like to initiate and maintain programmes t......financial way; we would like to arrange for them to be taught various skills so ...."
BLAH BLAH,BLAH..Let me suggest some thing , how about "We will SHUT the hell up...
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Every great journey begins with one tiny step, and the party on Thursday is just this for us."
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So the party is all about you people? An excuse for spoilt brats to drink.
The above comment was by me btw.
Kulendra: thank you for your support, it means a lot.
Stiflers' mum: This is a serious effort on our part and we were thrilled with last night's response.
It was very encouraging to see how many people wanted to support an end to violence against women.
As for the timing of the event - we're sorry you feel we might have had such a silly reason to have picked the date. Let it suffice to say this was not the case.
Dear Womyn,
I am sure you take birthdays seriously. It is indeed suprising to see such a turn of events. With opportunistic women like you , who needs crazy wife baching husbands to ruin womens lives...
"i would’ve picked exactly the ones who turned up. the music was great, the place was overflowing. it was fun being the birthday girl, as everyone felt the need to buy me a drink. of couse i obliged almost every time. so many people (people i know, people i’ve never met) said happy birthday that by the end of the night i was saying ‘thank you’ in my sleep. there were quite a few blogger personalities present too. scourge, childof25, indi, sophist, ruwani… it was great. i danced with all my girlfriends, my fantastic cousins, my mother, non-stop with intervals only to go find a drink. i was happily high when they sang ‘happy birthday’ much to my embarrassment. someone tried to make me give a speech, but i decided to nod and smile in style rather than attempt speaking coherently after i was way past my stringing-sentences-together stage. the music was mostly retro and hip hop, it was a nice relief from all the commercial techno that seems to be all the rage at our clubs these days. whatever techno they did play was good stuff."
Enough said.
im sorry you think its wrong for one to enjoy themselves. needless to say, i had no idea that i had to sit and explain everything i was saying; i didnt realize i was speaking to people who were determined to see something wrong in what we were doing.
pardon me, i had a blast. apologies if you're actually meant to suffer and whine while fund-raising, but i didnt know this. everyone got what they paid for on thursday by purchasing a ticket and we got more than we expected. the party was a huge success and we hope that we can make it bigger and better in the future so that we may rake in larger finances for the cause.
lastly, what i say in my blog does not whatsoever relfect the nature of our intentions as 'womyn' nor does it say anything about our organization and our work. my blog is a PERSONAL account of things, and its where i jot down MY thoughts and feelings. 'womyn' should not be reprimanded because the 2nd was my birthday nor because i had fun at the party. niether are faults that the organization should pay for!
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