Christmas is Coming!
Cannock Soroptimists are busy getting ready for Christmas – not for themselves but for many who will be in need this year.
Throughout the year they support the Pathway Project and as Christmas approaches they will continue that support, in particular for the women and children using the refuge for women victims of domestic violence. The women and children who use the refuge will have left their homes with nothing and for many of them their whereabouts are unknown to family and friends. So, each Christmas, members of SI provide gifts for the women and the children, who always appreciate the fact that someone else thought of them at Christmas.
Gifts were brought along to the Soroptimist meeting before being taken to the refuge and as always, members were incredibly generous, donating gifts of toys, beauty packs, clothing, books, jewellery…..all the things which women and children enjoy opening on Christmas morning along with wrapping paper, gift bags and gift labels. Some members of SI Cannock recently attended the Pathway AGM and heard at first had some of the harrowing stories from the women who are domestic violence victims – the stories confirmed for Soroptimists the need to support these women and their children in any way they can.
Photo attached: 1. L to r: Soroptimist Kate Young, President SI Cannock & District Lynne Tuckley, President Elect Carole Holdcroft with some of the gifts for Pathway
2. members of SI Cannock & District, President Lynne Tuckley 2nd from left, with some of the gifts for Pathway