By battlefordsNOW

100 Women Who Care group makes sizeable donation

Jun 12, 2017 | 2:00 PM

A women’s group called 100 Women Who Care made a generous donation of $13,300 to Living Skies Refuge on June 8.

The group meets four times a year to nominate local charities, and each member makes a commitment to donate $100 four times a year. While 100 Women Who Care’s Battlefords branch has only been in operation for a year, the group already has over 160 members.

“All of us [have] the same goal to help a very deserving charity in our community, and make the Battlefords a better place to live for everyone,” Ilona Bannerman, a steering committee member of the group, said. “We get to showcase all the different charities, so the only requirement is that the charity have a CRA number, and that it be local. Local meaning within a 60 kilometre radius of the Battlefords.”

The group nominates charities, and then randomly selects three to invite to the next meeting. Members of each chosen charity give a five-minute oral presentation to the group, and then a secret ballot is cast to select the winner.

The winner is then presented with the donation, and is invited to the next meeting to tell the group about what they have done with the money.

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Charities such as the Battlefords Sexual Assault Centre and the Canadian Mental Health Association were recipients at previous meetings, and this time the group is helping bring a Syrian refugee family to the Battlefords.

“It’s a young couple with three small children…and have been stuck in a refugee camp in Mosul, Iraq,” Bannerman said. “Mosul is so dangerous now that [Living Skies Refuge] is desperately trying to raise money to get them out of there.”

“Hopefully we’ll get them here soon, and settled and safe,” she added.

Bannerman praised 100 Women Who Care, its members, and sponsors, noting the group’s kind and giving nature.

“As we know, there’s the ripple effect, and when someone is helped in such a profound way that’s life saving and life altering in a positive way, we know that they in turn will also have a positive impact on others,” she said. “That’s what we want in the Battlefords.”

jared.gottselig@jpbg.ca

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