Kelowna Women's Resource Centre

Seniors Project (Women Helping One Another)

Women Working Together to Improve Our Lives

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This volunteer driven initiative seeks to increase senior women's involvement and inclusion in our community, encourage senior women to share their skills, experience and wisdom, and enhance cultural understanding in our community. Through our volunteer program senior women will act as mentors, trainers, and educators. This initiative utilizes a peer support approach that is responsive to the diversity of women's experience and will benefit women who are marginalized in our community.

Certain rights we enjoy as women today were won for us by women of the past and we need to remove the "generation gap" by providing opportunities for senior women to speak about their experiences.We feel senior women have many skills and abilities to share with younger women. We are also aware that many senior women particularly women most marginalized in our community are often isolated and vulnerable to abuse and exploitation.

To encourage senior women to act as mentors, sharing their skills and experience with younger women.
To foster greater understanding and appreciation of our common and diverse experiences as women.

Activities:

Support senior women to share their experiences with younger women through monthly small group meetings.
Develop educational workshops with senior women as leaders.
Provide ongoing opportunities for senior women to share their experiences.
More to come as the project progresses.

If you are interested in participating either as a senior mentor or as a younger woman seeking knowledge please contact us at 250-762-2355 or volcoordinator@kwrc.net .