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Projects
Gardening For All Ages
Just in time for spring, we are trying to get our new Gardening For All Ages project off the ground. As literature supports, and most of us know from experience, working with the earth can be very healing. We at Women's Aid would like to turn our backyard into a space where adults and children alike can nurture themselves through gardening. Our goal is to not only provide this environment for our clients while they are here, but to provide them with the information and possibly materials to continue if they wish, after they leave. Imagine a teenager starting a little green plant at the shelter and later eating a wonderful red tomato they have grown themselves.What We Need to Get Started
Leaf rakes (1 adult, 1 child)
Garden rake
Shovel
Trowel
Trellis
Pitch fork
Peat
Humus
Edging
Seeds (herbs, flowering plants, vegetables, etc.)
Plants
Compost material container (chicken wire, pallets, stakes, etc...we can be creative)If anyone in the community would like to lend their expertise, time, or materials, please contact us. We would love to hear from you.
Friends of a Feather
Along with gardening, we would like to get a little something going that involves bird feeding, housing, and watching. Our Friends of a Feather project would involve parents and children in building houses, creative feeders, and bird identification. Optimally, we would like to have enough materials so that everyone could not only install some of their creations at the shelter, but be able to take some home with them as well.
What We Need to Get Going
Lumber (4x4 posts, 2x4s, 1x5s, 1x6s)
Any materials that can be made into a bird feeder or a bird house
Nesting materials
Bird seed (black oil sunflower, cracked corn, thistle seed, mixed seed)
Humming bird sugar mix
Humming bird feeders
Suet cages and cakes
Meal worms
Hammers (1 adult, 1 child)
NailsWe cannot wait to hear the little ones squeal with joy at a bird feeding out of something they have made. If you have any suggestions or want to help out, please let us know by giving us a call.
The Clothesline Project is a group of people from all backgrounds. We stand together committed to challenging our outward and internalized homophobia, racism, and sexism and other oppressions. We make the connections between these violences and the violence we experience as women.
The Clothesline Project is a visual display that bears witness to the violence against women. During the public display, a clothesline is hung with shirts. Each shirt is decorated to represent a particular woman's experience, by the survivor herself or by someone who cares about her.
We started with thirty-one shirts hung in Hyannis, Massachusetts in the Fall of 1990. Since that time, projects have begun in communities all across the country and in other countries as well. The purpose of the project is four-fold.1. To bear witness to the survivors as well as the victims of the war against women.
2. To help with the healing process for people who have lost a loved one or are survivors.
3. To educate, document, and raise society's awareness of the extent of the problem of violence against women.
4. To provide a nationwide network of support, encouragement and information for other communities starting their own Clothesline Projects.
WHITE for women who have died of violence;
YELLOW or BEIGE for women who have been battered or assaulted;
RED, PINK or ORANGE for women who have been raped or sexually assaulted;
BLUE or GREEN for women survivors of incest or child sexual abuse;
PURPLE or LAVENDER for women attacked because of their sexual orientation.
You need not be an artist to create a moving, personal tribute. Whether you choose simply to paint or sew elaborate embroidery is up to you, any remembrance is appropriate. These colors are not mandatory if a different color or pattern has a special significance to you.
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