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BPW Cambridge members involvement in the Community
Awareness in the community
We are busy posting to bring awareness to the Human Trafficking crisis in our community.
Helping our Local Hospice, December 2022
At our Christmas Dinner & Social, members and guests donated items for Lissard & Innisfree Hospice.
Pictured (l to r): Lin Buxton, Ruth Thompson, Margaret High, Sarah Gage, Jodi Williams, Penny Martin, Mary Balfour and Kim Walker
Pictured (l to r): Lin Buxton, Ruth Thompson, Margaret High, Sarah Gage, Jodi Williams, Penny Martin, Mary Balfour and Kim Walker
Hospice Donations
Member Jodi Williams distributing our donations at a Hospice.
Presenting the Ontario Brief, November 2022
Members Lin Buxton and Jodi Williams met with Brian Riddell, MPP
A Volunteer Initiative to Help the World’s Poor, March 2020
Our members welcomed Janet Asbury, representing Cambridge’s Happy Mat Ladies at our dinner meeting. BPW Cambridge collects thousands of outer milk bags every year to be weaved into sleeping mats for people in third world countries.
Member Margaret High displaying a finished sleeping mat.
Member Margaret High displaying a finished sleeping mat.
The Period Purse
Striving to achieve menstrual equity, February 2020
Our members welcomed Kate Elliot and Kevin Hiebert at our dinner meeting and annual candle lighting ceremony. Numerous urgently needed items were collected by our members from the public to donate to homeless women.
Pictured Kevin and Kate speaking about the Period Purse.
Pictured Kevin and Kate speaking about the Period Purse.
The Period Purse
Member Amanda Robinson, with some of the donations collected by our members.
BPW of Cambridge in partnership with City of Cambridge held a Human Trafficking Awareness event, November 2019.
Pictured Kelly Tallon Franklin, Courage for Freedom, “Canada’s Leading Expert in Anti-Human Trafficking Awareness and Certification” .
Human Trafficking Awareness Event
BPW members: Angela Wilson, Lin Buxton and Margaret High.
International Day to End Human Trafficking, July 30, 2019
Dignitaries joined us at ONroute Cambridge, 401 W.
The Cambridge OnRoute event was predominately featured on CTV Kitchener News!
International Day to End Human Trafficking, July 30, 2019
BPW members from Cambridge, Kitchener-Waterloo, Niagara Falls and Brampton
International Day to End Human Trafficking
Project OnRoute BPW Ontario July 2019. Celebrating lunch afterwards.
Members Met with Belinda Karahalios, MPP, March 2019
Margaret High, Lin Buxton, Belinda Karahalios, MPP and Amanda Robinson.
Soroptomist Annual Womens Day Walk, March 2019
March 2019
Member Margaret High participating in Soroptomist Annual Womens Day Walk.
Christmas Social, December 2018
Members Phyllis Hemingway, Lin Buxton, Margaret High and Mary Balfour filling a basket with donated items and gift cards for pregnant and parenting youth of Monica Place, Cambridge.
BPW Garage Sale, May 2018
BPW Cambridge fundraiser garage sale. Members Laura Thomas, Margaret High and Lin Buxton.
Flash Mob in Cambridge!
March 2015
Councillor Jan Liggett, joined by Kathryn McGarry, MPP and Lin Buxton, Past President BPW Cambridge came out to support in raising awareness of human trafficking in our community. (Event was put on by Soroptomist International Cambridge)
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