Our Kawartha Lakes community is a wonderful place. It also has aspects that many of us don’t know about, and that we might find hard to believe. But just because we have trouble accepting them doesn’t mean they don’t exist, causing real women and girls real harm. Sex trafficking — forcing another person to [...]
Why we need to stand together Pride Week is coming up soon in Kawartha Lakes. Why is that something we care about at Women’s Resources? Well, the stark reality is that those who oppose women’s rights to reproductive choice and promote male-dominated heterosexual relationships tend to also oppose the rights of folks who are [...]
Please be aware that this post contains descriptions of violence. A hidden price: Women who have been beaten by a partner or loved one have all kinds of injuries, but some of the most important are the ones you can’t see. If a man slams a woman’s head against the floor or a wall, [...]
There’s nothing quite like the Women’s Resources volunteer experience “Women’s Resources makes a real difference in our community,” says Ruth Fallding. And she should know—she’s been helping out one day a week for a full 10 years in our fund development office, entering donation data, creating receipts and thank-you letters, and much more. Ruth [...]
This is the eleventh year for the Marquee Event. The original idea was to help raise awareness of the work of Women’s Resources, but also to raise money through a signature performance by top-flight Canadian performers. The first Marquee Event in 2011 featured entrepreneur and Dragon’s Den star Arlene Dickinson. It has brought outstanding [...]
Wow. Just . . . wow. As we start a new year, we are so grateful for the compassionate support we receive from you, the community we serve, because that compassion flows right to those who need it most: women and children working to escape violence and build lives of dignity. We know the [...]
Our exciting new project to help women reclaim their lives Escaping an abusive situation and learning how to survive and even thrive isn’t a quick process, nor one that happens on a definite timeline. Although women and their children find safety and support at our shelter, Victoria’s, that’s only the first stage of rebuilding [...]
Watch for this sign that someone needs help: It’s simple, and it could save a life. The Canadian Women’s Foundation developed the Violence at Home Signal for Help as a way for women or girls isolated during the pandemic to silently indicate while on a video call that they feared abuse. The idea was [...]
It’s always easiest when the people we look up to are perfect, isn’t it? When they live with integrity, demonstrate moral behaviour at every turn and never say anything ill-considered or thoughtless. The problem, of course, is that nobody is actually like that. Certainly the Famous Five weren’t. Those were the courageous women whose [...]
Victoria’s is a refuge for women and their children When women arrive at Victoria’s Women’s Shelter and realize that they are now truly safe, they disappear for the first few days. Not because they’re scared — quite the opposite. “They just sleep. Their bodies need to recover,” says Penny Chatson, Residential Services Manager. For [...]
