Women’s charity calendar goes on sale

By Kernan Andrews

The City of Galway VEC Women’s Community Education Calendar was launched on Monday in the Galway City Museum by the award winning poet Rita Ann Higgins.

The community education calendar project involves 11 voluntary women’s community groups from around the city who have each taken a photograph for the calendar that represents their identity as a group.

Following a series of workshops with a VEC digital photography tutor, the groups went about their task in capturing an image that they felt gave a sense of what their group was about. Each one submitted a photograph and information about their particular group which will be included in the calendar.

Those groups involved include Bohermore Ladies Club, Bohermore Time Out ladies group, Renmore ICA, Mervue Ladies Club, Making A Difference Traveller Women’s Group Ballybane, Brighter Futures Traveller Women’s Group Ballinfoille, Ballybane Beg Women’s Group, For Us Now Westside women’s group, Baile an Choiste Women’s Group, Eastside Women’s Group, and Shining Stars Traveller Women’s Group, Westside.

The calendar costs €5 and will be sold by the groups in their communities in the run-up to Christmas. All proceeds will go to Cope Galway’s Waterside House programme, which provides services for women and children who experience domestic violence.

For more information on this project or the community education service contact Dónal Walsh on 091 - 549400.

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