Volume 4 - Issue 2 Spring 1999
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Our Winter Newsletter is a little late...
You may have noticed that our winter newsletter is just now arriving, when
here in Minnesota we're finally starting to think Spring! Our WRAP offices
have been very busy with direct services these past few months. The work we
do with battered women and their children always comes first, so the
newsletter was pushed back a few times. We hope the issue will be full of
useful information for you and worth the wait! Women's Rural Advocacy
Programs relies heavily on volunteers. Each of our programs is staffed by
only one paid staff person, so we depend on the generous support of
volunteers right now.
What kind of work do our volunteers do?
WRAP Angels help out in all different ways. Some volunteers answer our
crisis lines during the weekends, while others provide weekend emergency
transportation to safehousing (advocates for both of these positions are
particularly needed right now). Other volunteers help staff offices, provide
court advocacy, answer phones, put up posters, serve on local committees,
maintain our website, do general office work, help with grant writing and
fund-raising, and much more. If you have a special talent or interest, we
can tailor your volunteer work to your needs. A Minneapolis artist created
posters for the Cottonwood County office, for instance. Men, women and
children have helped out in many different individual ways.
Why do people volunteer for WRAP?
Work Experience: DeAnn, Val and Alicia (WRAP Coordinators) all started in
this field as volunteers. If you're interested in one day working with
survivors of domestic or sexual violence, the experience is invaluable.
To fulfill requirements: Some volunteers need to perform community service
work for family services or school, and they choose to do the work where
they know it will make a difference.
To "Give something back": Many of our volunteers are survivors of
violence who want to continue the cycle of helping women and their children
become safe from abuse. This has a "snowball" effect -- If you help 20 women
get safe and they go on to help 20 others...
To empower themselves
Because they are needed!!
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Cottonwood County - What is Feminism? A few thoughts |
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Yellow Medicine County - Warning Signs of Domestic Abuse/Remembering Latisha |
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Criminal Justice Intervention - Domestic Violence Investigation Training/Protecting Calls for Help |
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Lyon County - Clothesline Project |
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Lincoln County - Family and Community Violence Prevention Committee/Battered Women's Action Day |
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Redwood County - Services Offered/"Every Woman Deserves a Poem" |
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Our Website - Information and updates |
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Support Group Information, Sponsors, and Thanks |