Centre
Herstory:
| In 1972, a group of local women organized to
form the Newfoundland Status of Women Council. The funding group of twenty
women invested one hundred dollars of their own in order to put a down-payment
on a house to be used as a safe space for women to gather. The Council
conceived and brought forward projects such as the St.John's Women's Centre,
Iris Kirby House, the St.John's Rape Crisis Centre, and many, many other
projects.
In the late seventies the NSWC had to change it's name to the St.John's Status of Women Council, because at that time other Status of Women Council's started popping up around the island. The members of the SJSWC meet a least once a year to elect members of a Steering Committee and other committees to generate various events and projects , including the SJSWC's Women's Centre. The SJSWC is currently working on a centre herstory calender, for more information please contact the SJSWC. |