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Dear Ladies – I hope you are all safe at shelter – We are experiencing challenges but with these challenges come great opportunities. I wanted to share my report that I had completed to report to our GFWC International Chair and also inform you that I know can attend any of your zoom meetings as a guest. Great thing about it – No gas expense and I promise to wear Make up.

1- “Healthy People, Healthy Planet “ -The GFWC Miami Springs Woman’s Club held its

4th Annual Free Health and Wellness Fair on January 26th 2019. They had over 40 presenters of

community health, wellness, and environmental initiates. Staffed tables full or resources and

give away were available, and ready to discuss programming and individual questions. 32 Club

members volunteered or donated food times, and 322 people signed in as attending from our

community. A vast area of health and wellness topics were covered, from pediatric patients to

seniors. Children local hospitals were represented with Free Bicycle Helmets and proper

fittings for every child, as well as a chance to win one of 10 bicycles. Child safety fingerprinting

from the State Attorney’s Office was performed. Local city health and wellness activates were

promoted such as our city’s youth sports events, yoga, and community pool programs. Our local

Police, Fire and Rescue Vehicles were all on site giving kids yours of their vehicles and talking

about their important work. A local children’s hospital allowing kids and adults to ‘Take 5” fruits

and vegetables for healthy eating; They packed weekend meal bags for children in need of food

to be delivered to our local schools. They had a K9 dog, and Seeing Eye Dogs through

Southeastern Guide Dogs for the Blind to visit. Flu shots and dental care were also provided. 2-“Pink Out Putnam, Again, Bigger and Better:” This event, which began in Welaka, is still

growing each year. The GFWC woman's clubs in Putnam County - Crescent City, Palatka, and

Welaka continue to find additional businesses to ask for donations and find new ways to increase

the number and type of fundraisers. They donate their proceeds to the Putnam First Cancer

Center. The first year they had a $5,000 donation, the second year, $10,000, and the third year,

$12,000. They continued with the successes they had last year which included "pinking out" and

"flocking" yards and businesses, selling pink items, bagging groceries for tips and holding a 5K

fun run/walk/golf cart event. The Woman's Club of Welaka held a BBQ event selling whole pork

butts and full slabs of pork ribs. The town again painted the steps of town hall pink, in honor of

Pink Out Putnam. They had two different events at Chilis, a restaurant in Palatka, where they

give a percentage of their sales for that day to Pink Out Putnam.The Club president made five

different presentations to the Welaka town council to update the town on the status of Pink Out

Putnam. In total they raised over $12,000 to give to Putnam Cancer Center. 3-“Relay for Life”- GFWC Lutz-Land O’Lakes Woman’s Club, INC - Two brunches were served to

the cancer patients and caregivers of Hope Lodge/Moffitt

Cancer Research Hospital, a tradition continues. The Green Shirt Ladies prepared delicious breakfast breads and casseroles for brunch along with serving fruit, cookies, brownies, cakes, doughnuts, juices, coffee and tea. In addition to the food, a huge “Snack Attack” basket was left which was full of goodies for mid-night snacks and for

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patients to take to early morning appointments. One of the artsy members always leaves a piece of artwork for the patients to enjoy when they are in the dining area. The “Quilt of Hope” for the 2020 Relay for Life is finished, and they kicked-off the fund-raising by having the quilt and donation opportunities at the 2019 Arts and Crafts Show the first weekend of December. The Home Life ladies manned the “Quilt of Hope” booth for 2 days.

4- “ Let’s get Pinned” – GFWC Nature Coast Woman’s Club -Partnered with their local

Juniorettes to make and deliver Lapel pins and corsages to their local Assisted Living

Facility. They made and deliver over 100 corsages and pins. This was a great experience

for the young ladies to learn about aging and longevity in today’s society.

5- “ Angels in Wedding Gowns “ – GFWC High Springs New Century Woman’s Club

met monthly during the year for a very sad but wonderful project. These ladies sewed

burial gowns and blankets for babies. The donated garments were processed, designed,

sewn, sorted, documented packaged and shipped to hospitals all thru out the state. The

ladies also crocheted, knitted and sewed blankets for funeral homes. They completed 900

hours in this loving, sad project and donated $500 dollars of in- kind donations. There

were 563 gowns and cocoons and 57 blankets made. There were given to 4 different

facilities.

6-“ The Giving Store “ -GFWC Grand Haven Woman’s Club – Collects gifts and holds

a rummage sale to collect money to operate this yearly store where School aged children

are able to select holiday gifts for family members free of charge – This year the giving

store took over $8,899 worth of gifts to The Agriculture Center for these children and

families to enjoy and have gifts during Christmas . 7-“SMART Ride “ – GFWC Coral Gables woman’s club – participated in this yearly 165 miles bike

ride from Miami to Key West by manning Pit stops along the way to provide snacks and water to

the riders – Every year it is a different theme and the ladies dress up in costumes for their pit

stops which start at 4:30 am to set up in each different points totaling 3 days of volunteering –

This year the club donated $3200 dollars’ worth for sponsors plus $600 in kind donations – This

year the total amount raised for AIDS prevention and treatment was $1,364,325. These ladies

volunteered over 484 hours in this project.

8-“Paint your Heart Out “ -The GFWC North Pinellas Woman’s Club Teamed up with The GFWC

Pinellas Juniorettes and their community partner Paint your Heart Out and they painted the

exterior of over 10 houses for low income and disabled Families. They also worked and

completed beautiful landscaping to these homes too to bring color and smiles to these families.

9-“ The Voice” GFWC Rotonda West Woman’s Club “ have their own singing group

The Tonettes” These ladies rehearse and are ready to bring cheer by song thru out the

year to so many organizations and facilities – The therapy of song and music has been

proven to have health benefits – These ladies visited Englewood Health and Rehab center

during St Patrick’s day. They also visited Brooksdale assisted facility and Heritage Oaks

Assisted facility. They traveled to Port Charlotte to entertain the residents of Lexington

Manor. In July they went to sing at Grand Villa home. Keep singing ladies!!!

10-“Children’s Pearly Smiles” – The GFWC Coral Gables woman’s club founded a

dental clinic for underprivileged children in 1939. The clinic provides free dental care to

low- income children in Miami-Dade County. They held several fundraising events this

year, a Halloween party for the community, a themed dinner gala and many other

smaller events raising over $18,000.. In addition, they applied and received 2 grants

totaling $35,000. All so they could see 591patients and provided $243,691 worth of free

dental care to these children. There are 3 dentist and 1 Hygienist.