Quite a bit later…

I said I was going to write the story and tell how seven women are now 700 weaviing in and out of the makings of A Woman’s Work so here I am back at it. The original seven women gathered around a table with wine and martinis and decided that there were women who were falling through the cracks all around us. Much later I said that we are about catching women and their families when they stumble so they don’t have to fall. What does that mean. Well it has meant that we paid a car payment so a woman could still drive to work and take her kids to daycare and get groceries. It means helping a woman get clothing that is suitable for a new job after being unemployed so long her closets are empty. It means helping a young mother pay rent so she can get her little boy medical care that she would not be allowed if she was working.

The face of A Woman’s Work today is so very different than when we started seven years ago. While the improvements we have made to our operations make us a stronger and better organization, I often long for the simplicity of just getting started. I am excited about the other cities that have started and are startiing similar organizations. In Big Piney, Wyoming they have A Woman’s Work who is doing amazing things for their community. In Greeley, Colorado they started Women2Women and it is helping the women who are stumbling there. Most recently, Lake Havasu, AZ, has started Women With Willpower and they, too, are helping women in need in a timely manner.  I think I will jump to now so I can tell this story in a fresh way.