Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre

BBQ at Crab Park; Welcome to new volunteers this month 16 new ones; Women's Words Poetry and Prose from the DTES; Donations Committee Update, speak to Cynthia re raffle; Clothing room update; Hepatitis C frequently asked questions - What is Hepatitis? How does Hepatitis C usually begin? How is it transmitted?; Calendar - Chinese Women's Group; Massage; Street Nurse; Sweat Lodge; Carnegie Crafts; Painting; Crochet with Anna and Freda; Fabric Arts with Freda; Music Jam; Women's Health Clinic; BWSS; Taiko Drumming; Parent Tot Drop-In; Nail Wednesday; News from Management; Bernie Williams active in community; Mural Discussion; DEWC Book Club back starting before September; Single Mother's Resource Guide Artwork Contest VSW offering $250 for creation of front cover design; Recipe Eva's Delicious Rice Pudding; Poem - How to become a happier Person

Catch up with the events for Oct and plan your weeks with lots of fun; Get emotional with one of our many poets; Do you have housing problems then talk to pivot which now comes to the DEWC; Bedbugs got you down? then come to the class to learn how to fix the problem

Sexual Assault - how can friends and family of the sexually assaulted help? List of concerns from the Community Counsultation Meeting; Groups and Outings; Finance Update from Beneita Bunjun; Calendar; Chinese Women's Group, Carnegie Crafts, Literacy Workshops, Massage, Resume Workshop, Massage, Street Nurse, BWSS, First Nations Women's Support Worker, Legal Advocate, Yoga - with Janet, Sweat Lodge with Reta, Arts and Crafts Workshops, Beading with Denny, Crochet with Anna and Freeda, Fabric Arts with Freeda, Dreamcatchers with Denny, Evening Programming; BWSS, Music Jam, Women's Health Clinic; Canadian Mental Health Assoc.; Vancouver/Burnaby is hosting a tax reduction clinic; Want to Volunteer? Hospital visits is a new voluntary position; Barring Guidelines; March 21st International Day for elimination of Racism; Alcohol and Drug Counseling Advocacy at DEYAS; Poetry - Living in Fear by Sandra Jim; Hell, Heaven, Earth by Sandra Jim; Because We Are Women written by Joyce Stevens; DEWC 27th Anniversary, Who we are and how we came to be, our mission, our purpose

DEWC Staff: who's who, with names and brief job descriptions of each; Regular Programming: Chinese Women's Group (CWS); Literacy Workshop; French Speaking Group; Massage; Street Nurse: provide information on health issues weekly; Arts and Crafts workshops: Beading with Denny; Crochet; with Anna and Freda; Fabric Arts with Freda; Dreamcatchers with Denny. Evening programming: Battered Women Support Services; Music Jam: sing and play instruments with special guests; Women's Health Clinic; medical advocacy. Poem (untitled) by Selina K. Barton; Victim Education Group: an education group for aboriginal women who have been victims of crime; National Film Board's Missing Women Documentary; Aboriginal Women's Legal Advocacy Workshops: BWSS and DEWC host series of workshops for aboriginal women