Service Projects - Making a Difference in Our Community
One-Time Donations
- Trillium Health Centre’s Betty Wallace Women’s
Health Centre - $25,000 donation in support of
this unique initiative, which provides wellness education,
screening, diagnosis, and individual treatment planning
with a special focus on breast care. All this, in a calming,
spa-like environment, respectfully addresses the needs of
women with state of the art technology and expert staff.
 Sponsorship
of the inaugural annual Mary
Fix Memorial Lecture, organized by Heritage
Mississauga. Mayor Hazel McCallion was the featured speaker,
and is an honorary member of the Zonta Club of Mississauga.
Mary Fix, a woman lawyer and visionary political and social
activist was also a member of the Zonta Club of Mississauga.
- $8,000 furnishing grant to Chantal’s
Place – an innovative, safe, private
and comfortable suite at Trillium Health Centre where women
who have been sexually and/or domestically assaulted are
attended to by health professionals and investigating police
officers. Through the creation of this integrated, pleasant
environment, we validate women and their issues.
- Women’s Safety Audit
of the South Common/Glen Erin Trail –Zonta
provided funding for a partnership of the Peel Committee
on Sexual Assault, Peel Committee Against Woman Abuse, sexual
assault survivors and community members to work with METRAC
to conduct this audit in June 2003. Follow-up meetings with
Mayor McCallion and city officials have highlighted safety
issues and solutions in our neighborhoods. Spaces that are
safer for women are safer for everyone.
- $5,000.00 donation to the Carlo
Fidani Regional Cancer Centre at Credit Valley Hospital,
for breast cancer radiation treatment equipment.
- Young Women’s Anti-Violence
Workshops at Mississauga secondary schools
with Z-Clubs. Young and dynamic facilitators from METRAC
(Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women
and Children) conduct interactive, empowering student workshops
on topics of dating violence, sexual assault/date rape or
emotional abuse. These opportunities assist students to
raise awareness, foster discussion, introduce existing community
resources, and motivate students to work towards a violence-free
society.
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