GFWC-NC: District7
1304 Hewett Farms Road
Shallotte, NC 28470
ph: (910) 209-1847
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Welcome to the General Federation of Women's Clubs of North Carolina District 7 Website. GFWC-NC District 7 is comprised of hundreds of diverse ladies of all ages who proudly represent Women's Clubs, Juniors and Juniorettes from the following counties: Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Duplin, Pender, New Hanover, Robeson and Sampson.
We are an integral part of The General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC), which is one of the world's largest and oldest non-partisan, non-denominational, women's volunteer service organizations. The GFWC was founded in 1890 and chartered by the 56th United States Congress in 1901.
We hope that you will enjoy perusing our website and that if you are not already a member of GFWC-NC, that you will contact a local club within your community and join us Today! For more information on local clubs please click on the "Club Info" tab on the right side of your screen.
Click Here for our December 2012 Newsletter
GFWC-NC District 7VolunteersTuesday, April 30, 2013 (10:00am)VA Medical CenterWilmington, NC Grand Opening CermonyMark your calendars and plan to join us!
GFWC-NC District 7 Members, attending 2012 SER, presented a $500 donation, on behalf of District 7 members, to GFWC-NC President Wendy Carriker and GFWC-NC Junior Director Crystal O'Neal supporting "Feed the Future". (Pictured L:R- Cindy Hewett, Wendy Carriker, Crystal O'Neal, Peggy Schiavone, Carol Ann Lohman, Ann Landis, BJ Stephens and Julie Rigsbee.Introducing the 2012- 2014 GFWC-NC President's and Junior Director's Special Project:Childhood Hunger: Feed the FutureFeed the Future will focus on feeding children who are food insecure. The goal is to help feed 500,000 children across North Carolina. Clubs are encouraged to support local school backpack programs, or feeding programs in their communities that feed children and their families. To calculate the number of children being served:
One dollar donated equals 6 meals for children
1 pound of food donated equals 18 meals
One hour worked in a school feeding program, or food pantry equals 1,140 meals
Hunger is not just a poverty issue it's an education issue!
GFWC-NC District 7 Ladies Supporting our Veterans at the VA Medical Center Veteran's Day Program.
Pictured (L:R) GFWC-NC District President Cindy Hewett, VA Medical Center Volunteer Coordinator, and GFWC-SBI Members Chris Angotti and Eileen Brown.
GFWC-NC District 7 Ladies Celebrating Graduation
at the Boys & Girls Home of North Carolina
What a wonderful day GFWC-NC District 7 had at Union Elementary School in Sampson County! We visited with 125 happy, smiling first grade children. The children were treated to the story, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff read by Hellen Lane who is a member of the Sampson County Woman’s Club and the mother of Sharon Smith from the North Carolina Sorosis Woman's Club in New Hanover County. Helen is also a retired second grade teacher who once taught at that school. Linda Branch, the President of the Sampson County Woman's Club organized our visit to this school and planned the student involvement in the story reading. She brought along props and selected children did a role play as the story was being read for the second time. All children received a copy of the book and chocolate chip cookies. Debbie Sheehan is the GFWC-NC District 7 Literacy Chairman and this is the fifth school to receive books from District 7. GFWC-NC District 7 President Ann Landis welcomed the children and introduced the story reader.
Sampson County Woman’s Club is a unique club with only four members but they are really active. They have an annual meeting to plan their service projects and they meet monthly to do a project. This month, it was Union Elementary School and next month they will go to the pediatric unit at the local hospital to give out books. All four members recently attended the GFWC-NC District 7 Arts Festival in Brunswick County. They are a wonderful example of what can be accomplished by determined women. This project is an example of the support District 7 has shown for the GFWC-NC President's and Junior Director’s Special Project: Literacy--The Adventure of a Lifetime.
LINKS 4 LITERACYThank You District 7 Ladies for your support of our 3rd Annual "Links 4 Literacy" Golf Tournament. The weather was beautiful and it was another successful fundraising event supporting scholarships for NC educators!Friday, September 21, 2012Riverwood Golf Course, Clayton, NCHope you will be able to join us next year!
A Message From Our
President......
Hello District 7 Ladies-
What a fabulous honor to serve as your District 7 2012-2014 President. I am so excited and humbled to have this incredible opportunity. I truly believe that our District 7 Ladies are the best in NC (I know, I may be a little biased- but that’s OK!) We have some great things planned for this administration and I hope that you will plan to be a part of them. We have three goals set forth for our District and they are as follows:
- A passion that I hold near and dear to my heart is Veterans-supporting those who have so freely given of themselves so that each of us may enjoy the daily freedoms that sometimes we may take for granted. Our 2012-2014 District 7 Theme is: A Tribute to Veterans- Honoring our Past, Connected to our Future. And very appropriately- our District color for this administration is- RED! You will see lots of red and lots of ways for us to support veterans throughout the next 2 years.
- Our second goal as a District will of course be to support our State President/JD’s Special Project- Childhood Hunger: Feed the Future. And, our third goal for this administration will be
- To focus on Membership. Retaining and Recruiting! At each of our District meetings, I would like to highlight our clubs accomplishments and achievements, as well as recognizing members for their contributions too. I believe that it is important to give credit where credit is due and to say thank you as often as possible- to let those who do- know that each contribution is important and appreciated. We are all in this together- connected through our passions, our accomplishments- our service.
I look forward to traveling to each of your clubs and to meeting all of you. I would love to attend one of your club meetings as well as a fundraiser or event. I love seeing our Volunteers in Action!
In Federation Spirit,
Cindy
1304 Hewett Farms Road
Shallotte, NC 28470
ph: (910) 209-1847
chewett
