News for You from Ohariu

March & April 2019

In February we

collected over

$500 for the Heart

Foundation NZ

Annual Appeal

outside

Countdown

Crofton Downs.

Big thanks to

Katrina, Kathryn,

Kate, Kiran, Janine,

Mel and our little

helpers.

Get set for a brighter future

In March we applied for our first Altrusa International

Foundation Grant. The project that we are seeking to fund is

titled “Get set for a brighter future”. Our aim is to provide sets

of literacy resources that empower women and children to

develop new skills, extend their knowledge, and understand

the opportunities that are created through education. We will

purchase sets of instructional readers for Linden Primary

School, sets of novels for the Arohata Prison Library Book Club,

and sets of non-fiction books that represent women in

technology for local primary and intermediate school libraries,

providing a total of almost 250 brand-new books to our local

community. We will learn whether our grant application is

successful in mid-May.

Fundraiser for PADA

March Meeting

Anne Schumacher, CEO of Dementia Wellington, spoke at our March meeting

during Brain Awareness Week. Anne gave us some tips for reducing the risk of

dementia. Basically the saying goes, "Good for your heart, Good for your brain"

We look forward to volunteering at the Dementia Wellington Street Appeal at the

end of the month.

February Meeting

Our February meeting landed on Valentines Day, which seemed like a good

excuse to create more Love Letters.

These A4-sized decorated and laminated letters are sent to children in hospital,

then used to spell out their names on their wall. Love Letters are a simple yet

effective idea to brighten up the rooms of sick children.

New Member

We had a few visitors at our February meeting

and we’re delighted that Karen has joined

Altrusa! Karen discovered us over the New Year

break and got in touch via our Facebook page.

She is the 17th member of our club.

Club Board

In March we formally re-

elected our Club Board to

serve until May 2020.

Thank you Trudi, Janine,

Katrina, and Kiran.

Django Girls Wellington

Our amazing Merridy was the lead organiser of Django Girls Wellington, a free one-day programming

workshop for women that was held in late March.

Django Girls is an international non-profit organisation that empowers and helps women to organise

these free workshops by providing tools, resources and support. They are a volunteer run

organisation with hundreds of people contributing to bring more amazing women into the world of

technology. During each of their events, 30-60 women build their first web application using HTML,

CSS, Python and Django.

Altrusa Ohariu were proud to

support the Wellington workshop

by providing baking for morning tea,

thanks to Maree, Barbara, and

Janine. Kiran was also able to help

as a coach through the day, you

might be able to spot her in a

photo!

Appeal for Dementia Wellington

We are happy to support Dementia Wellington with

their annual Street Appeal.

We are collecting on Saturday 30th of March at the

Johnsonville Mall from 10am – 4pm.

At the time of writing, there were two spots

available on the roster for the day. Thank you to

those who have already volunteered.

You can sign-up via the Trello card.

Chocolates for KCA

We are running two working bees to make a bag of

thank you chocolates for each of the 80+ volunteers

who give their time to Kiwi Community Assistance.

The first session will be Sunday 7th of April at

Katrina’s House in Tawa. RSVP here.

The second session will be Saturday 13th of April at

Kathryn’s House in Khandallah. RSVP here.

A big thank you to Kiran and Janine for organising

supplies and equipment for this activity.

Coming Up

April Meeting

Our next meeting is Thursday the 11th of April at

7.30pm at the Johnsonville Bowling Club.

No speakers this month, instead we’ll be doing a

little bit of forward planning for activities through

the middle of the year.

As always, visitors are welcome

Please add any apologies to the Trello card.