Clubwomen in Action
Sedgefield Woman’s Club was organized and federated in 1961 in the Sedgefield Community. Our volunteer efforts center on five community service programs as well as three annual fundraisers. The impact of SWC reaches local, state, national, and international levels of need.
The Environment Committee did a landscaping clean-up project at Millis Road Elementary School. Thank you to Donna Church, Sheryl Hamilton, Sherri Mitchell, and Jude Fiorello for your hard work!
Ringing the Bell for Christmas!
Our ladies had so much fun helping the Salvation Army at Friendly Shopping Center last year! We are doing it again on 12/4, 12/5, and 12/6 from noon to 4:00. The shifts will be 2-hours long and you can contact Jude Fiorella to sign up.
National Day of Service was a Big Success!
Over 880 clubs, 24 Districts, 29 State Federations, 5 National Clubs, 1 Region (Middle Atlantic), and 1 International Affiliate Club (Aruba) demonstrated their commitment to making a positive impact on the serious issue of Food Insecurity.
SWC was one of the clubs that participated by supporting the David Wilson Food Pantry at the Lutheran Church of Our Father.
Sedgefield Woman’s Club Partners with Sedgefield Elementary School!
Brain Break Box
We made balloon stress balls complete with faces and hair, seek and find tubes filled with rice and lots of trinkets, and breathing cards. Flo Gullickson had already made a fleece marble maze for each flip lid box. Each labeled “Brain Break Box” houses a stress ball, seek and find tube, breathing card, 3 x 3 puzzle cube, pop it fidgets toy, wacky track toy and fleece marble maze. Excellent work ladies!
A simple way to support is by linking your VIC card to the school. Their number is 2054. You can ask the cashier to link it next time you are at Harris Teeter or you can go to their website here.
Do you want to volunteer at the school? You can read a book, help tutor, and many other ways. There are so many ways to positively impact children at this school. You can register as a volunteer the with button below.
Health & Wellness committee delivered an early morning breakfast to the hardworking staff at Sedgefield Elementary School on Groometown Road.
Donna Church and her group brought breakfast casseroles, quiches, muffins, fresh fruit, poppy seed cake, sausage biscuits, and sausage balls. In addition, the group provided an assortment of Keurig pods along with fresh orange juice and bottled waters for the teachers and other staff to enjoy.
One of the committee members, Caren Standen, invited a massage therapist who brought her massage chair. The masseuse was able to provide massages to the teachers as their names were chosen in a drawing. The ones we spoke to said it was heaven to get this free massage to help with their very stressful jobs.
The students were out of school on this day for a teacher workday, so they had a lot to do in a short time, which made a free breakfast and free massage especially welcome. Judging by all the smiling faces they enjoyed this treat and were very grateful.
In addition to all the breakfast goodies and massages, Chair Donna Church, presented a check to the school principal, Mrs. Acevedo, for $250.00 for the teachers to buy books at their upcoming book fair. for there classrooms.
Teacher Appreciation on a Teacher Workday!
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October Guest Speaker - Leslie Isakoff
Leslie Isakoff is the President and COO of A Simple Gesture in Greensboro. They are a nonprofit hunger relief organization that collects food from neighbors, businesses and faith communities and distributes to food pantry partners. We are Passing the Purse in 2022 for this organization.
If you want to learn more then click on the button below to visit their website.
Our Program to Learn More About Our New Afghan Neighbors
We strive to learn about current events that affects our neighbors. We felt it was definitely an important cultural experience to learn more about the Afghanistan people that had to leave their home country and start over in Greensboro. We invited two or our sister clubs to join us and enjoyed having members of the Greensboro Woman’s Club and Southwest Woman’s Club attend. This program deeply touched us all and it is expected that many will decide to get to get involved and help our new neighbors make Greensboro their new home. We are proud to share the video below.
Food for Back Packs Program for Sedgefield Elementary
Sedgefield Woman’s Club’s Civic Engagement Committee sponsored a snack drive for the SES BackPack Program in February and had a tremendous response from its members! 33 SWC members participated in this project, and several non-member friends of SWC also generously contributed to this collection. A total of 2940 individual snacks were collected along with 190 toothbrushes and 102 tubes of toothpaste! Wow! That comes to 32 snacks per child currently in the program plus a new toothbrush and toothpaste for each (with extras to save for later). This collection will allow for each child in the SES BackPack Program to have an extra snack or two in their backpack each week for the remainder of the school year with plenty to spare. Thank you to everyone who contributed!
Helping Create a Home for A Young Adult in Links
Our Civic Engagement CSP invited a speaker from Guilford County Foster Care to talk about the Links program. Our members were so touched they wanted to help. Our club was able to get items to help set up new homes for Links participants.
November 15th is National Recycle Day! We collected 408 bottles and 438 plastic bags to send to be recycled. Every little bit helps.
Members Volunteer at Out of the Garden
Some of the members of SWC spent a Friday afternoon volunteering at “Out of the Garden.” They helped to sort the bread and had fun doing it together. This was their way to help with the Food Reclamation Initiative which helps to reclaim more than 200,000 pounds of food annually. The food comes from local grocery stores and businesses and is redistributed to local children and their families.
Shred and Share - Huge Success
The collaborative effort of our 5 CSP's - "Shred & Share" - was a decisive success...the weather was beautiful and turnout was incredible - 5000 lbs. was shredded = half of the truck was filled! There was an awesome collection of books and even more so of food (763 pounds) plus CASH (~ $250) for the David Wilson Food Bank of Lutheran Church of Our Father. Increased advertising certainly added to the success of the event, and we appreciate the efforts of many to spread the word using the beautifully created posters and street signs. It was amazing to see all of the various committee members working together for a common community event - and having fun all the while!