Ambulance Service takes delivery of Trauma Teddy’s
During December Trauma Teddy’s were presented to the Ambulance Service by Mrs Jean Fox D.P. accompanied by Mrs Ann Orr Action & Outreach Co-ordinator and Mrs Anne McKinley Projects Contact. Ambulance Service personnel with Mrs Jean Fox, Mrs Ann Orr and Mrs Anne McKinley (Photo curtsey of Martin McKeown and the Londonderry Sentinel)
TEMPLEMORE MOTHERS’ UNION
A celebration dinner was held in the Beech Hill Country Hotel on Tuesday 8th April 2008 to celebrate the founding of St Columb’s Cathedral Templemore Branch of the Mothers’ Union on Thursday 3 April 1913.
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Festival Service and Commissioning for Derry & Raphoe Diocese in
Christ Church Londonderry
Sunday 21st March 2010
Front: Curate of
Christ Church Revd Katie McAteer, Bishop James Mehaffey, All
Ireland President Mrs Ruth Mercer, Diocesan President Mrs Kay
Clark, Bishop Ken Good, Canon Robert Clarke.
Back: Diocesan Chaplain Revd Irene Lyttle, Rector of Christ
Church Revd Robert Millar and Mrs Mary Good.
Canon Robert Clarke, Mrs Mary Good, Mrs Ruth Mercer, Mrs Kay Clarke and Bishop Ken Good.
Mrs Kay Clarke and Mrs Ruth Mercer with Past presidents Mrs Thelma Mehaffey, Mrs Helen Livingstone and Mrs Jean Fox.
Dungiven and Bovevagh Mothers' Union
The 'Trauma Teddies' Project
Margaret Crawford All Ireland President is pictured with Thelma Mehaffey a former All Ireland President following the presentation of a Mothers' Union Long Service Certificate to Mrs. Mehaffey in recognition of 50 years membership of the organisation
Photo L to R of Alison King, Cherill Maguire from Derry and Raphoe with Lynda Trouton, Heather Loughry from Derry and Raphoe, Irene Dawson from Armagh at the YM conference in the Dromantine Centre in Newry
with Dugiven and Bovevagh Mothers' Union Choir
Mrs. Winifred Quigley is our oldest member (Indoor Member) at 95 years of age
20th
Feb 2010 in Clooney Methodist Hall
Mrs. Ruth Mercer the new All Ireland President was the guest speaker
at the Diocesan Quiet Day
Mary Good, Kay Clarke (Diocesan President) Ruth Mercer (All Ireland President) & Bishop Ken Good
Mary Good, Rev Katie McAteer, Kay Clarke, Ruth Mercer, Bishop Ken Good & Valerie Woodrow
Mrs. Kay Clarke (Diocesan President Elect) with Mrs. Jean Fox following the announcement of her election.
St. Columba's Cathedral on Sunday 29th March 2009 at the Festival Service
Mrs. Helen Livingston (Past Diocesan President) Mrs. Kay Clarke (Diocesan President Elect) Canon Raymond Fox Mrs. Jean Fox (Diocesan President) Rev Irene Lyttle (Diocesan Chaplain) & Mrs. Jennifer Given (Diocesan Treasurer).
"Ready Steady Cook"
"Ready, Steady, Cook" our three Chefs: Rev. Isaac Hanna, David Steele and David Wilson.
with President Mrs. Fox receiving their Long Service Certificates (all 30 years)
Stranorlar & Meenglass unveiled new Banner at Donegal Area Service
Overseas Evening
On 22nd April we held our Overseas Evening with the theme of "Out of Africa", speakers Margaret Crawford (All Ireland President) Ruth Mercer (Armagh Diocesan President) and Roberta Rodgers (Down & Dromore Diocesan President) shared their experiences of their visit to Uganda last year. Also present was Thandi Xundu from South Africa (General Trustee Member from Mary Sumner House).
My name is
Thembisile (Joyce) Matenjwa. I am 34 years old and am HIV
positive. I left school at 18 and learned craft and beadwork
from Carol, a women who helped me at that time. I have now been
part of the llala beadcraft team for 16 years and have grown and
learnt a lot.
My best friend, Siphiwe (also one of our beading group),
contracted AIDS and died, we were all very shocked and
distressed. All of us were encouraged to be tested and many of
us found out we were HIV positive. Knowing my status has
encouraged me to take better care of myself and eat a healthy
diet. I now try to encourage all the women I meet to be tested.
I am a single mother, with a young family whom I have raised and
educated alone. Money earned from handcrafts ensures a steady
income for women, especially those whose husbands are
unemployed. We are able to put our children through school, and
food on the table. We are empowered.
The knowledge of this disease helps in fighting it, especially
the knowledge that it is just like any other disease, and that
you are not alone. We can fight this together! I look forward to
seeing my children grow up, and to being a grandmother one day.
Thank you for your support"
Hand made on KwaZulu Natal, South Africa by women such as
Joyce who are HIV positive
75th Anniversary of Maghera & Upperlands when the ladies received certificates for service which totalled 217 years from Jean and from Rosemary Kempsell World Wide President.
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