Partnerships by WTB with groups locally and around the world are making a difference in the lives of many people.
Our 2008 International Dinner raised funds for Grandmothers to Grandmothers. This Canadian organization provides help to grandmothers in sub-Saharan African countries by giving food, housing grants, school fees and grief counseling for children orphaned by AIDS.
We also gave to a program for grandparents right in our own community, Relatives As Parents Program (RAPP)which gives critically-needed help to relatives caring for children outside the foster care system.
Here you’ll find information about Ibtida, the educational organization through which we helped build a school in Pakistan in 2003.
Chadwick Residence is a local hospitality ministry for women in transition. We often gather supplies for those who live there and have done some programs with the women living there.
Literacy Volunteers of Greater Syracuse , affiliated with the national group Proliteracy(also right here in Syracuse) is an organization we became involved with in our early days and some WTB members are tutors there. One of our first dinners helped raise funds in this area for LVGS’s important work.
InterFaith Works (formerly the InterReligious Council of Central New York) is an umbrella group for many of the religious organizations in the area.
Read about Women for Women, our 2006 fundraising project, an organization that helps women in war-torn areas rebuild their lives through microfinancing.
In September, 2007, WTB Council members attended a national event linked to The Pluralism Project at Harvard University where they met women from other organizations started after 9/11/01. Those groups with a website are:
- Spiritual and Religious Alliance for Hope(SARAH), Santa Margarita, California
- Women’s Interfaith Solutions for Dialogue and Outreach in Metro Detroit, (WISDOM)
- Sacred Circles Conferences at the Washington National Cathedral
- Interfaith Action’s Women’s Initiative, Sharon, Mass.
