| Home | |
| Our Members | |
| WIT & the Community | |
| Young Women In Training | |
| Contact Us | |
THE WOMEN OF WIT adopted a needy family for the Child & Family Resources Inc. Holiday Giving program. They provided gifts for a grandmother, mother and four children. The group has also donated money to the Back to School Fair in July to buy school supplies and backpacks for 300 needy children.
MELONY TERRY is involved with Look Good Feel Better, an organization ran through the American Cancer Society. Skin care and make up products supplied by the Cosmetic and Fragrance Foundation are donated to the American Cancer Society, and then are assembled into kits for patients going through chemotherapy. These kits help women look and feel better at an extremely difficult time in their lives, and Melony is very proud to be a part of such a wonderful organization.
Melony is also involved with Child and Family Resources. She works with young moms who are working on their G.E.D's and preparing to go to trade schools or college.
CASEY BERNAL l is a member of the board of directors for Big Brother Big Sisters of Tucson and chairs the organization’s human resources committee. Big Brothers Big Sisters is the nation’s preeminent youth-service organization providing high quality mentoring through nurturing relationships between adults and children. Casey is also a member of PEO (Philanthropic Educational Organization). The PEO Sisterhood is passionate about its mission: promoting educational opportunities for women.
BRENDA GRIFFIN has volunteered for the Fiesta de los Vaqueros since 1997. She has assisted Joan Liess, Media Representative, in the capacity of operating the Press Room. She has been a volunteer dog walker for the Humane Society of Southern Arizona, and was the Coordinator of Adopt a Family for various law firms during the holiday season. In 2005, Brenda participated in a Women's Build Project for Habitat for Humanity Tucson in the Balboa Heights Neighborhood, and in the Jingle Bells Walk/Run for the Arthritis Foundation. In 2006 she became a mentor for the Teen Mothers’ Program at Child & Family Resources as well as volunteering with the Ben’s Bells Project.