Take It To Your Town
One woman with a pamphlet reaches the next forty. That is how this travels.
One woman with a pamphlet reaches the next forty. That is how this travels.
Leave it at the library, the community centre, the hairdresser, the hall. Paper lets a woman take her time with it, and take it home, and think about it over a week.
Five minutes of words, written to be read aloud at a meeting. A branch of the Country Women’s Association, a University of the Third Age morning, a book club, a bowls club.
Councils already know which of their women are at risk and rarely have eight practical answers to hand. Here is the letter.
So we know which towns are carrying it.
It comes out ready to leave somewhere.
Getting Money Into The Hands Of Women
Eight social enterprises for women, six of them for women over fifty.
madamemonet.com.au
It is free to look, and it stays free to belong.
Written to be read aloud.
I want to tell you about something for women our age.
Madame Monet is eight small businesses, six of them for women over fifty. A woman who bakes can be paid for her baking. A woman who has raised a family can steady another family. A woman with a spare room can share it, and a woman who needs one can find it. A woman who wants to go back to work has somewhere that wants her experience rather than her age.
Nan Made, Aunt Tea and Matri Pair are ten dollars a month. Esmeralda and LOIS are free to a woman entirely. Her customers pay her and she keeps it.
I am telling you because somebody in this room is brilliant and has been told once too often that she is past it. She is not. Her experience is the most valuable thing she owns, and this is a way to be paid for it.
The address is madamemonet.com.au. Come and have a look with me afterwards.
Dear Councillor,
I am writing about the women in our area who are over fifty-five, and particularly the ones living alone.
You will already know the figures better than I do. What I have found is eight small businesses under one name, Madame Monet, six of them built so a woman over fifty can turn what she already knows how to do into income, housing, work or company. Baking. Mentoring. Steadying a household. Sharing a home. Going back to work. Making with her hands.
Three of them are ten dollars a month to the woman herself. Two of them cost her nothing at all. It costs the council nothing.
I would like to bring it to the women here — a talk at the community centre, or pamphlets at the library. I would be glad of your help getting in front of the right people.
The address is madamemonet.com.au.
Yours sincerely,
Your town, and what you are planning. We will know where this is being carried.
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