VIGIL – Friday, December 4th, 2020

This is an annual memorial event marking the anniversary of the École Polytechnique de Montréal tragedy, honouring the women who lost their lives and commemorating the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.  

This event speaks to gender-based violence, the plight of murdered and missing indigenous women, and domestic violence. There is a ceremony to honour each of the 14 young women who lost their lives at L’Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal on December 6, 1989.

This year for the first time the University of Waterloo and CFUW K-W have partnered to create a special ceremony of remembrance. A pre-recorded memorial video will be broadcast on YouTube live on December 4, 2020 at 10:30 a.m. Please show your support by signing in and watching the online 30-minute ceremony.

To register, please go to http://nationaldayofremembrance.ticketfi.com .

Once you register, you will receive instructions on how to connect on December 4th.

If you missed it or are unable to join us at that time, please note that the recording will continue to be available to view on YouTube - click here

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Open Closet – March 2020

Since 2016, we have been honouring International Women's Day by sponsoring and organizing our “Open Closet” event.

This is a pop-up giveaway of clothes and accessories to community members in need. In 2020, nearly 40 volunteers -- mostly from our club, some from the wider community -- worked to set up, organize, supervise and clean up.

We thank the Mennonite Central Community shop "Thrift on Kent" for their assistance again this year.

At 4pm on set-up day there was a stream of cars at St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church in downtown Kitchener. Volunteers, racks for clothing display, boxes of hangers, many cups of coffee, and bags and bags of donated clothing poured in. The next morning, in spite of the cold there was a long lineup of shoppers waiting to get in; until closing time, the door to the street was rarely closed. More than 175 members of our community walked away with new clothes. It is the smiles on the faces of those people who found appropriate clothing for themselves, or warm clothes for their children, that remain with us.