Faces of The Ethel: Ethel's Closet
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Hanne Denny: In Good. How are you doing? I saw that they had asked for things to do with the kids. I, puppies were fond of light up football.
Marie Gomba: Ethel's Closet was inspired by Ethel and we were just always. Very struck with her advocacy and benevolence and, as we came to learn more about her, as we started the group, we thought, why don't we start our own kind of Ethel's initiative?
Carol Yarrow: So we actually started out with collecting hygiene supplies for women and girls. We kept saying, oh, Ethel's this, and Ethel's that. And Marie says, how about Ethel's Closet more happiness rocks for their healing garden as part of their recovery program?
Elaine Fors-Mackellar: Every time we advertise an event, we, and promote the opportunity to donate to Ethel's Closet because it, women are coming together, it makes them feel good.
It's a common purpose. And I think it's been very successful.
Carol Yarrow: There may be an opportunity, I think, at Chrysalis House in a bit since we've built this relationship. Now,
Robin Rickard: Chrysalis House is a state of the art, one of a kind recovery treatment program for women with children, and women who are pregnant. We're one of the few in the state of Maryland where you can actually bring your kids with you when you're recovering and healing.
Carol Yarrow: Let your light shine by the CBA Ethel.
Thank you very much. Really,
Robin Rickard: very excited that the Chesapeake Bay area chapter of the Ethel's reached out to our philanthropy director and said, Hey. This is who we are, would really like to be involved. So we, scheduled for them to come and take a tour and all the donations that we received were just, oh my gosh, so overwhelming.
Elaine Fors-Mackellar: I think we're at a point in life where many or most of us are able to give back. We have the resources, we have the time, we have the energy. And I think harnessing this communal energy, towards giving has been really wonderful.
Hanne Denny: The idea of Ethel's Closet hit home with me because one of the things I said I needed to do in retirement was to find a good area of service.
So to find something else that I could contribute to and to know that Ethel's closet is going to other women was really important to me. One of the
Marie Gomba: greatest things we're doing is reducing social isolation by increasing that social connectedness with each other, empowering.
Carol Yarrow: The education that we're putting out there about Ethel herself and how engaged she was in the population of America and helping to educate and move women forward, move everybody forward, really.
I think Ethel would love it.