• Community service

• Regular social interaction

• Caring about others

• Personal development through learning new skills

• Develop organisational skills for conferences, exhibitions, festivals, public meetings and workshops

• Learn handcraft, home skills, singing and drama

• Develop and share your new ideas for branch activities and community fund raising!

CWA projects in the local community include

• 1989: $68,000.00 for the installation of two way radios in domiciliary nurse's vehicles statewide and the purchase of 65 pagers

• 1991: $45,000.00 to supply 10 patient controlled analgesia systems, a surgeons stool and a defibrillator for the new Cardiac Unit at the Royal Hobart Hospital

• 1998: $12,500 to purchase a heart monitor for the Midlands Multi Purpose Health Centre

• Promotion within the community of increased awareness of lymphoedema and providing financial support for Tasmanian sufferers from 2000 to 2003

• Ongoing donations and fundraising for Royal Hobart Hospital paediatric services and cancer research

• Clothes and baby care items for families in need

• Aids and prostheses for cancer patients, distributed through the Cancer Council

• Annual Nursing Bursary and Rural Scholarship for first year university students

On a state level

• Government departments and agencies seek input from CWA on consumer, health and other issues and request feedback on discussion papers

• Community organisations seek our assistance and financial support

On a national level CWA is a member of CWA of Australia

• The Federal government regularly seeks submissions on a wide range of consumer and rural/regional concerns - including the shortage of General Practitioners, rural education, unemployment and welfare issues, drought relief, national highway safety priorities, general consumer protection issues and

• Input on Federal government policy formation is sought through the National Association.

On an international level CWA is a member of the Associated Country Women of the World

• Who support a range of agricultural, health and social programmes in developing countries

• Works closely with the United Nations

• Water For All fund supports the production of clean water through provision of water tanks, by boring wells and providing hand pumps

• Women Feed the World fund supports subsistence food production and training in appropriate agricultural technologies and credit savings schemes

• CWA in Tasmania hosted a very successful 24th ACWW Triennial World Conference in Hobart in March 2004

• Resolutions from this Conference included the prioritisation of food security in developing countries, lobbying for the provision of effective drugs world wide for HIV/AIDS sufferers and for the enactment of legislation in member nations to combat the worldwide trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and children

• CWA has supported a foster child through Plan Australia for over twenty-five years.

Come along to a meeting- or organise some friends and start a new branch

ONLINE BRANCH: if forming an online branch interests you, please contact the State Office on (03) 6231 3706.