Organisations such as Zonta do excellent work by providing emergency shelter and guidance for women and children who have been caught up in distressing and sometimes violent situations.
Frequently, women arrive at refuges with only the clothes they are wearing and without financial means to purchase urgently needed items.
In consultation with Zonta, the Rotary Club of Booragoon in 2007 launched an innovative program that provides support parcels of clothing, toiletries and hygienic items they are most likely to need.
The program has been dubbed “Just a Little Help Bag”. Rotary club members assemble the Help Bags with goods that have been purchased with Rotary charity funds or via donations of funds or goods from manufacturers and supporters.