On a week that opened with International Women’s Day and closes on Mother’s Day its been a time to focus on the amazing role women have played in supporting us, especially in this the hardest of years. Many of the BTCDP staff and volunteers helped in the assembly of the Senior Play Packs and today we got some of them to deliver packs to the special women in their lives. Grannies, Mammies and Aunties across the community answered the knock to find a familiar face on the doorstep with a playful delivery.
Grainne and Sinead, both staff of Ballyphehane Togher CDP got to deliver Senior Play packs to their mums Brenda and Joan at home.
Kay and Konrad, both volunteers with BTCDP during Covid were on different volunteering duty today : Kay delivering to her auntie Margaret and Konrad to his mum Carmel.
June, who trained in BTCDP and now works with Cork Kerry Community HealthCare who supported the project to purchase additional packs, got to deliver one to Lillian, her mum.
Bernie is a mum and a granny in her own life but she’s also the mother hen in An Cliabhán Community Creche so Siobhán made sure she had a fun box to take home.
We took a time too to celebrate all the women, in all the diversity of that definition, who have supported and nurtured us this past year across many frontlines: healthcare and homecare, childcare and community work, public health and public services, education and home-schooling, in shops and in science labs – everywhere in fact where you find women. Thanks on this special week to all the women who are parents, partners and peers – we couldn’t have done it without you!
Playful Paradigm which produced the Senior Activity Packs is a partnership between Cork City Council, Cork Healthy Cities, Cork Sports Partnership , City PPN, Cork Learning Cities, Foróige, the HSE and Cork Local Sports Partnership and community organisations and supported by Age Friendly Cork City & County. Ballyphehane Togher CDP, supported by Cork Kerry Community HealthCare, purchased additional packs to enable as wide a distribution as possible in an area with a significant older population.
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