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Volunteering with the Women’s Centre
Volunteering at the Women’s Centre offers a unique opportunity for you to make a meaningful impact in the lives of women on campus and beyond. By contributing your time and skills, you become an integral part of a dedicated team advocating for gender equity and providing essential support services to the campus community. The Women’s Centre is run in large part by volunteers, who working as a collective, have equal voices in the decisions and policies of the Centre. We aim to work, congregate and think in an equitable and non-oppressive manner.
Why volunteer with the Women’s Centre?
There are many reasons to volunteer at the Women's Centre:
- To be in a positive, collaborative, woman-friendly environment.
- To educate and raise campus community awareness of all forms of discrimination including both overt and systemic.
- To expand knowledge and perspectives of feminism and its interplay on campus, in our communities and within society as a whole.
- To promote women-centered events on campus and within the community.
- To enhance skills and network building with Laurentian University and Greater Sudbury organizations such as the Violence Intervention and Prevention Program, the Réseau ACCESS Network, the Sudbury Women’s Centre and Centre Victoria pour Femmes.
- To be empowered and to create your own positive changes in the lives of women on campus
Are only women allowed to volunteer?
The LUWC welcomes all individuals interested in volunteering. However, entry to the collective is restricted to women and femmes, as the center is run by, and for women.
Does someone have to identify themselves as a feminist to get involved with the Women’s Centre?
In short, no. The Centre acknowledges that many of its members identify with feminism differently or might not even identify with feminism at all. Although it is important to note that the Centre Collective itself is a feminist organization and therefore bases its philosophy on feminist models.