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The Committee for Concerned Women (CCW)
Ouaitoukoubouli-Kalinago Rediscovery (OKR)
Salybia Primary School and School Faculty
Bogie Tours
Carib Council and Parliamentary Representative
"To assist the community with humanitarian, educational, and health services."
The Committee for Concerned Women (CCW)
Primary members are Patsy Thomas, President, Josian Thomas, Treasurer, Connie Williams, Secretary, Stephanie Dupigny, Assistant Secretary/Treasurer, Jennette Lucien, Marilyn Bruney, Joyce Phillip, members, Annie Edwards, Peace Corps Volunteer. The group became a registered NGO on March 13, 2006 but has been in operation for over ten years. CCW works with the indigenous Kalinago community to offer humanitarian and other service in response to pressing health, education, and social needs in the Territory.
CCW aims
: To help families identify and seek solutions to problems
: To help educate the community
: To raise awareness among families about healthy living
: To empower members through education and training
: To collaborate closely with the Carib Council, Carib Affairs, other health teams and
groups with similar aims and interests
CCW Activities in Carib Territory (on-going)
: Skills training including flower arrangement, craft making, cricket bat carving, tee-shirt
printing
: Health Education, HIV/AIDS, drug and alcohol prevention seminars across the Territory.
A recent project was Sports Day with over 100 people in attendance. Pamphlets on safe
sex and HIV/AIDS were distributed;increasing the availability of condoms within the
Territory
: Support system for the Special Olympics team
: Home care for the elderly
: Outreach assistance to families, for example stock projects or teaching rabbit rearing to
families with low weight-gain children
: Liaison to families to improve education and provide educational outreach such as after-
school tutoring in reading and math
: CCW built and operates through its volunteers the Cray Fish River Preschool, currently
fully enrolled. CCW recently hosted a panel discussion on 'Issues Affecting the Family'
that identified a need for the next community-wide project that will be parenting
classes
 CCW Preschool Special Needs School
Special Needs School
The Committee for Concerned Women recognizes a need in the Carib Territory. Children with disabilities are not accommodated for in the schools of Dominica especially in the Carib Territory where you can find the largest amount of disabilities out of the entire island. As a result there are a large amount of Special Needs children who are unable to attend or are rejected from regular schooling. Because of this they are growing up lacking the basic education and life skills which they are fully capable of learning.
The Committee's concern is what will happen to these children when they grow up? They risk leading an unfulfilling life with an unfair lack of opportunity and due to this some may also turn to crime, drugs or other risk behaviors, which can affect the entire community at large. At the moment these children lack equal opportunity. These children deserve the opportunity for an education which the Committee of Concerned Women would like to provide.
Many of the children in the Community are out of school simply because they are hearing or speaking impaired. These children are fully capable of learning. Giving these children an education has been the Committee for Concerned Women's dream for quite awhile. CCW is seeking funding to complete the school which is ninety percent complete. The school is in need of teaching materials, books, pencils/pens, etc. Additionally, they are in need of securing funding to transport the students to school. The current bus system in the Community cannot accommodate children in wheelchairs.
Individuals interested in donating specifically to CCW can make note on their donation and Longé will ensure your donations reach CCW directly.
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