Women make banner for march

Volunteers from the Peninsula Women's Health Centre have made a banner as part of the world-wide Women's March Against Poverty and Violence.

The banner will make its way to Terrigal on August 31, along with other Central Coast efforts, as part of a State-wide Day of Action Against Sexual Violence and Child Abuse.

The state-wide event is held every year; but this year the event is being held in conjunction with the world march.

The Peninsula women will join the festivities sponsored by Gosford Council at Terrigal Beach (near the surf club), which start at 10am and finish at 2.30pm.

There will be guest speakers, a children's choir, singing, dancing, Aboriginal story-telling and sand-sculpting on the day.

The world march started in Quebec, Canada, in 1995 and the movement aims to stimulate a vast grassroots women's movement as a gesture of "affirmation by the women of the world".

The "pacifist, women-led effort" also aims to promote equality between the sexes, to force governments and decision-makers to improve women's lives, and to show women's on-going determination to change the world.

More than 2500 groups from 135 countries have joined the campaign according to organisers, the Federation des femmes du Quebec.

The world-wide effort culminates in a rally in front of the United Nations in New York on October 17.

Carl Spears, August 15