Zonta Club of New Providence to Host ?Tapas N Jazz? Fundraiser

Thu, Jan 19th 2017, 05:17 PM

The Zonta Club of New Providence is looking to raise much-needed funds to assist in the construction of the country’s first Transition Home at the Ranfurly Home for children, with a ‘Tapas N Jazz’ event set to entertain and contribute to the cause at hand.

On February 4th, 2017 the Sapodilla restaurant will be transformed into a jazz garden as premiere jazz artists in the country take to the stage to help generate much needed funds to help get the non-profit children’s home further to their target of building transition homes. Proceeds will also go towards Zonta Club of New Providence’s annual program that equips unemployed women with work skills to help them get back into the working world.

“This fundraiser will be a lovely evening of fun, food and live entertainment that will benefit our Workforce Readiness Program and the Ranfurly's Transition Home. One of the projects envisioned by this Club is that of a transition or halfway home for women and young girls. While this is still a vision, in the interim, we have an opportunity to partner with the Ranfurly as they work to construct such a home for young adults,” said ZCNP President Claudine Farquharson. “The Transition Home will be used to house young ladies in separate quarters from young men as they prepare to successfully transition and integrate into the wider society. “This project is in keeping with our mandate to empower and advance the status of women and so we are delighted to be a part of such a worthy venture.”

Specifically, Transition homes are needed for children who would have lived in the Ranfurly Home but have to move out of the Home as they come of age.

President of the Ranfurly Home Alexandra Maillis-Lynch said the home was important because many children who pass through the doors of the Ranfurly Home do not have the back-up of family and security to help them better ease into adulthood.

“At 18 they are required to leave home care,” Maillis-Lynch added. “If they are one of the children who don’t have a mentor that can financially support them, then they’re on their own. It hasn’t been good in the past and kids have fallen away to bad influences.

This home would give them that stopgap for two years where they would abide by certain rules that would go with the home and they will learn what it is to be an adult in the right situations that allows them to feel that they’re a part of a family.”

Artwork from the children living at the Ranfurly Home will also be on sale at the ‘Tapas N Jazz’ event, which starts at 7 pm. Tickets are now available at the Physiocare location on Mackey Street.

ABOUT: Zonta Club is the nation’s leading organization dedicated to improving the legal, political, economic, educational, health and professional status of women at the global and local level through service and advocacy. Zonta was founded in 1919 and is an International global organization of executives and professionals working together to advance the status of women worldwide through service and advocacy. Zontians all over the world volunteer their time, talents and support to local and international service projects, as well as scholarship programs aimed at fulfilling Zonta's mission and objectives.

(L-R) President of the Ranfurly Home Alexandra Maillis-Lynch, President of the Zonta Club of New Providence Claudine Farquharson and Ranfurly Home Administrator Alexander Roberts announce the upcoming Jazz N Tapas event and the need for sponsorships to reach the goal of building Transition Homes.


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