danderson
11-25-2007, 01:52 PM
The 2nd Annual Nate Pike Band Calgary Womens Emergency Shelter Benefit Concert
Who: 6 local bands, teaming up to raise awareness and money for a very worthy cause
Where: Dickens Pub
When: Sunday November 25, 5pm - 2am
Tickets are only $7 at the door, ALL money is donated to the CWES. There will also be T-shirts for sale.
Last year this event raised over $1200 for the CWES, this years goal is $1500. Please come out and help support a wonderful (and very important) cause.
Come on out while the boys watch football!!!
Here are some statistics for you taken from a recent Stats Canada report...
7% of women in canada have been the victims of spousal abusein the last 5 years. That translates into 653,000 women who have suffered abuse at the hands of a spouse over the last 5 years.
According to that same study, Alberta leads the rest of the country with 10% of the female population having been abused in the past or the present.
37% of female patients who are treated in the ER for violent injury have been injured by an intimate partner
Children in close to half a million households in Canada have seen or heard one parent being assaulted by the other
Who: 6 local bands, teaming up to raise awareness and money for a very worthy cause
Where: Dickens Pub
When: Sunday November 25, 5pm - 2am
Tickets are only $7 at the door, ALL money is donated to the CWES. There will also be T-shirts for sale.
Last year this event raised over $1200 for the CWES, this years goal is $1500. Please come out and help support a wonderful (and very important) cause.
Come on out while the boys watch football!!!
Here are some statistics for you taken from a recent Stats Canada report...
7% of women in canada have been the victims of spousal abusein the last 5 years. That translates into 653,000 women who have suffered abuse at the hands of a spouse over the last 5 years.
According to that same study, Alberta leads the rest of the country with 10% of the female population having been abused in the past or the present.
37% of female patients who are treated in the ER for violent injury have been injured by an intimate partner
Children in close to half a million households in Canada have seen or heard one parent being assaulted by the other