November 1st through November 25th the St. Thomas Libraries and IRT Department will be collecting donations of new women’s socks and new women’s flip flops for Women Advocates, Inc.
Donation boxes will be located at the entrances of O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library, Ireland Library, and Keffer Library as well at IRT’s offices in the basement of O’Shaughnessy Education Center (OEC).
Founded in 1974, Women’s Advocates was the first shelter in the nation for battered women and their children. Women’s Advocates offers shelter, meals, clothing, transportation, personal needs items, counseling, support, advocacy, referral, crisis phone and other basic services to women and their children daily. An average of 1,000 women and children stay at the shelter each year.
