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Thank you to our
community

supporters & HTSD
staff who assisted in
making our Summer

2023 Pop-Up School
House events a huge
success! We

appreciate your
continued support!

Hamilton Township
School District

90 Park Avenue
Hamilton, NJ 08690
(609) 631-4100 @WeAreHTSD

www.htsdnj.org

Zonta Community Grant Awarded to

Exhale Women's Fellowship

cal, and through mentorship. Zonta Club of Trenton/ the voice to inform and to vador who were survivors
Funds from the grant will be Mercer (ZCTM), a 92-year- fight climate change, as the of human trafficking. Many
used to provide gift cards old non-profit organiza- negative affects more greatly victims of human trafficking
for survivors to purchase tion, works to build a better impact women through loss are there because of poverty.
food and clothing. To find world for women and girls of employment, housing, and The Free the Girls organiza-
out more about Exhale, visit through service and advo- food insecurity. Find how tion trains these women to
Domestic violence is a exhaletoday.org. cacy. Zonta is a Lenape Zonta International supports be entrepreneurs and then
scourge on our society and a The $5,000 grant will be word meaning “honest.” In women and children around provides them bras at no cost
huge impairment to women’s presented at the Zonta Club 1919 women in Buffalo, New the globe at Zonta.org. to sell to their communities.
health, safety, and their abil- Gift Card Bingo Night York, established Zonta so In service to Exhale All monies raised are their
ity to achieve their poten- on September 28, 2023 that they could serve their Women’s Fellowship, Zonta income, allowing them to
tial. Zonta Club of Trenton/ (6 – 9 pm), to be held at communities as men did in is requesting that attendees be independent and support
Mercer is working to build a the West Trenton Ballroom Rotary and Kiwanis; women bring women’s toiletries themselves and their families.
better world for women and (40 W. Upper Ferry Road), were excluded from those and feminine products FTG is active in Africa and
children and to advocate for Ewing, NJ. Tickets are $35 organizations at that time. to the Bingo Night to South America. All bras must
prevention of domestic vio- if purchased before the Zonta has since grown into help support these women. be new or gently used.
lence. For 2023, members of 28th, or $40 at the door. an international organization These will be supplied to For more information
Zonta Club of Trenton/Mer- Tickets can be purchased of over 27,000 members in the women as needed when about Zonta or Gift Card
cer have awarded the Zonta from members, or online at 62 countries. Zonta Inter- they come to Exhale. Bingo Night, email us at
Club Community Grant to ZontaTrenton.org. The night national supports initiatives Another service & advo- zontatrentonmercer@gmail.
Exhale Women’s Fellowship, will include auctioning 10 that combat violence against cacy project for the Sept. com or visit our website at
a non-profit that provides gift baskets and a 50/50 raffle; women, human trafficking, 28 Bingo Night is a collec- ZontaTrenton.org.
support to women who have light food, snacks and non- and child marriage. They also tion of new and gently used
suffered from domestic vio- alcoholic drinks are included have joined the ERA Coali- bras for the Free the Girls
lence and are seeking safety, in the ticket price. Each tick- tion to push for enactment (FTG) campaign. During
healing, independence, and a eted attendee will receive of the Equal Rights Amend- our last campaign for Free
new future. Exhale provides a pack of 6 square/10 bingo ment guaranteeing equal The Girls, ZCTM collected
support in so many ways: games. Additional packets rights for women in the USA. 1,100 bras that were then
financial, emotional, physi- are available for purchase. Zonta Clubs have also joined shipped to women in El Sal- www.ZontaTrenton.org

"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."
—Madeleine Albright

Mercer County Woman 2 September/October 2023