Corporate Responsibility
Share the Dignity
Share the Dignity is a charity that was started in 2015 by Rochelle Courtney with a goal of ensuring that no woman should have to choose between buying food or buying sanitary items.
During the months of November and December a campaign called #itsinthebag is run where businesses and individuals can donate a preloved handbag filled with toiletries, everyday items and gifts.
COPE in partnership with National Storage has been assisting with the transport of donated stock around the country, helping to reach women in need in some of the most rural and remote communities that are a little harder for deliveries to reach.
COPE provided logistical assistance for more than 50 pallets going to 40 different locations.
Two pallets of donated items were sent out from Sydney in January, bound for Women’s and Children’s Safe Houses in areas such as Walgett, Brewarrina and Lightning Ridge.
About 140 fully stocked handbags were sent to Caylus, which is an organisation that supports youth programmes and other services engaging with youth in the central Australian region.
Most recently COPE assisted with moving 150 handbags to Warringarri Aboriginal Corporation in Kununurra and team members described the delight on the women’s faces as priceless, when they received the delivery.
These bags helped so many women, including people from the Women’s Domestic and Family Violence Crisis Centre, the Sober-up-shelter and One Family At A Time organisation. Gawooleng Yawoodeng, a women’s crisis centre in Kununurra, was also given bags to help women in need.
The COPE team was thrilled to receive a thank you note from every delivery made:
“To COPE Transport, who wear their heart on their trucks and make it possible, we are truly grateful that you all share our passion to help women in need”.
“COPE Transport we couldn’t thank you enough. There are lots of people that help us Share the Dignity but the team at COPE transport seriously rock with their kindness to help women in need across Australia. 140 bags were donated by the kind souls of Cessnock and surrounds, and are being delivered to the south coast of NSW to help reach more regional communities we aren’t normally able to deliver to. We couldn’t do this without the corporate support of businesses like COPE transport!!! Three cheers for team COPE!!”
“Thank you so much! I can’t even tell you how excited these two charities are to be receiving donations! It really means so much to them and they are so excited to share the donations with the women they are looking after.”
“We could NOT do this at all without the help from our good friends at COPE Transport who so kindly move our stock around to remote areas; we are so grateful.”
For further details on this charity see www.sharethedignity.com.au and for more details on the ‘itsinthebag’ campaign see www.sharethedignity.com.au/itsinthebag.html
