The Pink Ladies

Women Together is a group of women of Piedmont neighborhood that started meeting around violent youth death at the beginning of 2004. The idea was to know and support each other.
We meet two times a month on Saturday morning, drink coffee and talk. Was in this talking that we decided to impact the neighborhood with a symbolic action of clean the Street:"100 women sweep". Once a year, on Earth Day, we make a clean up. Our families and other families in the neighborhood go out with brooms and bags and work together. We use a pink t-shirt with a logo.
Four times a year we have pot lucks, that are a large women gathering.
We also organize demonstrations for peace and "stop the violence", and made trainings for our members to encourage leadership, and make one to one meeting to strength relationships.
After the murder of a young woman at Pleasant St, a neighbor that lived close to her house was very impressed and came to our coffee meeting with a sketch of a park that she dreamed to be placed at the corner of Pleasant St and Winslow St. Was precisely at this vacant lot that we gather each year to start our Clean Up.
Many neighbors went to the school that was placed in this lot until a fire destroyed it.
What was a Susan Lozoraitis dream became a reality after two years of hard work in partnership with the city. We bough the lot, work in the park design with Conway School, and today the park is under construction. We still need to raise some money to finish it. One of our next steps is sell a foot of fence because the city needs the park fenced and we chose a beautiful rough iron fence that cost 50 dollars a foot.
We was proposed for the Vision Award that T&G gives each year and we win!! The ceremony is on February 5 at Mechanic Hall, 4 p.m. We received the Vision Award for Public Service 2007 because our contribution with the community making OUR PEACE NEIGHBORHOOD PARK possible. After the ceremony we are going to celebrate with a pot luck at the Wesley Methodist Church, 6 p.m.