Goulburn View Club Social News

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Peggy Mills, Jenny Sullivan and Helen Wilkins. Supplied.

Our May Mother's Day Luncheon meeting was held at the Goulburn Soldier's Club, where we enjoyed a delicious meal with a great group of ladies present. Get Well wishes are sent to our members who have not been in the best of health lately including our Secretary Jenni Aubrey who is in hospital at present. We look forward to Jenni being well enough to attend our next meeting.

We welcomed two new members today, Nola and Heather and we look forward to seeing you again next month and hope you enjoyed our meeting today!

Our Guest Speaker today was Donna Mills who has recently been in Uganda on the Kisoro Project Mission Trip in April 2026. Her story was very interesting and informative.

For millennia the BaTwa people had happily lived in their forest homes coexisting with the animals that shared this sort of environment. Then came the painful situation that brought Rwanda into international awareness; we called this the Rwandan Genocide but for the Twa it brought great trouble. Forced out of their tribal areas so that gorillabased tourism could flourish, they quickly came into a decline. Forced into begging, prostitution and slavery they eke out an existence as fringe dwellers around the towns in that region.

A local church group has been trying to prevent their total demise and requested help as the task was just too great for them to do on their own. Their Bishop while showing the area during a visit requested that we may be willing to help in this task.

The Kisoro Project began as a result of that request. The plight of the community of Twa people in the village of Mikingo within the town of Kisoro in South Western Uganda was obvious. Families whose Children are not accepted in school and so are forced to live in huts made of plastic bags and scrap.

They live without hope or awareness of their own value. Prostitution of young girls, drug addictions and other signs of substance abuse abound. Yet when they sing of the loss of their forest homes where the hunted gazelle and other small mammals their music is poignantly charming. Our involvement hopes to bring education, good medical help especially around mothers and their infants and some form of acceptable income generation programmes.

Lucky Door prizes were won by Helen Scott, Marianne Lewis, Margaret Thompson, Donna Mills. The Lucky Number draw this month was won by Jenny Sullivan and raffles were won by Pam Denning, Elaine McMartin, Pat White, Joycelyn Cooper and KimTozer. Birthdays were celebrated by Jenni Aubrey, Jane Booth, Marilyn Mooney and Carol Olsen and we hope you all had a wonderful day.

Our next social day will be Thursday 21st May 2026 where we are going to K & G'Z , 12 for 12.30pm. Names to be given to Margaret Gooch by 7pm Monday 18th May 2026. If you put your name down to attend and are unable to do so, please let Margaret know by this date as well.

Our next meeting will be 4th June 2026, and if you wish to join us, please contact Margaret Gooch (02) 4822 1859 or 0409 904 917 before 7p.m on Monday 1st June 2026. You can also text or email your acceptance to mgooch65@gmail.com.

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