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In between treating coughs and saving lives, Dubbo Hospital Emergency Department (ED) staff have been faithfully supporting Share the Dignity.
A large cardboard box in the ED tea room is currently filling with women’s sanitary products for the umpteenth time. Registered nurses Emilie Taylor and Michelle Reagan are getting ready to drop the products off at the Delroy Chemmart Pharmacy in West Dubbo.
Homeless women and the victims of domestic violence are the focus of Share the Dignity that reports of 85,000 women “who need your help”. A small act of kindness gives monthly dignity to Australia’s most vulnerable women, it says. Collection points in Dubbo and district can be found at www.sharethedignity.com.au. Share the Dignity collects donated pads and tampons in April, August and November. They are given to organisations and charities helping homeless women and women at risk of homelessness. Share the Dignity aims to “deliver items collected to local homeless charities, so the products you donate stay in your local area”.
Miss Taylor said Dubbo Hospital’s ED had been supporting Share the Dignity for several years. “We ask people around the hospital if they want to donate including staff, visitors and patients,” she said. “The ambos are on board and bring in stuff as well.” Miss Taylor and her colleague are new to the role of coordinating the ED’s effort to support women in need and keen to keep up the good work. “If anybody in the community wants to participate there is plenty of drop-off points in Dubbo,” she said. “Or they can come to the hospital and drop the sanitary products off. We are more than willing to gather them up and take them to the drop-off points.”
If anybody in the community wants to participate there is plenty of drop-off points in Dubbo. Or they can come to the hospital and drop the sanitary products off. We are more than willing to gather them up and take them to the drop-off points.
- Dubbo Hospital Emergency Department registered nurse Emilie Taylor