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Women’s Rural Resource Centre introduces new logo!

Strathroy, Ontario, January 17, 2006  . . . The Women’s Rural Resource Centre has launched a new logo and “look” to better reflect its role in providing services to abused women.

The design conveys the Centre’s critical role in raising awareness of woman abuse and in providing shelter and counselling services to women struggling to create lives free from violence. 

“Our goal is to better communicate the services we offer. The new design is a critical element in helping members of our community understand our role and how we can help,” said Wendy Arnott, executive director.

The daisy is used by agencies supporting abused women to symbolize hope and promise (see www.daisyofhope.org for information about this provincial campaign).  In the Women’s Rural Resource Centre’s new logo, the two daisies represent a woman and a child indicating that the agency serves abused women and their children.  The mother daisy forms the “woman” symbol signifying the agency’s woman-centered service.  The shelter outline surrounds and “holds” the daisy reflecting the safety and grounding integral to WRRC services.

The Centre will introduce the design on all print and online communications, and showcased the new logo at the recent IQ Challenge, a major annual fundraising event.

The WRRC is a safe place for abused women 16 years of age or over, with or without their children, to seek shelter and/or counselling and other practical supports.  While the shelter is located in Strathroy, the agency serves women in West Middlesex and counselling services are available in Lucan, Ilderton, Parkhill, Glencoe, Newbury, Melbourne, Mount Brydges and Strathroy.  All services are free and confidential.