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Women – the guardians of Recipes for Community Harmony

Written by Wendy Alexander

Community Harmony Not all women experience feelings of harmony when the word recipe jumps out at them. For most the word is linked to cooking and often elicits a feeling of obligation associated with domestic duties. With the busy lives most women lead today domestic duties don’t rate high on the priority list as it once did.

Much as I love cooking I’m one of those women who don’t jump for joy at the word “recipe” mostly because I’ve never stuck to any recipe. I always prefer to add my little bit of this or that and it’s usually a bit more spice. So I really should’ve deleted the email that had the subject line beginning with “recipe” as I often do with most recipe emails. It was the words following that word “recipe” that caught my attention and those words were “for Community Harmony”. As I allowed the phrase “Recipe for Community Harmony” to roll around in my head I read on.

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Reaching Those Who Need Us Most

Toobrack Morning Tea

Several factors characterise remote counselling – most obviously distance. Operating solely from a branch office does not offer an accessible service to those who need it the most – the property owners and their families. Central Western Queensland, 43 percent of the state, is in a severe drought and the need to get in the car and travel to these families became obvious.

We now do this in conjunction with Anglicare and RFDS (Royal Australian Doctor Service) by means of “At the Kitchen Table”. This project involves finding a host family who invite a couple of neighbours over to participate in a day packed with information sharing, problem solving, social contact and art therapy. Decreasing the feeling of isolation is the overall goal.

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