SENATE MEMORIAL 4

48th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2008

INTRODUCED BY

Cisco McSorley

A MEMORIAL

DECLARING FEBRUARY 9, 2008 AS "YWCA DAY" AT THE NEW MEXICO LEGISLATURE.

     WHEREAS, the YWCA serves over twenty-five million women and their families throughout the nation; and

     WHEREAS, the YWCA is one of the largest providers of child care, with over two hundred fifty thousand children cared for; and

     WHEREAS, the YWCA helped over one million women last year in the areas of health care, domestic violence and economic empowerment; and

     WHEREAS, the YWCA-Middle Rio Grande was founded on February 9, 1906 in New Mexico and has been providing services to strengthen women and families for ninety-eight years in the community and throughout the state of New Mexico; and

      WHEREAS, the YWCA-Middle Rio Grande helped over one hundred thousand women and their families last year in the areas of women's health care, professional clothing for women, early childhood education, nutritious meals for children in home daycare, technology education for young women and other youth development; and

     WHEREAS, the YWCA-Middle Rio Grande will continue in its mission to empower women and help create options that will enable them to live with dignity, strength and economic independence;

     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that in recognition of the importance of the work that the YWCA-Middle Rio Grande does in the state of New Mexico, that February 9, 2008 be proclaimed "YWCA Day"; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that New Mexicans be encouraged to show their support for the YWCA-Middle Rio Grande on this day; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be transmitted to the governor and to the board of directors of the YWCA-Middle Rio Grande.

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