Women's Caring Program gears up to help women continue striving

“I am a striver,” says Monique Longmire.

Striving is how this Detroit working mom, 28, got to Oakland University, where she earned a human resources degree. It’s how she kept going, after the best job she could find upon graduating was an entry-level position as a bank teller.

Five years later, heading into the bank’s management training program and her 2-year-old daughter Layla speaking in complete sentences, she was striving and struggling in equal measure. Child care at an excellent Detroit center — a $600-a-month expense — was crushing her budget, and dampening even her spirits. (from Laura Berman’s column in the Detroit News, 7/17/12)

With the help of a scholarship provided by the Women’s Caring Program (WCP), child care for Monique’s daughter Layla is more affordable. This story is yet another example of why the WCP continues to assist single mothers striving for themselves and their children.

You are invited to join WCP in helping to further its efforts this year at the Twilight Gathering hosted by Truscott Rossman’s Kelly Rossman-McKinney on August 14, 2012 at her home in Lansing. 

To RSVP please visit: WomensCaringProgram.org