Charitable designer at BPW event

A fashion designer helping improve the lives of women in rural India will speak in Geelong next week as part of a business group’s White Ribbon Month activities.
Business and Professional Women (BPW) Geelong’s Style and Wool for Ribbons dinner with Danielle Chiel will also raise money for local domestic violence organisation Minerva Community Services.
Chiel’s Women and Progress is a personalised-production model venture using Australian merino wool to knit garments for rural Indian women, many of whom left school in their childhoods.
Chiel will join local stylist Kimba JB at the BPW dinner for Minerva Community Services, which supports local women after incidents of domestic violence.
“It’s nice to be able to put on a fun event and raise money for such a good cause,” BPW Geelong president Belinda Lyle said.
Guests at the two-course dinner would enjoy a cocktail on arrival before a fashion parade and a styling session, she said.
The evening runs from 5.30pm to 8.30pm Tuesday at Mercure Function Centre.
“Everyone’s welcome,” Lyle said.
Tickets cost $50 for BPW members or $60 for non-members and at trybooking.com/JLYY.
BPW Geelong is not-for-profit group founded in 1985 to empower local women “in all aspects of their life, including family, work, personal interests and wider communities”.