Mission: Seeking Unity and Care for the Community through Education.
Purpose:
- Established to Ensure the Continuance of the Oak Hill Heritage House and Multi-Cultural Library
- The Duration is to be in Existence for Future Generations to Utilize and Continue to
- Benefit from Valuable Historical Works & Resources: Catalogue Raisonnes, Genealogy, Documentations, and Preserved Records.
Programs
- Grant Writing Critiques
- Small Business Research Assistance
- Genealogy Research Assistance
- Historical and Cultural Research Library
- Heritage House Group & Individual Tours Arranged
- Newsletter mailing list /Announcements on web site
- Workshops & Seminars (Schedule TBA)
- Book Club- (Members meet quarterly – TBA)
- Summer Day Camp –3 Weeks (TBD) for Grades 1- 8
Background
We relocated to Granville County in 1981 My son enter Hix School: I obtained a P-T Professor position in College transfers-Psychology 101 & Counselor/Recruiting position with Vance-Granville Community College; my h usband opened Oak Hill Mini-Mart in 1982 at 7686 Goshen Road in Oak Hill. The store was attached to the front of my mother's Antebellum (Greek Revival Home) the three of us toyed with idea of developing this into a recreation center, etc. But due to popular demand it became a game room and lounge. By 1992, we lost interest in this entrepreneurial. Our son was in management; I was in Vance County Schools; and my husband started a new business. Back to the drawing board – I organized Women Involved in Community Action, 1995 and became a 501 C, 2002. In 2002 we leased the lounge under new management. It was destroyed by a fire in 2003. Unfortunately our Greek Revival Home [of Jeff & Etta Thorp Satterwhite, Jeff, a sone of Harry Satterwhite, Sr of the 1800's Satterwhite Shop] serving as WIICA's home base was also destroyed.
WIICA (Women Involved In Community Action)
Composed of professional women representatives from community agencies, and other who have a special interest in the enhancement of health, education, spiritual, cultural and social welfare, focusing on but not limited to minority and disadvantaged families, ikncluding infants, children, youths, adults and seniors. WIICA serves as an advocacy, referral and advisory council for implementation of grant programs; volunteer training, learning and caring programs designed to involve youths in tutorial education and leadership of human potential seminars and workshops; to provide early interventions to enhance potential and increase literacy levels. Program activites are Outcome driven, Community-Based, Culturally Competent, Family Centered and Prevention Oriented, focusing on but limited to the rural communities. WIICA's largest on-going project is the Oak Hill Heritage House Museum & Research Library where we are home based.
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