Journeys for Women Initiative

The Maine Support Network is home to the Journeys for Women Initiative. You can also bookmark journeysforwomen.org, which points to this site.

The Journey is just the beginning....
Our mission is to provide a safe sabbatical/trip that will provide learning, respite and/or revitalization for a woman. Direction, advocacy and support are provided for a qualifying woman traveler to envision, plan, and carry out a trip. Each Journey is a unique experience for the woman, her family, and the Journeys For Women Initiative. Upon completion of the Journey, each woman will share her experience with others.

Three years ago one of our members, Corda Ladd Kinzie, from Readfield, took a journey. She writes that "for many years I dreamed about taking a cross country journey. When I first conceived the trip I was a working mother and wife raising three boys; however, my parenting job was not finished and I needed to stay and be a mom. It took me eight years before I saved enough money and the time was right to realize my dream. I planned, saved and finally took a year off from work. Driving out of the driveway on my own in 2001 was the hardest thing I had ever done. Without the support of my family and friends I would never have taken this life changing journey." Corda spent a year traveling the country in her VW Eurovan Camper nicknamed "Winnie."

As a result of Corda’s journey, the Journeys for Women Initiative was started. She has donated the proceeds from "Winnie" to the Maine Support Network, and a volunteer board of friends and allies has been formed to raise money and oversee operations in order to make Journeys for Women a reality for other Maine women in need of such an adventure, but for whom circumstances and finances make it impossible. The board has designed an application process and hopes that at least one woman will have the opportunity to "journey." The Maine Support Network is a 501C3 organization and all contributions are tax deductible.