Sistercare Workers Get Lesson in Safety
November 09, 2009 12:44 PM
Columbia, SC (WLTX) - The Lexington County Sheriff's Department teamed up with a company that makes pepper spray to host a safety training class for a special group of women.
Women with Sistercare Incorporated got a lesson in safety with Sabre, a company that makes pepper spray.
Sistercare Incorporated provides services for battered women and their children in the Midlands.
Employees learned how to defend themselves and escape in the event that they are attacked and how to deploy a chemical pepper aerosol spray in the event that they are assaulted.
"Your safety is most important, and if you have to be rude, you have to be rude," Sabre Instructor Donna Jernigan said.
Jernigan is more than a Sabre Safety Instructor though.
"I was a crime victim in 2000, and the same perpetrator reappeared this past February," Donna said.
That's when she says she started taking self-defense classes but now she's teaching them.
"I realized that I am empowered, and I don't' have to take it and I want other women to know, especially females they do not have to be a victim either," she said.
"Sistercare's philosophy is empowering women to live safe and when the Lexington County Sheriff's Department offered us the opportunity to be safe through this training, we felt that it was important," Sistercare Coordinator Deb Haney said.
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