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Best Practice Awards 2011: SI Colombo – Helping the Internally Displaced due to War

To celebrate the Best Practice winners 2010 - 2011, we will be running a special series of Best Practice blogs over the coming days. These articles are written by the clubs themselves, and in many cases will appear in English and the language of the club. We hope you enjoy

Best Practice Awards 2011: Dutch Union and the Soroptimist Film Festival For Children

To celebrate the Best Practice winners 2010 - 2011, we will be running a special series of Best Practice blogs over the coming days. These articles are written by the clubs themselves, and in many cases will appear in English and the language of the club. We hope you enjoy

SI Film: "Educate to Lead – A Fairy Tale Story"

Soroptimist International is delighted to launch 'Educate to Lead - A Fairy Tale Story'. Launched at the Soroptimist International of Great Britain and Ireland conference in Brighton last week, the film is designed to raise awareness of the SI global focus, education and leadership, and provide the perfect tool to

Icelandic Soroptimist Week

For the twelfth time, the club of Hafnarfjordur and Gardabaer announces the very popular "Icelandic Soroptimist Week." This one week in Iceland has been offered to Soroptimist sisters all over the world since 1989 and each time we get many requests to continue and therefore we are very happy to

SI Attends Commonwealth People's Forum in Australia

Civil society representatives gathered in Perth today for the start of the three-day Commonwealth People’s Forum to discuss and debate key issues facing Commonwealth People. The Forum was officially opened by the Hon. Julia Gillard MP, Prime Minister of Australia in a ceremony also addressed by Premier of Western Australia, The

SI Attends Roundtable on Gender, Food Security and Nutrition

SI's UN Representative to the Food and Agricultural Organisation, Cinzia Palmi, attended the Committee on Food Security, 17 - 22 October 2011. This session coincided with World Food Week. During the World Food Week several meetings were held, mainly on food price volatility, voluntary guidelines on land tenure and natural

SI South Queensland: Supporting Kids in Plight

This week's SoroptiVoice blog comes from Christine Johnstone from SI South Queensland. Here she describes her region's project: Supporting Kids in Plight (SKIP). This is a project which provides life diaries to children in long term foster care through partnership with the local government department of communities. Who can I

SI Reports from Audacia Conference on Education for Girls

A recent global forum on schools and education for girls was held in New York, sponsored by a world renowned school for girls, The Emma Willard School of New York. Successful programmes, best practices and educational policy were presented by leaders in education, technology, media and government. The chair persons

Helping our Community to Help Itself

This week's SoroptiVoice comes from Sue Tonks, from SI Bolton in Lancashire, England. She has been a Soroptimist for 3 years. Her club have developed and run many events in their home town, to help other organisations, spread education and information and promote Soroptimism. The event Sue describes below is

The Feminisation of Ageing

Observance of the 2011 International Day of Older Person* was held in conjunction with the Department of Public Information (DPI), on October 6 in New York. The meeting underscored the progress made in changing attitudes, policies and programmes for older persons during the 10 years after the Madrid International Plan

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