The "Our House" (Evimiz) project in the city of Izmir in Turkey was one of the Soroptimist International "Projects of Excellence" highlighted in the 2011 Global Impact Report. This week's SoroptiVoice blog is by Project Co-ordinator Yildiz Belger, a member of President of Goztepe Soroptimist Club since 1979, formerly Club President, Governor of SI/Turkey and SIE IGU

In the second of two SoroptiVoice posts from Soroptimists in India, reacting to the terrible gang-rape and murder in Delhi, Sujatha Balakrishnan, President of SI Bangalore reflects on how attitudes to women need to change. The attack in Delhi reflects the fact that our views concerning women in India date back to

This week, the SoroptiVoice blog will feature two posts from Soroptimists in India, reacting to the terrible gang-rape and murder of a young woman in Delhi, which has caused outrage across India and the world.  Today's blog is by Annette Mascarenhas, President and Councillor of the National Association of Soroptimist International of India.

The recent horrific attack on two young women in Delhi has caused outrage across India and the world,  highlighting once again the need to change social attitudes to women and gender-violence. Over the next two weeks, we will be hearing from some members of the seventeen Soroptimist clubs in India,

As President Elect of the SIGBI Federation, Pat Black travelled to India to charter a new Soroptimist club in the south of the country. President Maureen Maguire asked me if I could deputise for her and go to India, to charter a new club at Kodaikanal while she was chartering SI

In the last months of her term as  President of the SIGBI Federation, Maureen Maguire travelled extensively to charter new clubs and see the work that members are doing around the world. Reproduced with kind permission from SIGBI's newsletter, Soroptimist News December 2012. In July, I flew to Nepal to charter

This special SoroptiVoice Blog for December 10 comes from Meredith Tutumang of SI Lae in Papua New Guinea, one of the SI clubs involved in the Birthing in the Pacific project. Meredith Tutumang is the Team Leader for the Village Birth Attendant Programme under SI Lae. In August 2012, the first community

In this week's SoroptiVoice Blog, Sumie Ito, SIA Japan Higashi Region and SIA Board Member, writes about attending the 2012 Annual Meeting IMF/World Bank Civil Society Policy Forum at Tokyo International Forum from 9-13 October. It will become an unforgettable five days in my life! The Forum brought together IMF

At this year’s Board meeting in Cambridge, UK, we asked Soroptimist International board members and post-holders to bring with them an object important to them in their life as a Soroptimist. Many members brought in their wonderful items and shared with us their story. Below are but a few of

This weeks SoroptiVoice Blog comes from International Programme Director Hilary Ratcliffe. Hilary spent  a week at the FAO in Rome, celebrating both World Food Day and International Day of Rural Women. Hilary attended a series of meetings at the FAO and gave a talk on the importance of women in