This week's SoroptiVoiceBlog comes from Talat Pasha, Past-President of Soroptimist International Karachi Central (Pakistan). She talks about the need to build women's confidence and encourage them to open their lives to new friends and learning opportunities, wherever they are in the world. Empowerment can be financial or emotional. Sometimes women

  This weeks SoroptiVoice blog comes from Leigh Ellwood-Brown, SI Organisational Development Committee Chair. Leigh talks about a recent trip to Beijing, a trip which was historically relevant and shows the great relationships that SI build with other women's organisations around the world. To keep our contact and connection with the All China Women’s Federation,

This week's SoroptiVoice Blog comes from International Programme Director Hilary Ratcliffe.  'Vienna city of the Blue Danube, opera and art', but is that why we are here? No, it is our representation at the United Nations that has brought representatives from our centres in Europe together to discuss issues and 

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you”  B.B.King - Guitarist. This week's SoroptiVoice Blog comes from Janet Hodgson, SIGBI Assistant Programme Director for Learning Opportunities. Janet is a member of SI Rugby in Warwickshire, the home of the game of Rugby. The poet Rupert

This weeks SoroptiVoice Blog comes from Dawn-Marie Lemonds, past International Programme Director and Club President of SI Newport Harbor Area. 'I have the great fortune and honor of being my Club President this year. I wanted to start the year with an opportunity to find out what members really want

This weeks blog comes from Governor Linda Sue Hansen of the Founder region! She talks about what it is to be a Soroptimist and a project she is involved with in Kenya raising funds for schools.  Part of the reason I became a Soroptimist was the international aspect of doing

Roman Soroptimists had the privilege of visiting rooms in Rome that are normally closed to the public. Christina Höfferer cultural journalist in Rome and Soroptimist from Vienna reports back for the SoroptiVoice blog! The Colonna family is one of the oldest Roman noble families. In the middle ages their members

This week’s SoroptiVoice is another wonderful portrait of a Soroptimist, written and researched by Christina Höfferer. In one of the most beautiful monasteries of Rome Christina, a Soroptimist from Vienna, who works as a journalist in the Italian capital, interviewed a Soroptimist from Austria, Marina Meuser Kasimir, who is on

This weeks Soroptivoice blog comes from Anna McCormick, the new Programme Manager at SIHQ, Cambridge. She has recently been liaising with Jeremy Giles, founder of Peace One Day, with regards to a collaboration between their organisation and Soroptimist International for International Peace Day, 21 September 2012, on their ‘Global Truce

This week's SoroptiVoice comes from Dawn Marie Lemmonds, past International Programme Director of Soroptimist International. Dawn Marie is a member of SIA Newport Harbor Area, and together they supported a young lady to complete her nursing degree through the Women's Opportunity Award. A few months ago Lee shared her story