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

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

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 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

Julie is  a member of SI Hobart, Tasmania. She is one of SISWP Programme Coordinators and a regular SoroptiVoice Blog writer (Click here and here to read her other blogs). In this blog post she explains how, in the course of her work, she came to develop the hands-on participatory

This week's SoroptiVoice blog comes from SIA Executive Director Liz Lucas. Having been in post for almost 12 months, she takes the opportunity to reflect on what the SI 'Educate to Lead' programme of work means for Soroptimist International of the Americas, and how Soroptimists are helping thousands of women

This week's brief SoroptiVoice Blog comes from past International Assistant Programme Director Margaret Cook. She had the honour of taking part in the Olympic Torch relay 2 weeks ago - and she certainly carried the flame for Soroptimist's all over the world! Well done Margaret! Sunday June 24th was a

This week's SoroptiVoice blog comes from Ruth Dodd SIGBI Assistant Programme Director for Environmental Sustainability. Ruth has been a member of SI since 1997 and is president elect of her club SI Amber Valley in the UK. The term biodiversity describes the variety of life on Earth, from micro-organisms to