Education IS Empowerment

Throughout December, we are delighted to welcome SI leadership to the SoroptiVoice blog spot! This week, SISWP President Yvonne talks about how education IS empowerment - and how Soroptimists are working to ensure this at all stages of life. In previous weeks we have heard from SIGBI  Maureen, SIA President

SIGBI Federation Project – The 3E Project: Healthcare

Throughout December, we are delighted to welcome SI leadership to the SoroptiVoice blog spot! This week, SIGBI President Maureen presents the new SIGBI Federation project 'The 3E Project: Healthcare', explains how it relates to SI's programme of work under education and leadership, and how it seeks to address maternal mortality

Are you a Guerilla Gardener? Could you be? Read on…

Throughout December, we are delighted to welcome SI leadership to the SoroptiVoice blog spot! This week, SIE President Kathy explains why she selected water and food as the theme for her presidency, and shares the phenomenon of 'guerilla gardening'... coming to an urban waste land near you! Next Friday, to

16 Ways to Say No to Violence Against Women

16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign is an international campaign that began in 1991. From November 25th, the International Day of Elimination of Violence Against Women, to December 10th, International Human Rights Day, the campaign calls on individuals and groups around the world to act to end all

Women's Opportunity Awards: "Courage in Every Crisis"

This week's SoroptiVoice blog comes from SIA's new Federation Programme Director Sharon Fisher. She writes about SIA's flagship Women's Opportunity Award and shares the stories of some of the award winners. Today also marks the start of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence - the stories she

Feto Hemerik Rasik: Women Helping Each Other in East Timor

This week’s SoroptiVoice blog comes from Florence Brennan, SI South West Pacific ‘zone d’ coordinator (not sure what that means? Click here to read SISWP Federation Programme Director Robyn’s blog to find out!). Here, Florence talks about a project supported by Western Australian Soroptimists in East Timor. The idea for

Refugee Families Welcomed to Townsville, Australia

More than 50 refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burma, Bhutan and Nepal were welcomed to Townsville at a picnic on October 30th, 2011. This event was organised to continue the vital work of SI Townsville in providing support and friendship to refugee women and their families, for

In a room full of friends, anything is possible!

This week's SoroptiVoice Blog comes from Sue Biggs, SIGBI's new Federation Programme Director. For her first contribution (of many, we hope!) she reflects on the recent SIGBI Conference held in Brighton at the end of October -  her first as Federation Programme Director. My first Soroptiblog and my first SIGBI

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