This week's SoroptiVoice Blog comes from Helen Owen, SIGBI Assistant Programme Director for Education. Helen is a member of SI Runcorn, Frodsham and District in the UK. Here she talks about the importance of supporting International Literacy Day and projects which support literacy in countries and communities where this vital

Julie Marsaban is an Independent Health Promotion Consultant with over 20 years experience in the field of maternal and child health. She was the Communications and Gender Advisor to the Special Presidential Envoy on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for the President of the Republic of Indonesia until her recent relocation

You may remember back in March we ran a special series of blog postings on our Soroptimist Commonwealth "Women as Agents of Change". It was recently bought to our attention that one of the nominations did not reach us here at SIHQ and so we would like to take the

This week's SoroptiVoice comes from Ruth Dodd, SIGBI's Assistant Programme Director for the Environment. Ruth joined SI in 1997 and is a member of Amber Valley Club in Derbyshire, England. Here she talks about the challenge of global water shortages and what Soroptimists can do to help. It's World Environment

This weeks guest blogger is Ulrike Neubert, SIE's Programme Director.  "Investing in women is smart economy" - here she reflects upon this statement and the need to empower women economically as well as socially. 'Investing in women is smart economy": This is a statement which was first circulated by the world bank and has

As the April 15th deadline for early bird registration draws closer, SI are posting a special series of blog posts introducing some of brilliant key note and plenary speakers who will be appearing at Convention. Remember, the early bird gets the worm - register now! When Canadian medical geographer Dr. Kirsty

This weeks guest blogger is Rita Allen, SIGBI's Assistant Programme Director for Health. Here she talks about the UNICEF petition calling for the UK Government to contribute more money to the Global Fund and announces SIGBI's exciting new partnership with 'Mother and Child Advocacy International'. UNICEF UK’s Campaign Team recently delivered

SI was privileged to take part in the Commonwealth's 'Women as Agents of Change' competition, launched to celebrate the theme of Commonwealth Day 2011. Although we were restricted to only 3 nominations, we received many fantastic submissions. This week, we will be running a special blog series to celebrate all

This weeks guest blogger is Kirsti Guttormsen from SI Molde, Norway. Here she considers the importance of getting more women into science and technology and shares ideas on how to do it! Women and Girls in Science and Technology - this was a main topic at CSW 55, but who