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  • BBC 100 Women Season – Soroptimists urged to participate

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    Soroptimists across the world are being urged to take part in the BBC’s 100 Women season, which is highlighting the challenges and opportunities facing women in the 21st century. During October the Corporation’s news and current affairs programmes are featuring the struggle to access education, healthcare and better wages along with the real dangers posed…

  • Empowering Rural Women, Promoting Food Security

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      Image: SI Antananarivo Doyen "Seeds for All" project, part of the SI Union of Madagascar initiative  to improve food security and benefit households headed by women. A Soroptimist International of Europe Best Practice Award winner, supported by the German Soroptimist Union.  On the International Day of Rural Women, Soroptimist International focuses on the role…

  • International Day of Rural Women

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      On the International Day of Rural Women, Soroptimist International will focus on the role of rural women as vital agents for economic change and the actions needed to advance their rights and enable their full participation in meeting the 21st century’s global priority of improving food security. Marked annually, this day is intentionally celebrated…

  • Soroptimist International Finland 60th Anniversary

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    During the weekend of 12 October, 2013, SI Union of Finland, will celebrate its sixtieth anniversary. More information. Soroptimist International President Ann Garvie will be speaker of honour, and Soroptimist International of Europe Peace Prize nominee Christina Salmivalli, founder of KiVa School, will also speak.  

  • Open Hearts, Open Doors – Broadening Girls' Horizons

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      Today on International Day of the Girl, our SoroptiVoice blog comes from 17 year-old Teresa and her godmother,  Anna Elisabeth Mueller, a Soroptimist from Lienz in Austria. Educating and empowering girls is not just about helping them fulfil their academic potential; Soroptimists are also committed to offering non-formal learning opportunities and helping to broaden…

  • International Day of the Girl Child: Innovating for Girls' Education

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      International Day of the Girl Child on 11th October, focuses on the rights of girls and the challenges they face globally. This year’s theme is "Innovating for Girls’ Education". World attention has been focussed on the 33 million girls not at school by the campaigning of inspirational Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, shot by the…

  • A Soroptimist journey of friendship: celebrating a new club in Kenya

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    Soroptimists worldwide mark October 3, the foundation date of the first club in Oakland (USA) in 1921, as Club Friendship Day, celebrating the role of SI in bringing together women from different cultures and backgrounds. In this week’s SoroptiVoice blog, Cathy Coyte writes about celebrating the birth of one of the newest Soroptimist clubs, SI…

  • Educate, Exchange, Connect: Building international friendship and understanding

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      17 Soroptimists from 9 countries in the SI South West Pacific Federation will be arriving in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia this week at the beginning of an exchange programme that aims to promote international friendship and understanding, as well as greater participation by younger women in the Soroptimist movement. “The young ambassadors will learn, share…

  • Education For All – Soroptimist hopes for 2015

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    Soroptimist International President Ann Garvie spoke about the importance of education for women and girls at the  first Forum of NGOs in Official Partnership with UNESCO in Paris on 23rd September 2013. Organised by the NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee in cooperation with the UNESCO Secretariat the event was an opportunity for NGOs to come together and…

  • Come Dream With Us – LiveYourDream.org

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      Soroptimism has always been about women coming together to build a better world; increasingly, digital communications offer new ways of bringing people together for a shared purpose, creating new communities and sustaining existing relationships. In this week’s SoroptiVoice blog, Alyssa Ketterer, Digital Marketing Manager for Soroptimist International of the Americas, introduces Live Your Dream,…