Author: watchthedot
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Lee's Story – Determining Her Own Destiny with Support from Soroptimists
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 at our Soroptimist meeting. This…
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Thank You from SI Japan
In June Soroptimist International Past President Hanne Jensbo received a thank you letter from SI Japan, following the support of Soroptimist worldwide after the earthquake of April 2011. Hanne shares the letter here, along with a thank you video produced by SI Japan. Dear Hanne, We, the board members of Japan Kita Region, had visited…
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Exciting new developments for SI's website
It’s been a year and a half since we launched the new and improved website and we thought it was in need of a refresh! Over the last few months we have worked hard to update and brighten up our web pages making the site more user friendly and interactive. We have now replaced the…
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Momentous Decision taken by Women Leaders at Cambridge
Senior decision makers of Soroptimist International, a global movement linking women across the world which seeks to transform the lives of women and girls through service, met this week in Cambridge, England. The Board members, drawn from across all continents to represent the four Federations who are members of Soroptimist International, made the momentous decision…
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Grant of Friendship – Soroptimist International Southern England
Soroptimist International of Southern England Region of SIGBI is offering an opportunity for a Soroptimist to visit to share and exchange experiences for a period of two weeks from 19th June 2013. For further information on the grant and how to apply for this exciting opportunity, please click here.
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From Gender Blender to Gentler Gender
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 games as a way of…
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Rio + 20: What now?
The Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) in Rio de Janeiro on 20-22 June 2012 brought together world leaders, government officials, and civil society and private sector representatives who sought the best ways to work towards achieving a global ‘green economy’, poverty eradication and sustainable development. Long before the conference even began, however,…
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Helping Women and Girls to Live Their Dreams Through "Educate to Lead"
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 and girls throughout the world…
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Olympic Flame for Soroptimist International!
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 ‘once in a lifetime day’…
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AIDS Foundation Award to SI Denmark!
For many years the Union of Denmark has been supporting the Danish AIDS foundation. This work has now been recognised through a national award, presented on behalf of the Danish AIDS Foundation. This award celebrates and acknowledges their advocacy and awareness raising work. Since 2004, Soroptimist International Denmark has been a loyal partner of World…