Category: News
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Educating Rupa
Funds from the SI President’s Appeal 2015-2017 will facilitate six months of tuition, textbooks and school uniform for Rupa to ensure that she can complete her education, graduate from high school and realise her dream to study law. The project will be on-going until Rupa is finished her education and becomes independent.
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Classrooms in the Clouds
The Soroptimist International President’s Appeal 2015-2017 is supporting CITC, and the ‘Inspire Programme’, which seeks to improve the educational experience for girls, increase attendance and improve the health of girls allowing them to complete their education.
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The Lost Children
At the 26th Session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice 2017, UN Vienna May 25, 2017, SIE Immediate Past President, Ulla Madsen was panellist at the side event, ‘The Lost Children – Safeguarding unaccompanied migrant minors from going missing’.
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Educate to Lead: Nepal and Harambee Arts – Supporting vulnerable girls through Expressive Arts
Educate to Lead: Nepal is funding a team of seven trainers who travel throughout the country to support and educate vulnerable girls and women through Expressive Arts exercises.
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A Closer Look at Leadership – Part Two
In the second part of our series ‘A Closer Look at Leadership’, we hear from SI Director of Advocacy 2015-2017, Pat Black, SI Assistant Director of Advocacy Sharon Fisher, and from Bette Levy, Marie-D’Amato-Rizzi and Frances Zainoeddin, SI UN Representatives in New York
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Educate to Lead: Nepal and the Women and Girls Education Project
The AHF Women and Girl’s Education Project (WGEP) in the remote disadvantaged region of the Lower SoluKhumbu region of Nepal is supported by the Soroptimist International President’s Appeal and during the first year, the project has reached and exceeded its original aims.
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A Closer Look at Leadership – the first in a series introduced by Ulla Madsen, Chair of the SI Leadership Development Committee
Immediate Past President of Soroptimist International of Europe and Chair of the SI Leadership Development Committee (LDC), Ulla Madsen, introduces the first in a series of video interviews with SI Directors, Officers and UN Representatives, past and present, with the aim of increasing awareness of the work of SI and the SI leadership opportunities available.
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SI President-Elect Mariet Verhoef-Cohen appointed Vice-Chair Water Scarcity Committee
Mariet Verhoef-Cohen appointed Vice-Chair of the interim Steering Committee (SC). Mariet Verhoef-Cohen says: “I am very honoured to be chosen as Vice-Chair of this prominent group on Water Scarcity in Agriculture”.
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Ms Lakshmi Puri Reports on CSW61 – Analysis of the Agreed Conclusions
“The 61st session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW61) took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, from 13 – 24 March 2017, at a critical juncture in the changing political landscape and realignment of forces mobilized around the gender equality and women’s empowerment agenda (GEWE). Champions of GEWE, human…
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Soroptimists and Free A Girl
Find out how Soroptimists are supporting the Free a Girl Movement and the School for Justice, which offers support, tuition and the mentoring required for girls to reach university level.