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SI Programme Blog

This BLOG is a flexible and modern tool that will help us get programme information to Soroptimists quickly. We plan for you to get postings 'from the field' of activities as they are happening including Sierra Leone during the Study Tour, UN Events, and information from your Programme Focus reports.

We look forward to getting responses and ideas from you about service! Please keep us busy with 'postings'!

The blog forms part of our plan to enhance and expand our information sharing capacity.

Please be a frequent visitor and feel free to send ideas or questions to our address.
 

Dawn Marie Lemonds
SI Programme Director

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Programme Focus Goals 2007-2011

Soroptimists will ensure that women and girls

• enjoy equity and equality
• live in safe and healthy environments
• have access to education
• have leadership and practical skills

 

Programme Focus Objectives

1. Eliminate poverty and gender discrimination through ensuring women’s full social and economic rights
2. End human trafficking and all forms of violence against women and girls
3. Ensure access to health care for women and girls
4. Support programmes and policies that eliminate HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis and other major diseases
5. Improve access to clean water, sanitation and essential food resources
6. Mitigate the effects of climate change and integrate sustainability into personal choices and government policies and programmes
7. Meet the needs of women and girls during and after armed conflicts and disasters
8. Promote peaceful conflict resolution, inter-cultural and inter-racial tolerance and condemn genocide and terrorism
9. Ensure equal access to education and training for women and girls throughout their lifespan
10. Assure women’s advancement in management, politics and decision making

Note: Numbering is not in order of priority

Environmental work
in the Philippines

Basket making in
Rwanda (above)

A Global Voice, a Focused Vision

As Soroptimists we are A Global Voice for Women. We have achieved this by working together toward our common goal: A better world for all, by making it a better world for women and girls.

The 2007-2011 Programme Focus is our blueprint for awareness, advocacy and action. It was developed to ensure that we as Soroptimists continue to be A Global Voice for Women.

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Every Soroptimist's Focus

The 2007 - 2011 Focus is the result of a year-long consultative process to which Soroptimists from around the world contributed. Its final form and content was ratified by the votes of representatives from all four Soroptimist International Federations at the 2007 International Board Meeting in Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Focus on the Focus

The first step is for clubs to choose which goal or goals to focus on and then which objective or objectives. The next step is to develop the strategies that work best in your community to achieve your chosen goals and objectives.

• Click on this link to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) developed by the Programme Team to assist this process.

 

The Programme Focus Team: Here to Help You

The Soroptimist International Programme Team (the Programme Director, her Assistant, your Federation Programme Director/Liaison, and SI HQ) are ready to assist you with ideas and suggestions for developing successful strategies for awareness, advocacy and action.
 

Online Programme Focus Database

• Find out how to submit your Programme Focus Reports online

Soroptimists Advocating for Human Rights for All

SI Programme Focus Objective 5:

Improve access to clean water, sanitation and essential food resources

Please join Soroptimist International of Europe in their ongoing campaign ‘Soroptimists go for Water’, supporting women worldwide to access safe drinking water and basic sanitation.

Sign the petition at http://www.article31.org/ which calls upon the United Nations to add a 31st article to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, establishing access to clean and potable water as a fundamental human right.