SI Club Ba, Fiji, ran a project called 'SI Youths Reaching Out to Rural Women and Girls and Educating Them for Better Health & Better Life', working with women from four villages of Navala, Namau, Nadrugu and Tabuquto, inland from the coast of Viti Levu, Fiji.
Each year, NGO CSW/NY has between five to eight interns to help facilitate the mission of the committee to achieve gender equality, and to help with the customer service during the actual Commission. Since 2016, Soroptimist International has sponsored the internship programme. Here, we get to know a little about the interns for 2017/2018.
The official celebration of World Food Day on 16 October 2017 has the theme: 'Change the future of migration. Invest in food security and rural development'. In a blog, SI UN Representative, Rome, Liliana Mosca reports on this weeks' 44th Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS 44), 9-13 October 2017, held at the Headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Rome, Italy.
29 July 2017, Rotterdam, Mariet Verhoef-Cohen, Netherlands was inaugurated with overwhelming support as President of Soroptimist International (SI) for the 2017 – 2019 biennium; the first Dutch President in the organisation’s almost 100-year existence. In our first interview for the new SI Members Area, we talk to Mariet about her history as a Soroptimist, her love of Gender and Water, and her plans for the coming biennium.
Soroptimist International aligns its work with the Sustainable Development Goals to improve the lives of women and girls. Read SI's contribution to online magazine Impaker's 'United Nations SDG series'.