Soroptimist International (SI) is delighted to be shortlisted for the 2018 Incredible Impacts Programme, announced by Best Cities Global Alliance and the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA). SI joins the African Women in Leadership Organisation, the World Environmental Education Congress Network and others, on the final shortlist of 12 international organisations who inspired judges.
The high-level political forum (HLPF) on sustainable development will meet for two weeks, from Monday, 9 July, to Wednesday, 18 July 2018. The theme is 'Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies'.
Soroptimist International (SI) and Women for Water Partnership (WfWP) members, together with the Ngara Girls High School, Nairobi, mobilised school girls, women and other like-minded stakeholders to participate in a school environment clean-up and tree planting event, to mark this year’s World Environment Day.
Soroptimist Bianca Leemkuil from the Netherlands, surprised Mallika with a cheque for €55.000, as a donation to the unique and progressive programme School for Justice, which was set up in Mumbai, India in 2017. Securing massive media attention around the world, the ground-breaking programme which rescues girls from child prostitution, educates and trains girls to become lawyers and prosecutors, and in doing so, affords them the power to prosecute the criminals that once owned them.