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Helping our Community to Help Itself

This week's SoroptiVoice comes from Sue Tonks, from SI Bolton in Lancashire, England. She has been a Soroptimist for 3 years. Her club have developed and run many events in their home town, to help other organisations, spread education and information and promote Soroptimism. The event Sue describes below is

Soroptimist from Pakistan Awarded “Woman Super Achiever Award”

Dr. Mussaret Anwar Sheikh, Chairperson Education, Associate Professor, Fatima Jinnah Women University and Federation Executive Councilor (FEC) Pakistan for Soroptimist International of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (SIGBI) has won an award in the Asia Best Business School Awards held at Suntec, Singapore. She is the first woman of Pakistan

SIGBI and UNICEF Partner for Pakistan Flood Victims

Dr Talat Pasha, Soroptimist International of Great Britain and Ireland Assistant Programme Director for Goodwill and and Understanding, reports from Karachi. With many children still recovering from last year's devastating floods, up to 2.5 million children in Sindh have now been affected by the unusually heavy monsoon rains and floods

"Baby Hatches": A Safer Future for Vulnerable Babies

This week's SoroptiVoice blog comes from Helena Cheah from Malaysia. Here she talks about the Malaysian response to unwanted babies and the emergence of the 'baby hatch' as an alternative to baby 'dumping'. Many countries have strict laws concerning sexual morality and enforced segregation of unmarried men and women. Sex

Soroptimist International Friendship Day: October 3rd

Today is Soroptimist International’s Club Friendship Day, celebrating the day that the very first Soroptimist Club was established in Oakland, California in 1921. Together, across continents and cultures, Soroptimists transform the lives of women and girls in need through local and international projects, friendship links with other clubs, and partnerships

Women and Peace Building – SI Position Statement

Below is the official advocacy position statement from Soroptimist International on women and peace building: Soroptimist International is committed to working towards the achievement of sustainable peace and supports the promotion of effective methods of conflict resolution and arms limitation. Global peace is integral with a sustainable environment, the just

DPI/NGO Conference: "Green is the New Brown"

The second day of DPI NGO opened with a roundtable on Green Economy and Poverty Eradication. In particular, the roundtable focussed on the green economy through the lens of climate change, and what this means for poverty eradication and economic growth in both the global north and the global south.

DPI NGO Blog Special: Care as an essential aspect of Sustainability

Welcome to DPI NGO! This is the second of a series of special blog reports that will be posted over the next ten days about this 64th Annual DPI/NGO Conference: Sustainable Societies, Responsive Citizens. Hilary Ratcliffe reports back on the rest of her DPI/NGO experience. By now, moving towards the end of the third

DPI NGO Blog Special: Networking for Change

Welcome to DPI NGO! This is the first of a series of special blog reports that will be posted over the next ten days about this 64th Annual DPI/NGO Conference: Sustainable Societies, Responsive Citizens. Hilary Ratcliffe is the first to report back on her busy day here in Bonn. We have just eaten lunch with representatives

Soroptimism and cheese. But more about Soroptimism.

This week's blog comes from SIHQ Programme Director, Reilly Dempsey. She shares how she, though not technically a Soroptimist, is Soroptimism! Read on and you'll understand....Click HERE to join the Facebook discussion on what Soroptimism means to you. Okay, so technically I’m not a Soroptimist, but hey, this whole

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