SI Cannock and District Projects

Each Soroptimist International club identifies the needs of its community, then establishes specific projects to address these needs. All our projects relate to one or more of the six Programme Focus Areas: Economic and Social Development, Education, Environment, Health, Human Rights and the Status of Women, and International Goodwill and Understanding.

The projects listed below include some of the local and international issues we research and support in SI Cannock and District:

South African Creche and Nurse Training

Over the last few years Cannock club has fully equipped TWO creches in townships near Capetown, South Africa and is presently raising the funds to equip a third. The club has also paid for the training of two nurses to work in the townships.

This work has been made possible because of the hard work of one of the members of our club who spends a few months each year in South Africa. She has seen first hand the needs of the people of the black townships and has been able to personally supervise the allocation of the funds.

Here is the second nurse we helped with our member Trish Smith.

S.N.A.P- Special Needs Adventure Playground

S.I. Cannock supports the Special Needs Adventure Playground in Pye Green Road, Cannock. It is one of very few Adventure Playgrounds designed specifically for children with Special Needs.

The emphasis for the Special Needs Adventure Playground (SNAP) has to be a safe, secure environment with facilities and equipment designed to engage, interest and stretch children with even the most profound of disabilities. To this end the equipment snap offers has been chosen very carefully to ensure that there is something for every child no matter what the nature or degree of their disability.

SNAP also provides a valuable opportunity for parents to relax safe in the knowledge that their children are in a secure environment where they can play in an unfettered way enjoying to the full their new found freedom. In addition to this parents can also benefit from the support they are able to offer each other. Very often parents in these circumstances can become isolated and feel that they are the only ones with a particular problem.snap gives them the opportunity to discuss and share their problems and experiences with like minded people in a mutually supportive environment.

SNAP also provides a party venue which can be booked for any children’s party at reasonable cost at arranged times.

for more information visit:

http://www.snapcannock.co.uk/

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=69798143237

The Pathway Project

SI Cannock supports the Pathway Project – a charity providing refuge accommodation in Burntwood, Lichfield and Tamworth. It supports local woman experiencing domestic violence. Members provide Christmas gifts, toiletries and donate household goods.

For more information go to:

http://www.pathway-project.co.uk/