We were delighted to be able to pass on our Sainsbury’s vouchers to Carronhill School in Stonehaven. As you can see Alani Manson is busy baking with some of the utensils the school acquired.
Meru Women’s Garden Project 2016-2019 – report from Janice Rees Aberdeen Soroptomists got off to a good start fundraising for this worthwhile Federation project. This is a three year project in partnership with child.org to educate, empower and enable women in Meru to become self-sufficient. We will support some of the poorest women-led households in Kenya. The focus will be to provide opportunities for women and girls to feed their families, earn an income and give them status within their community. Our first year has seen us raise a grand total of £1,651. We kicked off our first event by celebrating the Queen’s 90th birthday. Other events have been well supported and included a buffet evening, curry night, sale of unwanted Christmas presents and a sale of recipe cards and books. This next year we are planning more fund raising events and plan to have
At last week’s AGM Pat Stewart chaired her final meeting with her usual cheery smile and gave an excellent resume of the years’ activities. Pat then passed on the chain of office to our new President Sue Kinsey who presented Pat with flowers and also thanked Pat for being the first member to carry out a two year stint at the helm.
Every year we take part in the annual Daffodil collection for Marie Curie. The photograph was taken at our stand in the Bon-Accord Centre on Friday 24th March Margaret Smith and Marjory Smart looking the part.
A Group of SI Aberdeen members and friends enjoyed a great curry supper at the home of member Janice Rees
Four members of SI Aberdeen Pat Moir, Audrey, Marjory and Janice, organised and prepared a delicious supper at Cults Bowling Club in aid of the Meru Garden Project. Members enjoyed a buffet meal, raffle and a chance to buy various exotically flavoured jams. The evening raised £1200.00.
It was agreed by our membes to use £200 from the £1000 donation given to the club by Poppy Vejjabul for loans to women through the KIVA scheme. Kiva is an organisation which helps people obtain loans to carry out projects. They often work with people who live in some of the poorest countries in the world – people who are not able to go to a bank for a loan. Kiva only started in 2005, yet since then 1,299,877 lenders have made loans of $714,978,975 in 85 different countries, with a 98.72% repayment rate. More information is available at www.kiva.org SI Aberdeen have made 5 loans of $50 (c£40.80) totalling £204.80. These are the recipients of the loans: Maria from Paraguay Maria is from the city of Asuncion. She is studying in her third semester towards a law degree. Maria has many goals that
Members of SI Aberdeen enjoying the sun at the Federation conference in Malta.
Members of SI Aberdeen enjoyed an afternoon at the Town House Aberdeen where they were presented with individual gold awards for volunteering within the Aberdeen area. A delicious afternoon tea was also provided by Aberdeen City Council.
