{"id":5395,"date":"2021-01-10T19:02:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/?p=5395"},"modified":"2021-01-10T19:02:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:02:38","slug":"si-bristol-embraces-activism-2020-orange-the-world-fund-respond-prevent-collect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/2021\/01\/10\/si-bristol-embraces-activism-2020-orange-the-world-fund-respond-prevent-collect\/","title":{"rendered":"SI Bristol Embraces Activism 2020: Orange the World: Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/01\/Orange-the-Worlrl-2020.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5403\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/01\/Orange-the-Worlrl-2020-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/01\/Orange-the-Worlrl-2020-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/01\/Orange-the-Worlrl-2020-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/01\/Orange-the-Worlrl-2020.png 546w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>SI Bristol embraced the \u201816 Days of Activism\u2019 for 19 days!\u00a0 (22<sup>nd<\/sup> November to 10<sup>th<\/sup> December)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A cohort of our members \u2018attended\u2019 <em>The Creative Forum<\/em> that Tara Arkle organised to replace the SI Weston super Mare annual <em>Railing Against Abuse<\/em> planned to gather in London this year. This Forum was on 22<sup>nd<\/sup> November \u2013 three days prior to the United Nations (UN) <em>International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women<\/em> annual awareness day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This multi-year UN <em>End Violence against Women<\/em> campaign is an effort aimed at preventing and eliminating violence against women and girls. This year the focus was \u201con amplifying the call for global action to bridge funding gaps, ensure essential services for survivors of violence during the COVID-19 crisis, focus on prevention, and collection of data that can improve life-saving services for women and girls.\u201d The 2020 theme was \u201cOrange the World: Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect!\u201d and 25<sup>th<\/sup> November marked the launch of <em>16 Days of Activism <\/em>that concluded on 10<sup>th <\/sup>December 2020 \u2013 the UN International Human Rights Day.<\/p>\n<p>During the 16 days, SI Bristol\u2019s social media daily featured relevant posts. Members of SI Bristol all wore orange (see above) at their Zoom Club meeting on 23<sup>rd<\/sup> November and throughout the 16 day period, continued to wear orange when out and about.<\/p>\n<p>On 1<sup>st<\/sup> December, Yvonne (our Programme Action Officer), handed over Christmas gifts to a representative from Unseen for survivors of <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/01\/Christmas-Gifts-for-Unseen-2020-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5401\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/01\/Christmas-Gifts-for-Unseen-2020-2-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/01\/Christmas-Gifts-for-Unseen-2020-2-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/01\/Christmas-Gifts-for-Unseen-2020-2.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>modern slavery. Thirteen survivors (8 women and 5 men) will be spending the festive season in Safe Houses operated by Unseen in Bristol. The gifts included donations of Boots\u2019 Gifts Vouchers, which totaled \u00a3315.00 and 13 beautifully crafted and unique drawstring bags, each handmade by a club member from fabric donated by Hillarys Bristol Showrooms.\u00a0 It was decided that due to the extraordinary present circumstances, practical activities would be beneficial to survivors. Thus, we also gave items that were surplus to our needs (no shopping required), such as knitting yarn and needles, art paper, paints, and numerous other craft items. The response we obtained from staff at Unseen was \u201cWe are all \u2018blown away\u2019 with your thoughtful bags, messages and card, not to mention the vouchers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/01\/Human-Rights-Day-10th-December-2020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5402\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/01\/Human-Rights-Day-10th-December-2020-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/01\/Human-Rights-Day-10th-December-2020-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/01\/Human-Rights-Day-10th-December-2020.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2021\/01\/Human-Rights-Day-10th-December-2020-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our 16 Days of Activism culminated with a talk delivered via Zoom by Andrew Wallis, OBE, CEO of Unseen, which was entitled <em>Road to Equality<\/em>. In addition to members of SI Bristol, the talk was \u2018attended\u2019 by members from our Friendship Link clubs: SI Chester and SI Halifax and by SI Weston- super-Mare. It was very well received and highly appropriate on Human Rights Day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SI Bristol embraced the \u201816 Days of Activism\u2019 for 19 days!\u00a0 (22nd November to 10th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":584,"featured_media":5403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-programme-action"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SI Bristol Embraces Activism 2020: Orange the World: Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect! | News | Blog | Events | SI Bristol<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Bristol : Blog &amp; News : SI Bristol Embraces Activism 2020: Orange the World: Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect! : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Bristol . 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