Education is a human right, a public good and a public responsibility. The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 24 January 2019 as the first International Day of Education, in celebration of the role of education for peace and development. The 2020 celebration will position education and the learning it enables as humanity’s greatest renewable resource

Soroptimist International has General Consultative Status to ECOSOC, and can therefore submit statements relevant to the issues being discussed at forthcoming ECOSOC meetings. SI, in conjunction with other partner Organisations, have released a statement on Homelessness, focusing specifically on how this affects women and girls. This is in preparation for the 58th session of the

On 11th December 2019, girls from Great Sankey High School (www.greatsankey.org) attended a ceremony to charter their newly-formed SOROPTISTARS School Club. This initiative grew out of the ongoing collaboration between the Warrington-based High School and Soroptimist International of Warrington (www.sigbi.org/warrington), a women’s volunteer organisation that works in the community to transform the lives of women