{"id":5145,"date":"2025-03-07T17:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/?p=5145"},"modified":"2025-03-07T18:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T17:04:45","slug":"international-womens-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/2025\/03\/07\/international-womens-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women&#8217;sDay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2025\/03\/IMG_7578.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5156 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2025\/03\/IMG_7578-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2025\/03\/IMG_7578-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2025\/03\/IMG_7578.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 To celebrate International Women&#8217;s Day over 100 people attended a breakfast meeting at Les Cotils with students from \u00a0Year 10, 11 and sixth form taking part. Mrs Cripwell our patron was also in attendance. Thanks to Grant Thornton for\u00a0 sponsoring the event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2025\/03\/IMG_7553.jpg\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5150\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2025\/03\/IMG_7553-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2025\/03\/IMG_7553-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2025\/03\/IMG_7553.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our guest speaker Deputy Bailiff Jessica Roland gave an inspiring talk of her life journey incorporating\u00a0 number of quotes to support her story.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of them:<a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2025\/03\/IMG_7572.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5154 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2025\/03\/IMG_7572-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2025\/03\/IMG_7572-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2025\/03\/IMG_7572.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Life is a journey not a destination<\/li>\n<li>We cannot discover new oceans until we have the courage to loose sight of the shore.<\/li>\n<li>Anyone can stay the same. It takes courage to change.<\/li>\n<li>You Define your own life. Don\u2019t let other people write your story<\/li>\n<li>Do not judge me by successes, judge me about how many times I fell down and got back up again ( Nelson Mandela)<\/li>\n<li>People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did. They will never forget how you made them feel. (Mya<\/li>\n<li>Fearlessness is not the absence of fears. We have fears and doubts. Fearlessness is living despite these challenges. (Taylor Swift<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Students\u00a0 pictured with Deputy Bailiff Jessica Roland.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5155 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2025\/03\/IMG_7574-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"429\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2025\/03\/IMG_7574-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2025\/03\/IMG_7574.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\u00a0 \u00a0 To celebrate International Women&#8217;s Day over 100 people attended a breakfast meeting at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":868,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>International Women&#039;sDay | News | Blog | Events | SI Guernsey<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Guernsey : Blog &amp; News : International Women&#039;sDay : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Guernsey . 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