Soroptimist International of Kenilworth &District Are pleased to invite you to join them at our dinner meeting on Thursday 28th April 2016 Time: 7.00 for 7.30 Price: £16 At The Holiday Inn, Kenilworth, Our Speaker will be the dynamic and inspiring Professor Shaheen Sardar Ali From the School of law Universty of Warwick Title “Women’s Rights and Global Justice” RSVP by 14th April
SI Kenilworth and District invite you to our 1940s’ tea dance as part of HRH The Queens’ 90th Birthday Celebrations! Featuring Maggie Bartmanis and accompanist Adrian Moore Come and join us for an afternoon of high tea, music and fun on Saturday 14th May at 3 -6pm Venue: St Francis’ Church Hall, 110 Warwick Rd, Kenilworth, CV8 1HL Price: £14 (includes all food and Tea or Coffee) Proceeds to Myton Hospice For more information and tickets, please see: Tea dance poster
Recently, members decorated a Christmas tree in the St Nicholas Church, Kenilworth, display. The theme was purple and white to recognise the club’s support for the Purple Teardrop campaign. Purple Teardrop is a Soroptimist International initiative against human trafficking and the exploitation of women and girls. Purple is the colour of the campaign.
Here is a good way of using up oddments from your wool stash. Tiny hats for premature babies and bigger hats for babies in the malnutrition wards can be any colour, the brighter the better are always needed, as are knitted socks. Follow the link for patterns: Knitting for babies
Here are the links to some video clips shown at the 2015 conference that you may find of interest: Caught in the traffick – about the grooming of young women The locust effect – about everyday violence Millenium goals 2030 – young people’s opinion of them
Intrepid sisters from SI Kenilworth swam 37 laps (74 lengths) in the annual Swimathon held at the Warwick School pool on 1st November 2015. Over £400 was raised for charity through sponsorship so far.
The 20th Soroptimist International Convention in Istanbul certainly lived up all the expectations of a great Convention, but for me the highlights came on Sunday July 12th 2015 with an all inspiring “Public Speaking Showcase” Fresh ideas and Empowering Women was a theme effortlessly demonstrated by five highly capable young women, aged 18yrs to 22 yrs, setting out on their own paths from different countries across the world. Our own Flora Garner representing England, Ciara Maguire from the Republic of Ireland, Alana Hughes from Northern Ireland, Rose Lakoro Pitoj from Papua New Guinea and Ton Yan Ru from Singapore were the chosen speakers. They each inspired Soroptimists from around the world with their ambitions, conviction, knowledge and vision for their own lives and those of women and girls. At the end of this session the whole, packed auditorium, arose and gave these five extremely
It’s not all doom and gloom in Malawi – just because it’s different doesn’t make it wrong. I overheard a medical student say that they should just drop in a ready-made hospital complete with equipment and that would solve everything – I couldn’t disagree more. The people I met have shown great ingenuity and inventiveness, coming up with pragmatic solutions that work in very trying circumstances using simple local resources. Like all of us, they love people to take an interest and enjoying being praised for what they can do. It’s up to us to encourage and support them to achieve more to meet their needs, not give them what we feel is best. Malawi is known as ‘the warm heart of Africa’ and it deserves its reputation. The people we met were endlessly kind and caring, whether we were lost in the maze of
We’re back safe and sound, enjoying the novelty of hot and cold running water, power and reliable internet. I’m back at the day job; Dave is happily sorting through his one thousand plus wildlife photos down to a respectable number that we can inflict them on our friends. So what did I achieve on my Madventure? It didn’t turn out at all how I had anticipated. On reflection it was perhaps rather arrogant of me to think that I could go for two weeks and help in the pharmacy as a spare pair of hands. I did my best to promote pharmacy as a profession beyond that of just supply both within Queens and the School of Pharmacy, and get the ball rolling about including pharmacists as part of the whole health care team. I thoroughly enjoyed giving the talks to the medical and
Well, it’s my chance to become a blogger! Sharon has a calendar clash, and reluctantly agrees that even she can’t be in two places at once. We had planned to meet Dr Neil Kennedy for a guided tour of the One Stop Centre for victims of abuse, supported by SI Kenilworth in the past through FOSCiM. Neil is justifiably very proud of it. However, Sharon has managed to arrange to link up with SI Blantyre for a business meeting at the same time! For some reason, she thought it preferable for her to go to the Soroptimist meeting, leaving me to visit the One Stop Centre. Neil and I escape from the mid-morning heat and step into the welcoming foyer. We are welcomed by Lucy, a very friendly and motherly nurse who is the first contact for the often distressed young abuse victims on arrival. As I am shown around,
