On New Year’s Eve 2020 President Jenny reflects on the challenges and unique opportunities presented to us by Covid-19, and looks forward to 2021 and the final few months of her Presidency…She also shares some fabulously exciting personal news of her own… Club President’s New Year Message – Watch the video
In the words of Kermit the Frog, “it’s not easy being green” (ask Alyson!) especially at what some might say, is the most commercialised time of the year. But you don’t have to be a Grinch and opt-out or miss out, just make some clever swaps and changes to cut your carbon footprint without stinting on the magic of a green Christmas…
To mark Day 1 of the 16 Days of Activism when we Orange The World, our Domestic Abuse lead Pauline, reflects on the heavy price paid in violent abuse cases – not only by the victims but also by witnesses who may end up in life changing witness protection…
To wrap or not to wrap? Here’s the tale of one woman’s crusade to buy her 5-a-Day plastic-free. Member Alyson Green takes up the challenge – how did she fare?
SI Lichfield & District Membership Officer Louie Clegg is a passionate advocate for Soroptimism and is always on the lookout for opportunities to promote our Club to potential new members. She’s absolutely certain that membership is the heart of our club here at SI Lichfield & District…but why is that? Over to Louie…
Today is World Tsunami Awareness Day. According to the UN by the year 2030, an estimated 50 per cent of the world’s population will live in coastal areas exposed to flooding, storms and tsunamis. For this World Tsunami Awareness Day, Club President Jenny McLelland reflects on her personal and very close up experiences of the 2004 tsunami in Thailand.
Every 45 minutes someone dies of breast cancer in the UK. Stop and think about that for a moment – it’s staggering. October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and at SI Lichfield & District we’ve been thinking hard about a disease that causes over 12,000 deaths a year of women (and men) we love…and listening to survivors’ stories from our own club members…
What is World Teachers’ Day 2020? Well, it celebrates great teachers worldwide. It shines a light on their massive contribution and achievements despite over-extended education systems and limited resources. They are key if we are to have any chance of achieving the UN’s SDG 4 Education – Leaving no-one behind.
Member of our Planet Sub Group Karen Whitworth has been investigating sustainable fashion – the future of fashion and its environmental impacts. She writes…I am currently undertaking a Future Learn online course entitled “Fashion’s Future and the SDGs” (United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals) as I am interested to build on my knowledge of the environmental impacts of the various processes involved in clothing production and what the fashion industry is doing to reduce, or eradicate them. A short assignment was part of my recent learning and I thought other Soroptimists may be interested in what I have found.
Being an organisation for empowering women I thought this was right up our street an International day in the Calendar for women … Women’s Health & Fitness Day – 30th September 2020. So looking to do a little research to promote this day I found myself a little disappointed, most links pointed in the direction of US based sites, and those that did link to the U.K. were linked to magazine subscriptions or pregnancy related. Perhaps that says something about internet algorithms and how they see my persona, even NHS links were very restricted to diet or again pregnancy, with a few to cancer.
