{"id":5962,"date":"2025-03-11T15:03:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T14:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/manchester\/?p=5962"},"modified":"2025-04-14T11:36:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T10:36:30","slug":"international-womens-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/manchester\/2025\/03\/11\/international-womens-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/manchester\/files\/2025\/03\/IWD-graphic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5994 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/manchester\/files\/2025\/03\/IWD-graphic-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/manchester\/files\/2025\/03\/IWD-graphic-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/manchester\/files\/2025\/03\/IWD-graphic-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/manchester\/files\/2025\/03\/IWD-graphic.png 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We marked the day in three ways &#8211; donating to four of the charities we support, at our club meeting earlier in the week and attending the Regional Programme Action Meeting on the day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">We donated to\u00a0 two <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/manchester\/local-projects-new\/\">local<\/a> and two <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/manchester\/international-projects-new\/\">international<\/a> charities &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/womeninprison.org.uk\">WomenMatta<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/therivemanchester.org.uk\">The River Manchester<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/act4africa.org\">Act4Africa<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/newhopeindia.org\">New Hope Rural Trust<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/manchester\/files\/2025\/03\/River.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6006 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/manchester\/files\/2025\/03\/River-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/manchester\/files\/2025\/03\/River-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/manchester\/files\/2025\/03\/River.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">At our club meeting members spoke about inspirational women &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Esther Ghey<\/strong> &#8211; mother of murdered teenager Brianna, she now campaigns for social media reform, is the founder of Peace and Mind UK and has written a book, &#8216;Under a Pink Sky&#8217;.\u00a0<em>Hilary.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Gisele Pelicot<\/strong> who faced her husband and multiple rapists in court, charting a new course for victims of sexual abuse.<em> Fiona.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Clara Zetkin<\/strong>, a German Marxist theorist, activist and advocate for women&#8217;s rights, her efforts led to the first International Women&#8217;s Day being celebrated in 1911. <em>Sue U.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Melanie Reid<\/strong>, a journalist, became tetraplegic following a riding accident. She wrote a weekly column &#8211; &#8216;Spinal Column&#8217; &#8211; for The Times and a memoir &#8211; &#8216;The World I Fell Out Of&#8217;. She has received a number of awards, including an MBE. <em>Carole.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Several of our members attended the <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/2025\/03\/09\/lights-camera-action-in-five-minutes\/\">Regional Programme Action meeting<\/a> at which each club in the South Lancashire region gave a short presentation on one of their projects &#8211; President Elect Fiona spoke about the work we do for <a href=\"http:\/\/earlyessentials.org.uk\">Early Essentials<\/a>, a charity that provides Moses baskets and starter packs for vulnerable mothers and babies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We marked the day in three ways &#8211; donating to four of the charities we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>International Women&#039;s Day | News | Blog | Events | SI Manchester<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Manchester : Blog &amp; News : International Women&#039;s Day : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Manchester . 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