{"id":779,"date":"2016-11-17T15:37:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T14:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/manchester\/?p=779"},"modified":"2016-11-17T15:37:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T14:37:33","slug":"heal-speaker-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/manchester\/2016\/11\/17\/heal-speaker-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"HEAL Speaker Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/manchester\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_0675.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-780 alignleft\" src=\"\/manchester\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_0675-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0675\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/manchester\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_0675-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/manchester\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_0675.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>President Elect Rose and members were pleased to welcome guests from the Act4Africa team to\u00a0our November Speaker meeting at the Pinewood Hotel. We enjoyed a meal with CEO Martin\u00a0Smedley and Hilary Yeates, Project Manager, followed by an excellent presentation to bring us up\u00a0to date with the HEAL Malawi project, which we have undertaken to mark SI Manchester&#8217;s 90th\u00a0year.<\/p>\n<p>Hilary told us about Bernard Makupete, their Malawi Team Manager, and how he is getting on with\u00a0the project. The aim is to train 20 women as Community Mentors and for each of them to form a\u00a0group of around 25 young women. This is being done in two groups of 10 and the first group has\u00a0received their training and formed their own mentoring and savings groups, with a current average\u00a0of 15 young women in each. At this early stage these figures compare favourably with the charity&#8217;s\u00a0experience of their HEAL project in Uganda. So far six of these groups have opened bank\u00a0accounts for their savings and received seed funding from the charity.<\/p>\n<p>Hilary also told us the stories of two very different young women who are benefiting from the\u00a0project. One has never been able to speak out about how she feels and is gaining confidence from\u00a0the group, and the other is a budding entrepreneur with lots of business ideas. We appreciate\u00a0hearing these individual stories of the young women we are aiming to help.<\/p>\n<p>The photograph shows Hilary Yeates, our own Barbara Blaber(Finance Administrator Act4Africa),\u00a0President Elect Rose and Martin Smedley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Elect Rose and members were pleased to welcome guests from the Act4Africa team to\u00a0our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":272,"featured_media":780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49,88,50,24],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","tag-act4africa","tag-charity","tag-heal","tag-speaker"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>HEAL Speaker Meeting | News | Blog | Events | SI Manchester<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Manchester : Blog &amp; News : HEAL Speaker Meeting : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Manchester . 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