May is Membership Month in the Soroptimist Calendar and Medway and Maidstone Soroptimists have in recent months welcomed new members to the club.
Past and present members of SI Medway and Maidstone celebrated at a Coffee Morning on 18 May with Mary talking to us about her professional and Soroptimist career.
Carol Infanti has organised the next Club Zoom Coffee Morning with Dr Mary Buchanan on Tuesday 18 May 11am- 12pm. Mary is an honorary member of SI Medway and Maidstone and has been a Soroptimist since 1967 when she joined SI Maidstone. She has held leadership roles at local, national and international level. In 1991 she was Chairman of the Soroptimist International Convention We were delighted that Mary was selected to be one of the 100 women whose life and career are being celebrated by SIGBI to mark 100 years of Soroptimist International. #Whoisshe https://sigbi.org/soroptimistcentenary2021/files/13.-Dr-Mary-Buchanan-1-1-1.pdf Mary has kindly agreed to talk about her work and career including her role as President of EUROPA DONNA, setting up a Well Woman Clinic, an Adolescent Clinic and Cervical Screening Clinic and much more.
During the month of April, Dr Mary Buchanan is being showcased with 11 other Soroptimists, both past and present on the SIGBI Centenary website as part of the #WhoIsShe’.
UN Commission on Status of Women – CSW65 – an overview Well, what a week it has been, full on does not cover it. I have not been to CSW before, but it was on my list to do.
A Medway and Maidstone Soroptimist joined Medway Scrubbers at the start of the first lockdown to offer her sewing skills to help the NHS.
At our January club meeting, one of our members spoke about funding challenges being faced by schools running breakfast clubs during the pandemic, prompted by an article she had read in The Guardian.
SI Medway and Maidstone had a speaker from Mary’s Meals at our January Zoom Club meeting – Annette Davies who is the Kent Ambassador for Mary’s Meals.
Medway and Maidstone Soroptimists Supporting ‘Wear Your Pearls Day’ January 20th was an important date as it marked the inauguration of a new President in the USA and Kamala Harris as their first female Vice President and first woman of colour.
Education is a human right, a public good and a public responsibility. The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 24 January as International Day of Education, in celebration of the role of education for peace and development.
