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Annette Davies of SI Medway and Maidstone and Christine Cole of SI Chaguanas from Trinidad and Tobago met at the London Conference in November.
Annette Davies of SI Medway and Maidstone and Christine Cole of SI Chaguanas from Trinidad and Tobago met at the London Conference in November.
Medway and Maidstone Soroptimists have been taking part in the Blythswood Shoebox Appeal for more than 20 years.
Byron Primary School held a Christmas Fair at the school on 30 November. There were lots of different stalls and activities for the children to spend their money.
During the 16 Days of Action, a Soroptimist Christmas Tree was decorated at St Margaret’s Church, Rainham.
Six members plus a Soroptimister returned to the former landfill site at Tovil on Saturday 25 November.
Soroptimist International Medway and Maidstone meet each year to fill shoe boxes, beautifully wrapped in Christmas paper to give to people in Eastern Europe who face enormous difficulties through poverty, illness, disability etc but whose faces light up with joy when offered a Christmas present. The Soroptimist club assembled 92 Boxes of Love this year which will go out to Ukraine to those affected by the war. The boxes are filled with practical items like toiletries, stationery, warm hats, scarves, gloves and socks and topped up with a toy and sweets. Even the practical items, which we take for granted, are greeted with absolute delight. However, we are told by Blythswood Care, the charity which distributes the boxes, that the pleasure they get from the gift is not only from its contents but from the display of care and love that has gone into it.
4 members of SI Medway and Maidstone were in the Soroptimist Knitting Team taking part in a Sponsored knit on 16 October in aid of Blythswood Shoebox Appeal. The knitters were Sue Hunt, Carol McKeough, Stella Barnes and Jane Barnes. Family and friends sponsored each of the knitters and a total of £200 was raised. It is anticipated that more than £1000 will be raised will all knitters taking part. This money will be used to fund transport costs of sending the filled shoeboxes to Ukraine