For 20 years the Medway & Maidstone Soroptimist club, in partnership with SI club of Accra, Ghana has been helping men and women in Ghana get employment to support their families.
Four Medway and Maidstone Soroptimists volunteered for 193 hours at the Blythswood London and South East England Shoebox Collection Point in Gillingham.
Medway and Maidstone Soroptimists are taking part in the Christmas tree Festival at St Margaret’s Church, Rainham.
Three members of Medway and Maidstone Soroptimists volunteered on behalf of Missing People UK at the G4 Christmas concert on 16th December at Rochester Cathedral. Acting as ushers, showing guests to their seats on arrival as well as giving out event programmes. We helped to collect donations at the end of the night, standing with a bucket as guests leave. It was a fun evening with everyone getting in the Christmas mood. Missing People is an independent charity funded by donations. It is the only lifeline for missing people and their families in the UK. It provides specialist support to people who are missing or at risk of missing, and the families and friends left behind. Someone is reported missing every 90 seconds in the UK. That means life is lonely, scary and uncertain for 170,000 families every year. A message from Missing People, ‘Thank
In October, I told the Byron children in the UNICEF Rights-Respecting Schools Steering Group about the Blythswood Christmas Shoebox Appeal that as Soroptimists, we support each year.
At our November meeting, as part of our commitment to the 16 Days of Action, our speakers were Pat Jackson and Sarah Cornell talking about SATEDA’s Youth Work in Swale.
We met Liz Owsley at the Regional AGM in September as she had recently become an Associate member.
In Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe, Mary’s Meals serves children steaming mugs of vitamin-enriched porridge, helping them to learn and grow.
This month, Rochester’s smallest art gallery, the Medway Art Box, proudly hosts a new exhibition presented by the 111 Years Forward Project.
Members of SI Medway and Maidstone have been busy preparing for this year’s Christmas Shoebox Appeal.
