{"id":7076,"date":"2025-11-23T10:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/?p=7076"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:09:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:09:59","slug":"how-much-was-raised-at-carols-soup-kitchen-for-si-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/2025\/11\/23\/how-much-was-raised-at-carols-soup-kitchen-for-si-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"How much was raised at Carol\u2019s Soup Kitchen For SI Foundation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year Medway and Maidstone member, Carol McKeough hosts a soup kitchen at her home as a fundraiser. <!--more-->As part of our commitment to the 16 Days of Activism we wanted to raise monies for the SI Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>SI Foundation provides funding for projects that aim to Educate, Empower and Enable the lives of women and girls around the world.\u00a0Projects and programmes will be funded in countries to improve the lives of all women and girls. Through the money raised, the projects funded, will focus on the following three Soroptimist International Objectives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The advancement of education<\/li>\n<li>The relief and\/or prevention of poverty<\/li>\n<li>The advancement of human rights, peace, equality and diversity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/files\/2026\/01\/SI-MM-Carols-Soup-Kitchen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7077 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/files\/2026\/01\/SI-MM-Carols-Soup-Kitchen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/files\/2026\/01\/SI-MM-Carols-Soup-Kitchen.jpg 960w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/files\/2026\/01\/SI-MM-Carols-Soup-Kitchen-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On 22 November, 12 members were at Carol\u2019s Soup kitchen many wearing something orange. We had a great time enjoying a selection of\u00a0 homemade soups and bread followed by desserts all provided by members. Everyone made a financial contribution and \u00a3220 was raised, which will be donated to the SI Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year Medway and Maidstone member, Carol McKeough hosts a soup kitchen at her home&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":730,"featured_media":7077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[104,627,661,27,116,662,45,660,659,658,34],"class_list":["post-7076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","tag-16-days-of-activism","tag-advancement-of-education","tag-advancement-of-human-rights","tag-educate","tag-empower-and-enable","tag-equality-and-diversity","tag-peace","tag-relief-and-or-prevention-of-poverty","tag-si-foundation","tag-soup-kitchen","tag-women-and-girls"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How much was raised at Carol\u2019s Soup Kitchen For SI Foundation? | News | Blog | Events | SI Medway and Maidstone<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Medway and Maidstone : Blog &amp; News : How much was raised at Carol\u2019s Soup Kitchen For SI Foundation? : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Medway and Maidstone . 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