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Meru Women’s Garden Project

Meru Women’s Garden Project

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Margaret Clark Advocacy APD & SI Middlesbrough#soroptimists are proud to be supporting @Childdotorg & Great Big Supper Club #TGBSCLUBMeru Garden Project https://t.co/ZuA6ODdE3S Over the next three years Soroptimist Clubs are supporting the Meru Women’s Garden Project (MWGP), a collaboration with Child.org, that will educate, empower and enable women and girls in Meru County, Kenya. The project provides sustainable gardening techniques and tools, enabling women to become mentors and pioneers of agricultural sustainability within the community. It will also educate girls on their rights, empowering them to stand up to damaging cultural practices like female genital mutilation (FGM). By providing economic opportunities to women and girls, MWGP will achieve long term change by strengthening entire communities; improving the lives and opportunities for children and generations to come. Meru District is in Tigania East with a population of 136,000. 90% live in rural areas with HIV/AIDs prevalent in the

Go Folic!

Go Folic!

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Together with SI Darlington, we are raising awareness of the Go Folic Campaign. http://www.gofolic.org.uk  http://www.shinecharity.org.uk Go Folic! is a national campaign started by the charity Shine in 2011, to help raise vital awareness among all women of childbearing age about the importance of taking folic acid BEFORE becoming pregnant. Doing this helps reduce the risk of serious birth defects of the brain and spine, called Neural Tube Defects, like spina bifida and anencephaly. For all women who are having sex, there is always a chance that they could get pregnant, even if they’re not trying to. Go Folic! calls on all women who might become pregnant to take 400mcg of folic acid each day, as recommended by the NHS. The more people who come on board with our campaign, the more chance future babies have of being born healthy. Folic Facts 50 400 28 9 Up to

Baby clothes handed over to Gill Curry to take to Sierra Leone‏

Baby clothes handed over to Gill Curry to take to Sierra Leone‏

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In Sierra Leone Mothers have been persuaded to attend a clinic to give birth to their babies instead of at home and following an urgent request Margaret Clark has handed over to Gill baby hats and clothes to forward to them. These are the only clothes the babies will have which will also protect them from mosquitos Kori Development Project http://kwdp.org/ Thankyou very much to all our knitters

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Flier of the Film Night 29 September 6 – 9pm Mima – Centre Square, Middlesbrough, TS1 2AZ Ticket: £10 Contact: cooperpageo21@aol.com or 0796 299 9001 Film Synopsis PK (Pee-Kay) is a comedy of ideas about a stranger, from galaxies away, in the city, who asks questions that no one has asked before. They are innocent, child-like questions, but they bring about catastrophic answers. People, who are set in their ways for generations, are forced to reappraise their world when they see it from PK’s innocent eyes. In the process, PK makes loyal friends and powerful foes; mends broken lives and angers the establishment. PK’s childlike curiosity transforms into a spiritual odyssey for him and millions of others. The film is an ambitious and uniquely original exploration of complex philosophies. It is also a simple and humane tale of love, laughter and letting go. Finally, it is

Prison Reform Trust Report Talk May 2016

Prison Reform Trust Report Talk May 2016

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Pauline Reed gave a talk on the Prison Reform Trust Report   [Excerpt from Soroptimist UK Programme Action Committee web-site] Soroptimists have called for a UK-wide drive to reform women’s justice. Too many women in the UK are still being sent to prison instead of receiving community sanctions and targeted support to address the causes of their offending, says a leading women’s voluntary organisation.The women’s prison population doubled between 1995 and 2010. Most women in prison serve short prison sentences for non-violent offences and many have themselves been victims of domestic violence and abuse. In 2011 the Soroptimist UK Programme Action Committee resolved to work with the Prison Reform Trust to reduce women’s imprisonment.Now a wealth of information gathered by 139 Soroptimists clubs across the UK has been distilled into a report that is intended to spur national and local governments into action. The report