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We are committed to a world where women and girls together achieve their individual and collective potential, realise their aspirations and have an equal voice in creating strong and peaceful communities worldwide.<\/h4>\n

We do this through raising awareness of women’s issues, to advocate and taking action to enable, empower and ensure women and girls are educated and have equal rights. this work includes\u00a0 working in our communities to make the lives of women and girls better, to raise awareness of women’s issues such as domestic violence, female genital mutilation, championing against period poverty and ensuring equality with men and boys for education in schools and colleges, as well as the work place.<\/p>\n

As a club, we are part of a bigger world wide community of soroptimists. We champion for rights through the united nations. we report our activities to Soroptimist International of Great Britain & Ireland, where all our work is collated. Some projects that we do run internationally, currently our International President’s charity is educating, empowering and enabling women to manage water supply which is essential for life\u00a0https:\/\/www.soroptimistinternational.org\/campaigns\/women-water-and-leadership-2017-2019\/<\/a> , to date \u00a3260k has been raised of the \u00a3350k target. We also have national projects such as our Kenyan, Women’s Garden Project whom we have supported through fundraising for last 3 years https:\/\/meruwomen.org\/<\/a>\u00a0 – for this community we have transformed the lives of women and girls by making them self sufficient, gaining respect and enabling education. In the autumn we will be starting a new project in Nepal, where we will fund a refuge to support trafficked children until they can return home safely. The project enables a group of vulnerable girls from Tipling, to complete their secondary school education up to grades 11 and 12.<\/p>\n

Locally we provide services as well as raise monies for charities locally, nationally and internationally.<\/p>\n

We are really excited about a new pop-up caf\u00e9 that we provide once a month to the older people on a ward E at Neath Port Talbot Hospital. We work in partnership with the ward staff. The event is popular with patients really looking forward to the next one.<\/p>\n

Monthly we make a collection for our local food bank. In the last year, as a group we made a decision to supply women’s hygiene products to support help impact on Period Poverty\u00a0https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-politics-43513354\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Every year in May or June, we collect tools, sewing machines, wools and needles with one of our partners: Tools for Self Reliance\u00a0 (TFSR) Cymru. <\/em>We have undertaken this project for many years and have made a difference to people in Zanzania.\u00a0TFSR Cymru improves the lives of African artisans & families by providing them with quality refurbished recycled hand tools & training. From the tools etc that we collect, some will be shipped out to Africa, whilst others are sold to raise monies for the shipping container.<\/p>\n

Annually on the 25th November, the UN 16 days of Activism starts. We support and raise awareness of domestic violence and ask individuals to make a pledge to support the initiative at the stall that we place in the foyer at Aberavon Beach Hotel.\u00a0http:\/\/www.unwomen.org\/en\/what-we-do\/ending-violence-against-women\/take-action\/16-days-of-activism<\/a><\/p>\n

We hold many regular events. these include:<\/p>\n