{"id":4607,"date":"2020-07-03T17:14:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T16:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/richmond-and-dales\/?p=4607"},"modified":"2020-07-03T17:14:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T16:14:39","slug":"letters-from-zimbabwe-and-rishi-sunak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/richmond-and-dales\/2020\/07\/03\/letters-from-zimbabwe-and-rishi-sunak\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters from Zimbabwe and Rishi Sunak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have received letters of thanks in response to our latest donation to our sister club in Harare, Zimbabwe <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harare\/\">https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harare\/<\/a>, and also from our Rishi Sunak MP, our local MP and Chancellor of the Exchequer. The President of Harare club said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Dear SI Richmond and Dales,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Thank you very much for your unwavering support. We are truly honoured and humbled by the generous support you have given to Chikupo and the other projects we support.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">We will most certainly distribute the allocated funds to Chikupo as requested and we will distribute the remaining funds between the TBAs and SODA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">I take this opportunity to thank SI Richmond and Dales for your kind support.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">In friendship<br \/>\nTsitsi Machingauta<\/p>\n<p>TBAs are the Zimbabwean Traditional Birthing Attendants, the local women to assist at child delivery, as there are no qualified midwives.\u00a0 We and Harare Club have contributed to their training and provided supplies to help them in their work. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 SODA is a home for destitute elderly people which is supported by the Harare club, providing a home for those without family to care for them.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Sunak wrote to member Sandy Baxter, who has been raising money for Zimbabwe from her bees&#8217; honey and from Face Mask making.\u00a0 He says &#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">I was most impressed to learn recently of your fund raising activities on behalf of the Soroptimist charities in Zimbabwe with funds generated through your enthusiasm for beekeeping and the making of face masks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">It is very laudable that you and fellow members of Soroptimist International Richmond and Dales have kept in mind the plight of others, particularly children, in the rest of the world when we are pre-occupied with major issues linked to the Covid 19 pandemic in the UK.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Congratulations on your efforts. Please pass on my thanks to club members who also contributed to the fundraising.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Kind regards,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Rishi Sunak<br \/>\nMember of Parliament<br \/>\nRIchmond (Yorks)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4608\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4608\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/richmond-and-dales\/files\/2020\/07\/Letter-to-Sandy-from-Rishi-Sunak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4608\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/richmond-and-dales\/files\/2020\/07\/Letter-to-Sandy-from-Rishi-Sunak-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/richmond-and-dales\/files\/2020\/07\/Letter-to-Sandy-from-Rishi-Sunak-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/richmond-and-dales\/files\/2020\/07\/Letter-to-Sandy-from-Rishi-Sunak.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Letter to Sandy Baxter from Chancellor Rishi Sunak MP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have received letters of thanks in response to our latest donation to our sister&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30,33,14,29,28,32,31,15],"class_list":["post-4607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news","tag-chancellor","tag-chikupo","tag-harare","tag-mp","tag-rishi-sunak","tag-soda","tag-tba","tag-zimbabwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Letters from Zimbabwe and Rishi Sunak | News | Blog | Events | SI Richmond and Dales<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Richmond and Dales : Blog &amp; News : Letters from Zimbabwe and Rishi Sunak : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Richmond and Dales . 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