{"id":5510,"date":"2026-09-24T17:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sevenoaks\/?p=5510"},"modified":"2026-09-24T17:57:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:57:24","slug":"september-si-sevenoaks-club-meeting-overseas-occupational-therapist-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sevenoaks\/2026\/09\/24\/september-si-sevenoaks-club-meeting-overseas-occupational-therapist-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"September SI Sevenoaks Club Meeting &#8211; overseas occupational therapist talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>8 September 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Talk by Margaret Barnard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">An interesting talk was given by Margaret Barnard at our monthly meeting.\u00a0 Margaret volunteered as an overseas occupational therapist in the 1960s. She didn\u2019t know until the day where she was being sent but was pleased that she was being sent to Palestine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">For 9 months she worked with children, mainly from refugee camps, helping them walk, talk and play through music and exercise. Whilst there she travelled extensively to places which are unrecognisable now 60 years later.\u00a0 She also met Sir John Betjeman and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh who visited the area whilst she was there. One morning she was told to pack her bags as she was leaving, she had no time to say goodbye to her colleagues or the children. She was on the last plane out of Jordan and the six-day war broke out shortly after.\u00a0 She brought along some items of interest from that era to show us.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy Jordan<\/p>\n<p>Programme Action Officer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 September 2026 Talk by Margaret Barnard An interesting talk was given by Margaret Barnard&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>September SI Sevenoaks Club Meeting - overseas occupational therapist talk | News | Blog | Events | SI Sevenoaks<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Sevenoaks : Blog &amp; News : September SI Sevenoaks Club Meeting - overseas occupational therapist talk : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Sevenoaks . 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