14/02/23 Pub Lunch
06/02/23 The Story behind Mums in Need
06/02/23 Business Meeting – New President-Elect
2022 Dec – Hilary’s Wise Words
Education; Education; Education – not a cry from a politician but from Soroptimists all over the world. Through our commitment to educate, empower and enable women and girls, we recognise that without proper education we will never address the gender balance and without that we will never achieve peace and development. The UN states that educating women and girls throughout their life will produce better health outcomes, fuel economic growth and ensure peaceful and stable societies. This involves a recognition that access to STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) are essential and without this there is no way we will achieve SDG’s 4 and 5 by 2030. Listening to the talks at the SIGBI conference in Belfast in October reinforced the importance of this focus. Leigh Ellwood Brown, SI Director of Advocacy, stressed that women at the present rate of progress would not achieve