Would like to invite you to a special speaker event we are having on Monday 19th September 2016 at 7:30pm
at St Andrews Church, Newmarket Street, Skipton.
Our guest speaker is Dr Helen Pankhurst.
Dr. Helen, great-granddaughter of Suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst, is CARE International UK’s Senior Advisor on Gender Equality and figurehead for CARE’s Walk in Her Shoes Campaign. Helen is also a Senior Technical Advisor for the Water Team of CARE USA with a remit of support to CARE’s water sector work internationally. Helen was born in Ethiopia and worked there for three years as the Country Representative for WaterAid. She also worked as Head of International Programmes for five years at Womankind Worldwide and for five years as the Regional Manager for the Horn of Africa at the Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development (ACORD). Dr Helen’s academic background has been varied, having started in a French school, then an international one, and having been to British and American Universities. She has a social science PhD (Economics, Anthropology, Sociology and Politics).”
We would love for you to attend our meeting in September, and we would appreciate you letting us know if you would like to come along, listen to an interesting speaker and find out more about our organisation, by Monday 5th September – email: suzan.mendoza@gmail.com
Soroptimist International is an international women’s organisation. Since our formation in 1921 we have been committed to a world where women and girls get together and achieve their individual and collective potential, realise aspirations and have an equal voice in creating strong, peaceful communities worldwide. if you would like to find out more about our organisation ,please look at our website – www.sigbi.org.