President Alison attended SI Medway and Maidstone’s AGM Dinner on 11 April at the Holiday Inn at Rochester.
A Silent Auction was held at the March Regional Meeting. This was in aid of President Alison’s chosen charity, Action around Bethlehem Children with Disability (ABCD). ABCD was set up 35 years ago. It works to improve the lives of children with disabilities across Palestine regardless of faith race or gender. Jane Barnes had produced an Auction catalogue, with information on the 16 lots donated by the clubs. The catalogue was circulated in advance with descriptions and reserve price for each lot. The goal was to raise monies to fund a Speech and Language Therapist for a year and then apply for match funding. The total raised by the Auction was £1240.00. The star buy was the double quilt – many thanks to Jenni Mogridge (SI Bromley) for donating this item which she had made herself – and for being such an able auctioneer. The
During our March Regional meeting one of our speakers Val Jourdon brought along some Holy Land cake to taste.
The speakers at our March Regional meeting were from the charity Action Around Bethlehem Children with Disabilities (ABCD). This is a charity which President Alison has been associated with for many years. It was started 35 years ago by Val Jourdan, a paediatric physiotherapist. She had undertaken a placement in Bethlehem with the Leonard Cheshire Foundation. There is a high incidence of disability with a high rate of complications around birth and early years cases. There is little use of birth control and marriages within isolated rural communities. This leads to a large number of genetic disorders. There is still a stigma attached to any form of disability, even within families with disabled children. There is a tendency to hide them away, so without some intervention, Val explained that these children live isolated and unproductive lives. ABCD, is a charity based in the UK. It
The latest edition of our Regional Newsletter SEE News was published this week by our editor Patricia Painting. Do have a read to find out more about what has been happening across the South East Region including: – Book Awards for girls completing The Girls Network programme How clubs are preparing for International Women’s Day with theme ‘Inspire Inclusion’ SI Whitstable leading on ‘Plastic Free Whitstable’ campaign Welcome to our new members and Important dates for the diary over the coming months….. 8 March – IWD Dance with ‘Project F’ in Whitstable 9 March – SI Lewes – a celebration of women through film 16 March – Silent Auction at Region 13 April – SISEE Study Day at Howfield Manor Theme: County Lines
President Alison visited with members of her own club SI Bromley The Hub and The Library of Things in the Glades, Bromley, on 25 February. They were also joined by Pat Dale from Croydon Club. They all wore orange to promote the campaign to End Violence against Women and distributed the new STOP Violence against Women cards .
Members and friends of SI Bromley joined a scratch choir carol singing (and even dancing!) in The Glades Shopping Centre. This was to raise awareness of, and funds for, the Bromley Homeless.
It is with great pleasure to announce the 50th edition of our Regional Newsletter SEE News came out this month.
On the first day of the ’16 Days of Action’ (25 November) President Alison participated in the Silent March in Canterbury. This is to highlight the need to eliminate violence against women.
