Yvonne Simpson, President of Soroptimist International (SI), dropped in on members of SI Warrington as they got together to make dresses.
The club held the sewing day to make clothes for ‘Dress A Girl Around The World’. SI Warrington’s newest member, Julia Blair, had come up with the idea – and club members took to it with enthusiasm.
They made patterns and cut the fabric for 25 dresses in four different sizes; then they got busy pinning, sewing, hemming … and chatting.
On hand to help out was Margaret Emsley, Federation President of SI Great Britain & Ireland – a member of SI Ashton under Lyne.
From Hokitika, New Zealand, Yvonne was on her way to the airport to fly to Budapest (Hungary) to speak about the post-earthquake situation in Nepal. Soroptimist International truly is a global organisation.
One SI Warrington member was particularly pleased to welcome International President Yvonne: Margaret Carr is a fellow kiwi (as well as being South Lancashire Region’s Communications Officer).
