{"id":142,"date":"2011-03-20T23:51:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T22:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soroptimist-gbi.org\/south-lancashire\/?p=142"},"modified":"2019-03-05T17:51:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T16:51:16","slug":"programme-action-education-and-fair-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/2011\/03\/20\/programme-action-education-and-fair-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Programme Action : Education and Fair Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-144\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2011\/03\/soroptimists-and-speaker-on-education.jpg\" alt=\"soroptimists and speaker on education\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-143\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2011\/03\/soroptimists-with-fair-trade-bunting.jpg\" alt=\"soroptimists with fair trade bunting\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" \/>Helen Owen,\u00a0Assistant Programme Director, was the guest speaker at the South Lancashire Region&#8217;s Spring Programme Action meeting. With responsibility for the <a title=\"link to sigbi education\" href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/category\/education\/\">Education<\/a> portfolio, she deals with a theme that is central to Soroptimist International&#8217;s work. Introduced by Eileen Griffiths, the region&#8217;s Programme Action Officer, Helen covered many facets of education in her presentation.<\/p>\n<p>Access to education is denied to millions of women and girls through their lack of literacy. Clubs&#8217; help at the local level &#8211; listening to children read, for example\u00a0&#8211; can do much to reinforce teaching and ensure a good grounding for later life. In the wider world, Soroptimists&#8217; support for charities such as <a title=\"link to plan uk campaign\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plan-uk.org\/action\/campaigns\/girlsreport\/\">Plan UK&#8217;s &#8220;Because I&#8217;m a Girl&#8221;<\/a> campaign and <a title=\"link to book aid international\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bookaid.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Book Aid International<\/a> contributes towards the aim of ensuring that women and girls enjoy equality and have access to education.<\/p>\n<p>Helen also explored the link between food and education. Organisations such as <a title=\"link to marys meals\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marysmeals.org.uk\/\">Mary&#8217;s Meals<\/a> combine\u00a0lunch with learning &#8211; for a hungry child cannot take full advantage of school.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations undertakes a vast amount of work in the educational field. The <a title=\"link to united nations girls education initiative\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ungei.org\/\">UN Girls&#8217; Education Initiative<\/a> is a partnership of organisations committed, for example, to narrowing the gender gap in primary and secondary education. Similarly <a title=\"link to soroptimists pakistan relief work\" href=\"http:\/\/soroptimist-gbi.org\/our-work\/current-si-and-sigbi-charities\/sigbiunicef-soroptimists-for-pakistan-appeal\/\">SIGBI and UNICEF<\/a> are in alliance to provide, in the short-term, aid and trauma management for the victims of the floods in Pakistan and, in the long-term, specific projects on education.<\/p>\n<p>A woman who cannot read for herself can only listen &#8211; her ability to make an informed choice, based on her own understanding, is restricted. An unschooled woman is likely to be trapped in a life defined by poverty and exploitation. Soroptimists believe that female education is society&#8217;s foundation for development and economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>In keeping with the theme of economic growth, the region then celebrated Fairtrade Fortnight &#8211; with bunting. Galvanised by Wendy Ross-Barker (SI Widnes) members each decorated a piece of Fairtrade cotton bunting. The pieces are going to the <a title=\"link to fairtrade foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fairtrade.org.uk\/\">Fairtrade Foundation<\/a> as part of the attempt to break the world record for the longest continual piece of bunting. The Foundation hopes this will publicise Fairtrade cotton\u00a0and put pressure on decision-makers to make trade fairer for cotton farmers in West Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helen Owen,\u00a0Assistant Programme Director, was the guest speaker at the South Lancashire Region&#8217;s Spring Programme&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Programme Action : Education and Fair Trade | News | Blog | Events | SI South Lancashire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI South Lancashire : Blog &amp; News : Programme Action : Education and Fair Trade : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI South Lancashire . 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