{"id":4192,"date":"2017-06-01T12:48:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T11:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/?p=4192"},"modified":"2017-06-01T13:14:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T12:14:11","slug":"whysoroptimist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2017\/whysoroptimist\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Soroptimist? Membership Month 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/130-SISTAWhySoroptimist2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4195 size-medium\" src=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/130-SISTAWhySoroptimist2017-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"130-SISTAWhySoroptimist2017\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/130-SISTAWhySoroptimist2017-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/130-SISTAWhySoroptimist2017-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/130-SISTAWhySoroptimist2017.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>At our May meeting about reducing our carbon footprint <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/carbon\/\">www.sigbi.org\/st-albans\/carbon\/ <\/a>Members donned their &#8220;Ask me why I&#8217;m a Soroptimist&#8221; T Shirts as part of the Soroptimist International Great Britain and Ireland (SIGBI) #WhySoroptimist ? campaign.\u00a0(pictured her l to r are Denise Powell, Jane Slatter, Sally Bear with Janet Tansley, Helen Byrne, Ameeta Sabharwal and Pamela Rochford).<\/p>\n<p>Answers to the &#8220;Why Soroptimist?&#8221; question are many and varied &#8211; we all want to make a difference to the lives of women and girls and we all get a lot of support from the friendships we have developed with one another. With project evenings like the one this May on the environment and last year on giving birth in prisions, we are proud that as Soroptimists we are not afraid to tackle difficult and unpopular issues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/26-StAlbansWhySoroptimistWeb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3013 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/26-StAlbansWhySoroptimistWeb-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"26-StAlbansWhySoroptimistWeb\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/26-StAlbansWhySoroptimistWeb-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/26-StAlbansWhySoroptimistWeb.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The second picture is from Membership Month in 2016 &#8211; spot the difference!! we haven&#8217;t aged a bit have we?! (l to r Jane Slatter, Janet Tansley, Denise Powell, Pamela Rochford, Liz Tillett, Jennie Redford and Janet Audley-Charles). This photo was joint winner of the SIGBI WhySoroptimist? best photo award.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/MM-Infographic-version-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3976\" src=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/MM-Infographic-version-1-1024x512.png\" alt=\"MM-Infographic-version-1\" width=\"650\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/MM-Infographic-version-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/MM-Infographic-version-1-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/MM-Infographic-version-1-768x384.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At our May meeting about reducing our carbon footprint www.sigbi.org\/st-albans\/carbon\/ Members donned their &#8220;Ask me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[252,251,12,60,11,206,13,111,99],"class_list":["post-4192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","tag-whysoroptimist","tag-membership-month","tag-soroptimist","tag-soroptimist-international","tag-st-albans","tag-st-albans-and-district","tag-women","tag-womens-group","tag-womens-organisation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why Soroptimist? 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