SI Stafford members have donated 450 bras to Kids Club Kampala, a charity supporting over 300,000 people in Kampala, Uganda. Not wearing a bra can lead to increased risks of sexual harassment and rape. These bras will go to women and girls throughout 12 slum communities across Kampala.

Members of Stafford Soroptimists joined a vigil held in the Market Square in Stafford, to show our solidarity with Ukraine in its dark times. As well as a moving address from John Marshall, with a prayer was followed by a heartfelt plea for ongoing help, and thanks for all the UK's support from a Ukrainian lady who has lived in Stone for 5 years. Many were moved to tears and donations of good and money were collected, which will go via the White Eagle Polish Club in Stafford straight to refugees in Poland.

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Between the two afternoon sessions of the Soroptimist conference, some members of the club and supporters got together to plant trees and hedging. It's to commemorate a century of our organisation. Our partner and the recipient of our legacy planting is Stafford Riverway Link, a Community Interest Company, which is gradually reinstating the canal link between the Staffs & Worcester Canal and the centre of the town of Stafford. It will be a place for community, for exercise, and wellbeing. #soroptimistcentenary #doingourbit #environmentalist #SoroptimistAtWork #ChangingTheWorldOneWomanAtATime

Tuesday 30th June 2020 should have seen us meeting for a club meal, but that wasn't to be, so we decided to eat together anyway, but at a distance.  If we were going to do that we might as well do something else positive. So our meal became a fundraiser for the SIGBI Project - Empowering Girls in Nepal, in partnership with ChoraChori.  The funds raised by the 12 members who ate online (along with some family members too) and through other member's donations will assist to provide security, rehabilitation, education and training for vulnerable girls in Nepal.  We had a lovely evening, socialising together after such a long time apart and hopefully we'll be able to help others too - it's a win, win situation. Women inspiring action, transforming lives.

We are supporting the following good causes, responding to the hardships caused by the lockdown to many in our communities, both here locally and overseas. Each of them have received £500 from our fundraising activities. Staffordshire Women's Aid Women in vulnerable situations are at increased risk of domestic abuse under lockdown. We have supported Staffordshire Women's Aid for many years, and we are keenly aware of the heightened need for their services at the moment. For more information on our work in helping reduce the incidence of violence against women, visit Our Projects. Rising Brook Food Bank Food banks too are essential, with so many people and families suffering the loss of income from lockdown. Rising Brook Food Bank is run by the local Baptist church, based on the Wolverhampton Road, serving the local community. DFN UK DFN workers providing Covid 19 testing in India DFN