July 17th we have a dinner meeting with a difference We will meet at Riverside House and enjoy a picnic. If you want t join us please contact me (Mary Tooley) on 07886469701
Weds 23rd you are welcome to join us for Coffeee & Cake at the Crabmill, Swinford Rd Stourbridge. We meet at 11am and would love to see you there. Do contact me (so we can make sure there is enough cake!) 07886469701
July 15th SIGBI Day of Action
SIGBI, which has consultative status at the UN, has timed its Annual Day of Action to coincide with the UN’s International Day of Hope as it aims to embed Gender Impact Assessments as a statutory requirement
Jane Clarke MBE is the most talented Soroptimist, she has created 26 Hope bags which have been filled by members (1 for every member in our club). They will be welcomed by places we support, including a Women’s Refuge and a Baby Bank.
Wednesday 30 July
To participate in our E Book Club, just to say hello or join in our book discussion you will be welcome, just contact me (Mary Tooley) on 07886469701 and I will make sure you get the Zoom details. The chosen book this month is There are Rivers In The Sky by Elif Shafak.
This review is taken from Amazon: In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia, there lies hidden in the sand fragments of a long-forgotten poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh.
In Victorian London, an extraordinary child is born at the edge of the dirt-black Thames. When his brilliant memory earns him a spot as an apprentice at a printing press, the world opens up far beyond the slums and across the seas.
In 2014 Turkey, Narin, a Yazidi girl living by the River Tigris, waits to be baptised. The ceremony is cruelly interrupted, and soon she and her grandmother must journey across war-torn lands in the hope of reaching the sacred valley of their people.
In 2018 London, broken-hearted Zaleekhah, a hydrologist, moves to a houseboat on the Thames to escape the wreckage of her marriage – until an unexpected connection to her homeland changes everything
