{"id":5025,"date":"2022-09-23T16:49:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T15:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/thames-valley\/?p=5025"},"modified":"2026-02-17T15:56:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:56:03","slug":"memorial-fruit-orchard-for-johanna-raffan-update-august-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/thames-valley\/2022\/09\/23\/memorial-fruit-orchard-for-johanna-raffan-update-august-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Fruit Orchard for Johanna Raffan &#8211; Update August 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johanna Raffan celebrating her appointment as President of Soroptimist International with members of her club Soroptimist International Thames Valley.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/thames-valley\/files\/2021\/06\/IMG_3737-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4811\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/thames-valley\/files\/2021\/06\/IMG_3737-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/thames-valley\/files\/2021\/06\/IMG_3737-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/thames-valley\/files\/2021\/06\/IMG_3737-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSoroptimists were saddened by the sudden death of Johanna Raffan, founder member of SI Thames Valley club and President of Soroptimist International of Great Britain and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>She was also the first Chair of Kori Development Project Ltd. This led to the proposal to plant a Memorial Orchard in Kori District and villagers there have kindly donated the land for this project.<\/p>\n<p>Soroptimists everywhere have been celebrating their 100 year anniversary by planting trees and many also kindly donated money towards creating this Orchard, for which we are very grateful.<\/p>\n<p>The land has been cleared by local people and many fruit trees planted \u2013 mangoes, sugar plums, guava, avocados and pineapples.<\/p>\n<p>Would you like to donate to the Memorial Orchard or perhaps towards a bursary for one of the pupils at the Bob Simson Technical School?\u00a0 We\u2019d love to hear from you \u2013 just go to the website\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/koridp.org\/\">https:\/\/koridp.org\/<\/a> and the contact page where you will find all the details, or you can also email SI Thames Valley [sitvclub@gmail.co].<\/p>\n<p>The above is an extract from the\u00a0 Kori Newsletter, the full document is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/thames-valley\/files\/2022\/09\/Latest-news-from-the-Kori-Development-Project-in-Sierra-Leone-AUG-2022.pdf\">Latest news from the Kori Development Project in Sierra Leone AUG 2022<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johanna Raffan celebrating her appointment as President of Soroptimist International with members of her club&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":567,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-archive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Memorial Fruit Orchard for Johanna Raffan - Update August 2022 | News | Blog | Events | SI Thames Valley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Thames Valley : Blog &amp; News : Memorial Fruit Orchard for Johanna Raffan - Update August 2022 : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Thames Valley . 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