{"id":879,"date":"2016-11-16T11:16:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T11:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/torquay-and-district\/?p=879"},"modified":"2016-11-16T11:16:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T11:16:02","slug":"2016-making-worldwide-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/torquay-and-district\/2016\/11\/16\/2016-making-worldwide-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Making worldwide friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently received an email from Margareth Johansson who is President of SI Falkenberg in Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>She was visiting Torquay at the beginning of November and asked if members of the Torquay &amp; District SI would like to meet up with her.\u00a0 Emails were exchanged and arrangements made to meet her one afternoon at the Riviera Centre Torquay.\u00a0 She enjoys meeting with Soroptimists from other countries and was interested to hear what projects our club is working with.<\/p>\n<p>During the afternoon she talked about her club SI Falkenberg who are working on different projects, both in Sweden and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>They have for some years helped a female student (Asha) in India study IT. Asha has recently been to Sweden and attended one of their business meetings.\u00a0 A South African a girl (Geriann) has been supported with her school fees.<\/p>\n<p>They also support Sweden&#8217;s projects Solvatten.\u00a0 Solvatten is a combined water treatment and water heater system used in situations where water resources are scarce and prone to contamination.\u00a0 It enables children and their families living without safe water to improve their quality of life, the Solvatten solution brings lasting change.<\/p>\n<p>Gaynor and Barbara very kindly took her to Rosegarth and gave her a tour of the house and gardens.<\/p>\n<p>Margareth has written with thanks for meeting her that afternoon, and hopes to come to Torquay again, if any of us would like to visit the west coast of Sweden we have her contact details.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/torquay-and-district\/files\/2016\/11\/Gaynor-Barbara.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-880\" src=\"\/torquay-and-district\/files\/2016\/11\/Gaynor-Barbara-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Gaynor &amp; Barbara\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/torquay-and-district\/files\/2016\/11\/Gaynor-Barbara-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/torquay-and-district\/files\/2016\/11\/Gaynor-Barbara.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/torquay-and-district\/files\/2016\/11\/Margareth-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-881\" src=\"\/torquay-and-district\/files\/2016\/11\/Margareth-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Margareth 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/torquay-and-district\/files\/2016\/11\/Margareth-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/torquay-and-district\/files\/2016\/11\/Margareth-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently received an email from Margareth Johansson who is President of SI Falkenberg in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2016 Making worldwide friends | News | Blog | Events | SI Torquay and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Torquay and District : Blog &amp; News : 2016 Making worldwide friends : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Torquay and District . 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