SI Anaparima was charted on November 24th 2018 at the San Fernando City Hall Auditorium, Trinidad by SIGBI President Sue Williams.
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SI ANAPARIMA’S NEW EXECUTIVE FOR 2024-2025
SITT National Association congratulates the newly installed Executive of SI Anaparima for 2024/2025. Best wishes to all for an enjoyable and productive year.
Meet the newly installed Executive from left to right: –
(Back row)
Rachelle Toolsie – Executive Floor Member, Reynelle Mark – Organisational Development Officer, Karen Stewart- Leon – Executive Floor Member,
Susan Umraw – Roopnarinesingh – Secretary, Kelsi Diljohn Communications Officer, Priya Sookraj – Treasurer
(Front Row)
Lorraine Accosta – Website Administrator, Angel Nyal Kungiesingh Programme Action Officer/ President Elect, Anisa Roopchand- Joseph – President, Ahhailia Ramdass – Immediate Past President/ Membership Officer
Training Session for Soroptimist International Anaparima members
Sandra Dieffenthaller, Immediate Past President, SITT National Association and Terry Amarali-Rhambarat, Membership and Organizational Development Officer, SITT National Association jointly conducted a training session for the members of Soroptimist International Anaparima.
As mentioned by Sandra “We were impressed with the Sunday afternoon turnout of members and with the enthusiasm displayed.”
Soroptimist International Anaparima participated in Friendship Day 2024- “Casino Royale” hosted by Soroptimist International Newtown
They were assigned to play the Baccarat game.
Thank you for participating
SI Anaparima welcomes new members
During the month of April 2024, four new members were inducted to SI Anaparima Club.
Raise a glass as we welcome (left to right in the picture) Kavita Maharaj, Karen Stewart- Leon, Ishani Ramsaroop & Kelsi Diljohn with our current President Ahhalia Ramdass.
Cheers to continuing to Educate, Empower & Enable women and girls.
In commemoration of Membership month, May, SI Anaparima’s blog written by Ahhalia Ramdass focusses on these four new members and their reasons for becoming a Soroptimist.
This was published on the SIGBI Website (the link is also provided hereunder)
https://sigbi.org/anaparima/2024/05/31/membership-is-more-than-you-can-imagine/
Happy World Environment Day!
Our members commemorated WED with a bunch of very energetic standard 4s and 5s from St. Joseph Terrace Private School, sharing on this year’s themes: Land Restoration, Desertification and particularly, Drought Resilience.
Our Club is committed to working toward the UN’s 17 SDG’s, which includes combating desertification, halting biodiversity loss & habitat degradation (Goal 15). We had tons of fun spending some time reinforcing sustainable habits and heightening awareness of these issues.
We love the amazing and informative posters the students came up with!
We also took time on our national holidays last week to plant Poui trees at the Harmony Hall Recreation Ground; simultaneously burning some calories after our Indian Arrival Day Breakfast & spreading some love to our planet
SI Anaparima was well represented at SI San Fernando’s Endometriosis Challenge 3K Obstacle Race on Sunday 14th April, 2024 at Skinner Park.
In commemoration of International Women’s Day, SI Anaparima had the privilege of hosting a session at Naparima Girls High School to inspire inclusion in the field of entrepreneurship and business ownership.
The budding, aspiring business owners heard from 2 young entrepreneurs who have found success in their businesses and were eager to share their experiences with our little sisters.
As Soroptimists, Rupi Kaur’s question is forever on our minds: What can we do to make this mountain taller so the women after us can see farther?
SITT National Association extends congratulations and best wishes to our SI Anaparima sisters on their 5th Anniversary. Keep up the good work Sisters!
Soroptimist International clubs of T&T
Friendship Day 8th October 2023
Theme: The People Who Came
Soroptimist International Anaparima video- Indian Dance
SI Anaparima Back to School Drive
At the very core of Soroptimism are the projects we do to Educate, Enable and Empower women and girls to achieve their full potential. The members of our Club know that achieving this goal is largely dependent on the education of both our girls and boys.
Last year our Club covered booklists for 67 less fortunate primary and secondary school students and the year before that, 51 students. To us, that’s 67 boys and girls who will not be at a disadvantage to their peers because of inability to afford a text book. And that’s 67 children who are now one step closer to becoming contributing citizens in an increasingly challenging global economy.
We’re already in the process of collecting booklist requirements for these vulnerable children, and we’d appreciate your donations of any amount. Feel free to contact us via the numbers on the poster below for any further information
Training Sessions to commemorate Membership month.
As May Membership month continues with training sessions for our SI clubs, SI Anaparima had theirs this afternoon. Presenter was Sandra Dieffenthaller.
They simultaneously celebrated a member’s birthday.
At the end of the session “Teacher” Sandra gave a quiz and two lucky members won prizes
Happy Mother’s Day
To all the mothers, moms, mamas, mas we wish you an amazing day filled with love.
To the supermoms of our Club- the moms who juggle the intricacies of raising another human, with the stresses of their jobs and yet still enlist to spend their spare time giving back:
You see the value in teaching by doing. You are purposeful in showing your children how to love well and providing opportunities for them to give back too. Thank you for fighting to leave a better world for your little ones. Your time, service and effort are invaluable to our Club. Happy mothers’ day to our supermoms!
We love and appreciate you all.
SI ANAPARIMA
Winners in the Junior Category of the SITT National Association judging of the IMAGINE School Art Competition stand next to their lovely paintings
(From L-R) Naomi Mc Donald-Holy Name Convent, Point Fortin (Second Place winner ) and Samara Saroop -San Fernando Central Secondary- First Place Winner
SITT NATIONAL ASSOCIATION IMAGINE SCHOOL ART COMPETITION
Winners in the Senior and Junior Categories from SI Anaparima Club.
SI ANAPARIMA
IMAGINE- A World Without Violence Against Women and Girls
A school art competition!
SI Anaparima and SI San Fernando are proud to join with our National Association in this effort as we continue to raise awareness of issues facing women in this continue.
Following judging at our local club level, the winners will then join the display at NALIS, Port of Spain for national judging
SI Anaparima participated in the SI Friendship Day hosted by SI San Fernando at La Vega, Gran Couva on the 19th of March, 2023. They looked lovely in their attire representing the sixties which was the theme for the event.
Let’s Talk Endometriosis.
Tune in to our 3rd IG Live on Monday 20, March 2023 as we chat with our SIAN sister and Endo Warrior Leann Nanan-Habib and Trinidad and Tobago Endometriosis Association’s (TTEA) representative – Ms.Fadwa Aliyah Abdul-Ghafur R.D
Fadwa Aliyah Abdul-Ghafur R.D is a University of the West Indies graduate and holder of a bachelor’s degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics as well as a Post Grad in Institutional and Community Nutrition and Dietetics. Fadwa is a Holistic Health Practitioner and a Registered Dietitian with the Nutrition and Dietetics board of Trinidad and Tobago. She is the founder of the company “Lett’s Bewellthy Holistic Centre” which focuses on holistic health and wellness, holistic healing and health management, with a special interest in functional medicine, women’s reproductive health and wellness, Endometriosis, Adenomyosis, Fibroids and Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.
She has been a volunteer and passionate advocate for management better care for women and with the TTEA since 2017 and is currently the TTEA’s Health Director, on the board of directors as well as WearFit Community Women’s in house Consulting Holistic Practitioner and Dietitian Health. Fadwa is also a yoga practitioner with a passion for home gardening, healing arts, meditation and recipe development, as well as an Inductee into the Purple Dragon Caribbean Martial Arts Hall of Fame.
Let’s Talk Endometriosis.
Thank you to those who attended our first IG Live Session on Monday and for your questions and the overall success.
Tune in to our next IG Live on Saturday 18, March 2023. With our SIAN sister Leann Nanan-Habib and guest speaker Dr. Sasha Durga-Lyons.
Dr. Durga-Lyons is a specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist working in the field for over 13 years.
Initially she completed her MBBS at the UWI, then went on to become a member of the Royal College of Obstericians and Gynaecologists (UK) in 2017 and completed a Doctorate of medicine in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from the University of the West Indies in 2020. She is also a Fellow of ACOG (American college of obstetrics and gynaecology).
She is currently employed as a consultant at the Port-of-Spain General hospital, the SDA Community hospital and at Good Health Medical
What more can we do to make this mountain taller, so that women after us can see farther? This is Rupi Kaur’s burning question as well as our own.
The women in this picture are united by the common goal of Educating, Enabling and Empowering women and girls. Every day the women in our group uplift one another, and celebrate the big and the small- the birthdays, professional accomplishments, engagements etc. We encourage one another in our fitness journeys, healthy diets and careers.
Simultaneously, we look for ways to help #EmbraceEquity and eliminate gender bias so that the women and girls who face the brunt of the cost-of-living crisis, struggle under a gender pay gap, are denied an education, trafficked, abused, unloved, can also achieve full equality.
We are encouraged and inspired by the women and girls who champion these causes with us.
Happy International Women’s Day!
Safe Spaces-Shifting the conversation from awareness to accountability
Unhealthy expectations of young men and boys, including emotional suppression as well as the validation of ‘anger’ as one of the few emotions boys are allowed to express freely, are all directly linked to gender-based violence and sexual harrassment.
Gender-based violence is fueled largely by the harmful ideas and attitudes peddled to young boys about who they should be. Our conversations with the youths of the Cocoyea and Bayshore Police Youth Clubs were done in the hopes that this bunch might learn it right the first time.
The above article was also published by SIGBI via the following link:
https://sigbi.org/anaparima/2022/07/28/soroptimism-dreaming-of-and-working-towards-a-better-world/