{"id":208,"date":"2016-04-25T12:33:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T12:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/?p=208"},"modified":"2016-04-25T12:33:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T12:33:05","slug":"international-womens-day-dinner-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/2016\/international-womens-day-dinner-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"International Womens Day Dinner 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wakefield\/files\/i-PFwSbX5-XL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-209\" src=\"\/wakefield\/files\/i-PFwSbX5-XL-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"James Images\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/i-PFwSbX5-XL-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/i-PFwSbX5-XL.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> Members of SI Wakefield along with members of sister clubs from across Yorkshire came together at\u00a0a fundraising dinner\u00a0to mark International Womens Day recently. The event was held on the 17th March at the Cedar Court Hotel Wakefield and raised \u00a38,000 which will be used to support\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461586862483_2663\">Tasibeh Girls School in Pindi, Pakistan. The school is located in a very poor region of Pakistan and now educates over 100 girls and provides additional practical and financial support for many of their families. The school was set up and is supported by women from across the communities in Rotherham and South Yorkshire led by Khalida Luqman and her family.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461586862483_2627\">\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461586862483_2626\">Local \u00a0author Marina Lewycka was the guest speaker at the dinner. Marina is best known for her novel \u2018A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian\u2019, which sold over a million copies in the UK alone. She has donated short stories to Oxfam and Amnesty International and is trustee of a little charity called &#8216;Counterpoints Arts&#8217; which is about promoting refugee and migrant artists, and encouraging them to tell their migration stories through the arts. Marina was herself born in a refugee camp in Germany in 1946 and moved to England with her family when she was about a year old. Marina talked about her life and read extracts from her writings on the evening and has a new book due to published in April.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"\/wakefield\/files\/i-XJRprwh-XL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-210\" src=\"\/wakefield\/files\/i-XJRprwh-XL-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"James Images\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/i-XJRprwh-XL-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/i-XJRprwh-XL.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/wakefield\/files\/untitled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-211 size-medium\" src=\"\/wakefield\/files\/untitled-300x195.png\" alt=\"untitled\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/untitled-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/untitled.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of SI Wakefield along with members of sister clubs from across Yorkshire came together&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":520,"featured_media":211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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>International Womens Day Dinner 2016 | News | Blog | Events | Wakefield and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Wakefield and District : Blog &amp; News : International Womens Day Dinner 2016 : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of Wakefield and District . 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