Walking though Charing Cross, London yesterday Soroptimist Caroline my friend could not help but notice the enormous electronic bill board over #CouttsBank. Today is International Women’s Day. Well done @Coutts, great to see businesses heralding the successes of women leaders in a world dominated in business by men on IWD.
Soroptimists enable the celebration of this day joining with partners around the world to celebrate the successes and achievements of women, the empowerment and enablement of the many organisations striving to educate girls, women and work returners. It’s a day when we can cherish special women in our life, our bestie, a neighbour, a lonely relative who you don’t call up enough, teachers who inspire and educate girls to aim high, paramedics and nurses who cherish our loved ones when they are ill, our girls, our daughters who are striving to redress the losses caused for working women by Covid. All women deserve a shout out – a cuppa and walk, a coffee, a flower, but most of all respect and praise and encouragement to help other women and girls around the world to access, education, esteem, confidence, competence and capability to support families, them selves, their kin and other women.
Does that sound like you? Then you might be interested in our worldwide one hundred year women’s collective; soroptimist clubs prevail in most parts of the world and welcome girls and women who want to join with like minded aspirational friends to enable change and move the bar to success whether it’s in a village with enabling a WaterAid project, toilet twinning for improved privacy for women and sanitation, in helping @RosieMayFoundation to supply a Women operated @PinkTukTuk to safely transport girls to school or in working with vulnerable refugees in local hotel rooms, women and families in refuges, domestic abuse situations and fragile disadvantaged communities. Find your local club, meet a member for a chat, Zoom into a program action meeting, join an event, maybe you’ll find satisfaction, motivation and new friends.
https://www.un.org/en/observances/womens-day
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