Women young and old are diagnosed with ovarian cancer a silent often deadly disease. Early detection by recognising the symptoms, keeping a symptom diary, accessing clinical evaluation and tests can save a life or expose other hidden female abdominal issues. As working women, wives, mothers, carers, it easy to fail to listen to your body, hesitate to bother a GP and miss that appointment due to limited time. Late diagnosis can mean the difference. During March SI Weybridge & District is sharing information from one of the leading Ovarian Cancer charities, please share our posts to other women. On International Women’s Day this years theme of #embracingequity in the use of #digitalinnovation and technology is close to our aim of improving women’s well being and health. On #IWD2023 check yourself for the symptoms, discuss the symptoms and information sources with other women over a coffee,
PRIORITISING EDUCATION: EMPOWERING WOMEN AND GIRLS As we meet this month and next to define our UK Program Action for 2023/2024, enabling the education of girls in STEM subjects is high on the agenda. We are seeking women with experience and an interest in STEM education to help us with project definition and even a local partnership. If you’d like to contribute time or expertise and influence our project work Soroptimists in Elmbridge would love to hear from you, contact Ann (SIWAD Communications Officer) at annmaloneyuk@gmail.com initially. On 24 January 2023, Soroptimist International (SI) hosted a webinar to celebrate International Day of Education by showcasing our Federation’s important education projects from around the globe. The webinar was exceptionally well attended, seeing hundreds of members from over 30 different countries joining! Maureen Maguire Federation President led the seminar; each Soroptimist Federation President illustrated how their Federation
We welcome an influential female Afghan Refugee who is living locally to discuss first hand issues refugees women and girls face in the UK community this week. Dinner at 7pm, Speaker then Business Meeting where we will discuss Program Action for 2023/2024 including STEM action, Community Action, #IWD2023, the AGM planning and SI support for Syria/Turkey and SriLanka Next months meeting is on March 16th, diary the date now so we give our guest speaker a hearty welcome and take the opportunity to lobby and raise our concerns.
SIGBI has released a statement following the devastating earthquake in Syria and Turkey, and has made a donation of £2,000 to the Red Cross from the Emergency Relief Fund. You can read SIGBI’s statement on the SIGBI Website, and access details of how to make your own donations: https://sigbi.org/2023/syria-and-turkey-earthquake-statement-from-soroptimist-international-great-britain-and-ireland/ The U.K. Government is match funding donations to the Disaster Emergency Committee for the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. Follow the link if you want to donate https://www.dec.org.uk/?gclid=CjwKCAiArY2fBhB9EiwAWqHK6tRyeAONr7eRjGg6VLDXmtx_r3UsWCU9aL9_BZaEfslRtAcP8t8CjBoCDGcQAvD_BwE
2022 was a busy year for all foodbanks and their sterling work is essential community action enabling low income individuals and families to survive week to week and gain training access and practical advice and help. Weybridge & District Soroptimists donate every quarter filling gaps and supplying seasonal items. Our 21 #elmbridge members wholeheartedly support the wonderful volunteers and so appreciate their hard work and dedication. We were delighted to meet the local manager when she spoke about their wider work at a meeting this year. Club members ‘walk and talk’ about their work and raise it whenever we run fundraisers for our other partners. It’s amazing how few people know how to donate so we spread the word, some ask SI to do so on their behalf giving us cash or items. Just this week we donated more cash from friends and during
Weybridge Soroptimists #Orangetheworld..(Women helping Women) with £2050 donation to Surrey Domestic Abuse 20th January 2023 – the #Soroptimist Club in #Elmbridge summarised the proceeds from the #OrangetheWorld Club activities in November. Shop support, posters and window dressings, social media campaign and walking and talking in Weybridge, Walton on Thames and Molesey/Thames Ditton preceeded a fundraising successful coffee morning and donations for the chosen charity. Mary, a #Cobham based #soroptimist who has joined this year co-ordinated a hugely successful Bring & Buy sale which was wonderfully supported by local members, women and another SI club, it raised £362.80. Brenda and Dee existing #Weybridge and District soroptimists held a raffle at the coffee morning, the fabulous prizes donated by the Club members created a buzz and a further £355.00 was added. Members who lit up their front gardens and porches and social media and the coffee morning held
November 25th #16DaysOfActivism Elmbridge women raised over £660 at a coffee morning organised by #siweybridgeanddistrict last Friday. Six generous spontaneous cash donors added more…£295. An incredible woman donor match funded EVERY POUND AND MORE. #elmbridgesoroptimists can now donate £2000 to #northsurreydomesticabuse part of Citizens Advice, a local ‘public’ service supporting women and families through trauma, domestic abuse, fear and coercive control, also advising on refuge, legalities and outreach support Local community action for women, by women, supported by donations from men who want to ensure we stamp out violence and abuse.
25th November 2022 – UN Day for the Elimination of Violence against women and girls and start of #16daysofactivism #Weybridge Soroptimists walk and talk, provide information and posters to traders, dress the #elmbridge localities with ‘oranges’, and highlight the importance of the UN global #orangetheworld effort to help change attitudes and femicide. See the 20221 UN report here. Thank you to #SouthernRailHamptonCourt for displaying our poster alongside your ‘white ribbon’ poster. Powerful in combination. A reminder to those travelling with ill intent. https://www.unwomen.org/…/five-essential-facts-to-know… #hamptoncourt # 16daysofactionagainstgenderbasedviolence #16DaysOfAction #womensupportingwomen #westandupforwomen #womenempowerment #stopdomesticabuse
