{"id":1099,"date":"2015-09-30T11:01:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T11:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/?page_id=1099"},"modified":"2025-10-03T09:04:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:04:26","slug":"volunteering-in-pretoria-vip-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/soroptimist-action\/volunteering-in-pretoria-vip-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">South Africa<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>For several years (2018-2024) the Soroptimist International Southern Region supported the following project in cooperation with our Friendship Link Soroptimist Clubs (SI Durban and SI Pretoria\/Tshwane).\u00a0 The project gave young women an opportunity to gain work experience.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Barbara Watts Volunteering in Pretoria\/Tshwane (VIP) Project<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">This project is currently under review.\u00a0 More information is available on the Regional website: <a title=\"SISE\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sigbi.org\/southern-england\">www.sigbi.org\/southern-england<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Ethiopia<\/h1>\n<p>Our Friendship Link Club, SI Stourbridge, has supported the <a href=\"https:\/\/hamlinfistulauk.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hamlin Fistula Hospital<\/a> in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for many years.\u00a0 \u00a0Woking Soroptimists are contributing to the effort to give blankets to women who go to the hospital for repair surgery following childbirth injury.<\/p>\n<p>We send a first batch of blankets in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>A further 20 blankets were sent in October 2025.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2023\/04\/Knitting-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6406\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2023\/04\/Knitting-2-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2023\/04\/Knitting-2-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2023\/04\/Knitting-2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hospital aims to end fistula in Ethiopia for good.\u00a0 It always needs blankets for the women who come for fistula repair surgery and for childbirth.<\/p>\n<p>The Hamlin College of Midwives in Addis Ababa trains midwives to BSc degree level. They go ont to work in rural health centres across<\/p>\n<p>across Ethiopia and change countless women\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p>Read the charity&#8217;s latest report\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hamlinfistulauk.org\/about-us\/annual-report-and-accounts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h1>Zambia<\/h1>\n<p>Early in 2024, the SI Woking Microfinance Group arranged a loan for\u00a0Stars 1102 in Zambia.\u00a0 Stars 1102 is a group of five businesswomen in Livingstone. Thel loan will help these women to care for their 24 dependents and also to run their family businesses &#8211; market stalls, shoe repair stalls and grocery stalls.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] South Africa For several years (2018-2024) the Soroptimist International Southern Region supported the following&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1099","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Africa | SI Woking and District | SIGBI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SIGBI : SI Woking and District : Africa 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