{"id":4837,"date":"2020-08-22T14:37:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T14:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/?p=4837"},"modified":"2020-08-22T15:38:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T15:38:27","slug":"women-water-and-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/2020\/08\/22\/women-water-and-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Women, Water and Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Women, Water and Leadership &#8211; The Soroptimist International President&#8217;s Appeal 2017-19<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Soroptimists are all about Women and Leadership.\u00a0 But why Water?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Because <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">water is vital &#8211; without a regular and clean supply, making things better for people is tough.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The 2017-19 Soroptimist President, Mariet Verhoef-Cohen is committed to enabling women to help their communities.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">She knows that if you help women to\u00a0 be leaders in their community, you can help everyone to improve.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">And she saw that a project in which women are helped to give their community a good water supply would give good results.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">So for the two years of her presidency, Mariet championed the Women, Water and Leadership project.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Soroptimist Cooperation can achieve a lot!<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Many Soroptimist International Clubs around the world helped to raise the money needed to run this project in several different countries.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Some Clubs were very active and raised a lot of money.\u00a0 Some Clubs focused on other things and sent a small amount of money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The important thing was that when our contributions were put together,\u00a0 it added up to a lot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">See the difference we all made collectively &#8211; read the report<a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.soroptimistinternational.org\/flipbooks\/women-water-and-leadership\/?page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">A new Soroptimist International two-year project<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Now there is a new Soroptimist International President &#8211; Sharon Fisher &#8211;\u00a0 and a new two-year project &#8211; The Road to Equality.\u00a0 Find out more about it <a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/our-projects\/the-road-to-equality-si-presidents-appeal-2019-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Women, Water and Leadership &#8211; The Soroptimist International President&#8217;s Appeal 2017-19 Soroptimists are all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[70,69,6],"class_list":["post-4837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-weve-been-up-to-recently","tag-leadership","tag-water","tag-women-and-girls"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Women, Water and Leadership | News | Blog | Events | SI Woking and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Woking and District : Blog &amp; News : Women, Water and Leadership : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Woking and District . 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