{"id":6062,"date":"2022-05-04T13:34:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T13:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/?p=6062"},"modified":"2022-05-17T14:31:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T14:31:18","slug":"may-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/2022\/05\/04\/may-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2022 &#8211; Holiday at Home &#8211; Meru Women&#8217;s Garden Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\u2018HOLIDAY AT HOME\u2019<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2022\/05\/Clare-Nix_Holiday-at-Home_May-2022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6069\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2022\/05\/Clare-Nix_Holiday-at-Home_May-2022-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We hear a lot these days about taking a holiday at home, because the Covid-19 pandemic prevented us from travelling abroad.\u00a0 At our May Social Meeting, Woking Soroptimists learned about a holiday at home with a difference.\u00a0 Claire Nix, our speaker, told us about the two-day event organised by the Church of the Good Shepherd in Pyrford every year. &#8216;Holiday at Home&#8217; is for the more senior members in the community. During the two days, the &#8216;holidaymakers&#8217; enjoy a wide variety of activities.\u00a0 Find out more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisleywithpyrford.org\/community-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h1>Meru Women&#8217;s Garden Project<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2022\/05\/Meru.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6063 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2022\/05\/Meru-300x203.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Meru Women&#8217;s Garden Project was a Great Britain and Ireland four-year project, 2015-18.\u00a0 \u00a0In cooperation with child.org, Soroptimists aimed to teach women in the Meru district of Kenya\u00a0 to grow their own vegetables and take surplus produce to market.\u00a0 The women received horticulture training and other support.\u00a0 SI Woking partnered with the members of SI Weybridge to raise funds for the project.\u00a0 They organised a fashion show with afternoon tea in 2016 and again in 2018, and raised around \u00a33,000 for the Meru project.<\/p>\n<p>We support many projects for a limited time and we like to know how successful they are in the longer term.\u00a0 Now we have heard from Margaret Ikiara how the project has been doing since 2018.\u00a0 \u00a0Margaret Ikiari reported that the original aims are still being met.\u00a0 \u00a0Women have learned to grow vegetables and to run a successful business by taking a market stall with other women to sell surplus produce.\u00a0 As a result, the women understand their potential. They are empowered to play a more prominent role in their community.\u00a0 The charity behind the project has added further actions and help in the last four years.\u00a0 There are, for example, sexual health programmes, FGM information programmes for schoolgirls and communities (recommending an alternative to the traditional rite), information programmes for men and boys.\u00a0 There is practical support for teenage mothers who learn useful economic skills such as beadwork, hairdressing and beauty therapy, in addition to childcare.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2022\/05\/Meru-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6064 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2022\/05\/Meru-2-300x257.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Margaret Ikiari also mentioned plans for the future.\u00a0 They want to offer accommodation to battered women or teenage mothers rejected by their family.\u00a0 They also need more sewing machines for the Sanitary provision project.\u00a0 And more water tanks for the gardens are always in demand.\u00a0 To learn more, you can contact Ciford <a href=\"https:\/\/cifordkenya.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018HOLIDAY AT HOME\u2019 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; We hear a lot these&#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":[],"class_list":["post-6062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-weve-been-up-to-recently"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>May 2022 - Holiday at Home - Meru Women&#039;s Garden Project | News | Blog | Events | SI Woking and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Woking and District : Blog &amp; News : May 2022 - Holiday at Home - Meru Women&#039;s Garden Project : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Woking and District . 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