To find out what’s been going on in clubs around the world and for ideas about what you can do for your own event, simply download the latest Soroptimist Activity Update here (September 2009) 
These are just a fraction of the activities being undertaken. However, EVERY Project SIerra event is significant and will help transform the lives of vulnerable women and children in Sierra Leone.Please help us share news of your successes. Complete a Programme Focus Report for SI's database, tell your Federation Project Liaison and email details of your event to project.liaison@soroptimistinternational.org |
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 Lisbeth Hass (SI/E Liaison), Gerd Stenberg (SI Norway Ambassador) and Ruth Perderson (SI Tonder club, Denmark) selling cards and lithographs for Project SIerra at the Norwegian Friendship meeting in Bergen (June 2010)
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 SI London Chilterns (SIGBI) fair trade fashion show included dresses in material made by Project SIerra young mums in Bo
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 SI Horten (Norway, SI/E) held a Christmas market to support Project SIerra (Dec 2009)
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 SI Nihon Higashi Region (SI/A) Study Conference in Tokyo, Oct '09: (rt-left) Francesca Conate (speaker), Masako Harada and Keiko Tatsuma (Board members), Ikuko Tsunoda (Secretary)
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 Finance Committee member Akiko Takanashi at SI Nihon Higashi Region (SI/A) Study Conference in Tokyo, Oct '09
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 SI Dewsbury and Yorkshire region (SIGBI) sponsored a performance of African Sanctus, with choirs of Yorkshire Voices and Mighty Zulu Nation Dancers
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 Rick Foulsham (HHC), Anne MacDonald (SIGBI Liaison) and Jacque Emery (SI Canterbury, editor) at launch of Voices in Verse poetry anthology (Sept 2009)
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 SI Pine Rivers (SISWP) members supported Project SIerra with anti-trafficking experts for an International Women's Day radio show (March 2009)
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 '63' at 60! Jenny Vince (Chair, Soroptimist Residential Club '63'), SIGBI President Carwen and cake-maker Jackie Paling. The celebration cake was made a donated Project SIerra cake made for its 60th birthday.
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.jpg) Federation Project SIerra Liaisons Anne MacDonald (SIGBI) and Lisbeth Hass (SI Europe) at their Project SIerra stand at SI Europe's Convention in Amsterdam (July 2009)
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 Used bras collected so far by SI Reading, Wokingham & Bracknell (SIGBI) weighed in at 200 kilos. They are sold for re-use or recycling, and raise funds for Project SIerra.
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 Gerd Stenberg, Norwegian Project SIerra Ambassador, selling African products at the Union's Annual meeting in May 2009.
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 SI London Chilterns (SIGBI) celebrating International Day of Peace in Hyde Park, London, by doing a sponsored walk for Project SIerra (September 2008). |
Walk 2 New York: SI’s United Nations representatives met SIGBI Soroptimists in New York. |
Kathryn Carder did a sponsored bungee jump on behalf of Project Sierra at the world’s highest bungee jump at Bloukrans Bridge, South Africa (216 metres). |
Lisbeth Hass (SI Denmark Union, SIE) with Gift Cards being sold for Project Sierra. |
Chris Knight (SI Brisbane and SISWP Project Liaison) with The Jammed, an Australian film dealing with human trafficking. Project SIerra will benefit from Soroptimist sales and licensed screenings of The Jammed DVD (August 2008). |
Project SIerra display and craft sale at the Deception Bay Lady President's Lawn Bowls Day, Queensland, Australia (SI Brisbane, SISWP) (August 2008). |
A concert of Autumn Arias at Stormont Castle, Belfast, organised by SI Bangor (SIGBI) and raised £3,000. Project Ambassador Liz Woolley receives a cheque from Club and Region Presidents (September 2008). |
A quilt being made by Barbara Dixon (SI Cheshire North Wales & Wirral, SIGBI) from materials designed by young women at the Bo project. |
Francesca Conate (SIA) relaxes at the summit of Mt Fuji (August 2008) |
SI President Margaret invited Bobbi Buckle (SISWP) to model a lovely embroidered outfit from Sierra Leone at the SI South West Pacific Federation conference. The clothes were a gift from SI Freetown club to IP Margaret, who is pictured here with Bobbi. (June 2008) |
Members of SI Dyffryn Conwy (SIGBI) and friends enjoyed a “Just Desserts” party whilst raising funds for Project SIerra (July 2008) |
SI Eastwood (Phillipines, SIA) members, Malot Garde and Chit Balanquit sold home-made chocolate lollipops for Project SIerra at their region’s Soroptimist Stop Trafficking workshop (June 2008) |
Enid Roberts (right) of SI South Caernarfon club (SIGBI) presenting her beautiful embroidered Peace Garden picture to Joyce Anderson, Regional President of SI Cheshire, N Wales and Wirral (June 2008). |
SI South West Pacific Federation President, Lorna Mead, presenting SISWP Federation's first cheque for Project SIerra to International President, Margaret Lobo. SI Quadrennial Project Liaison Alison Sutherland in the background holds a Project SIerra t-shirt from SISWP.
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Edmonton (Western Canada, SIA) upholding a walkers’ tradition and throwing a pebble into the Irish Sea before leaving on a fundraising walk across North England. |
Margaret Lobo, International President of Soroptimist International,
visiting the projects in Sierra Leone
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SI Logan (South Queensland, SISWP) members with SISWP Federation Liaison Chris Knight (2nd from right) prepared a meal with Sierra Leonean recipes from the SI Club Protocol. |
SI Llandudno Club Charter Lunch. (l-r) Betty Williams MP, SI Llandudno President Sandra Snow, guest speaker Rosaline Thomspon and Anne MacDonald OBE, SIGBI Quadrennial Project Liaison. |
SI Pine Rivers (South Queensland, SISWP) invited local secondary pupils to screen print Project SIerra t-shirts. |
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