SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL

SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL (SI) is a world wide organisation for women in management and the professions, working through service projects and through international goodwill and understanding, to advance human rights and the status of women.   The first Soroptimist Club was formed in 1921 in Oakland, California.   The first Clubs in Europe were chartered in 1924.   The Soroptimist world continues to grow and now  SI is the world's largest classified service organisation for women with around 100,000 members in over 3,000 clubs in 122 countries spread across the four Federations  -

• Soroptimist International of Great Britain and Ireland

• Soroptimist International of the Americas

• Soroptimist International of Europe

• Soroptimist International of South West Pacific.

SI has direct access to the United Nations and a voice at United Nations centres in New York, Geneva, Vienna and UNESCO, Paris.

SI is committed to

• service to local, national and international communities
• active participation in decision making at all levels of society.

The current project, in partnership with Women for Women International, will assist women who have been victims of war in three countries:

• Afghanistan
• Bosnia
• Rwanda.

The project will provide:

• direct aid and support through the Sponsorship Program
• training in vocational and leadership skills through the Renewing Women's Life Skills Program
• loans to establish income-generating projects through the Microcredit Lending Program.

Visit the Project Independence website for more details.

SI joins forces with other international women's organisations in Project-Five-O which supports vocational training for women and girls in developing countries and countries in transition.

Every year on 10th December (Human Rights Day) to mark Soroptimist International Day, members donate money to the International President's Appeal  which is used to help women in extreme poverty.

Membership of a Soroptimist Club is by invitation with members being  representative of a wide range of occupations in business and the professions.   Any Soroptimist can attend meetings of any Club anywhere in the world and can also participate in meetings and conferences world wide.

Each club chooses what projects it wishes to undertake to under the following areas:-

• Economic and Social Development,
• Education
• Environment
• Health
• Human Rights/Status of women
• International Goodwill and Understanding.

To find out more about Soroptimist International visit the web site www.soroptimistinternational.org 

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