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Soroptimists right around the globe: News from our Federations


SI Europe Christine Cromwell-Ahrens reports


Some 100 Soroptimists from all over Africa attended the 2011 Conference of the Proposed African Federation in Lomé.


Proposed African Federation Nairobi, Kenya will be the venue of


the joint conference of the Soroptimist International Proposed African Federation from 22nd-24th March 2012. The Eastern, Central and Western


Zones of Africa will also be represented, which includes the countries in the Federations of both Europe (SI/E) and Great Britain & Ireland (SIGBI).


Objective The main objective of this Conference


is to bring together Soroptimists from all over Africa and other Federations with the aim to work towards the effective


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creation of the SI African Federation (SIAF). The Conference will give our African Soroptimists the opportunity to share their ideas with the other Federations. The idea is to develop the criteria for


Register A registration form is available to download from www.soroptimist-kenya. org/nairobiconference. Please complete and return the form


election of an SI African Board as well as to evaluate efforts and achievements attained so far in the African Zones. ‘We look forward to seeing as many


members as possible in Nairobi, as this is a very important step towards the creation of an African Federation,’ says the newly appointed Project Manager for Africa Mariet Verhoef-Cohen, who is a past President of SI Europe.


by 15th January 2012 to one of these organisers: Vivian Namayi Namwalo, Eastern Region President, SI Future African Federation at sikenyaunion@ gmail.com or vinnam88@yahoo.com; Josephine Nwokedi, Western & Central Zone President, SI Future African Federation at udezulu.nwokedi@yahoo. com; and hostess Betty Yieke, Union of Kenya President at sikenyaunion@ gmail.com or byieke@yahoo.com.


SI Great Britain & Ireland Jane Slatter, SIGBI Director of Communications, reports


Celebrating reaching the target of £1m, l-r: International President Alice Wells; Hope & Homes’ Joe Glackin; SIGBI President, Liz Morgan-Lewis; SIGBI Project SIerra Liaison, Anne MacDonald OBE; SIA President Pat Donohue and SIE President, Kathy Kaaf. Alison Sutherland, International Project Liaison, was, very sadly, unable to be at the presentation.


SIGBI Conference 2011 SIGBI’s Annual Conference, held this year in Brighton, England, was an excellent event, welcoming over 1200 Soroptimists and guests from across the world. Special International guests were SI President Alice Wells, SIA President Pat Donohue and SIE President Kathy Kaaf;


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all of whom joined SIGBI President Liz Morgan-Lewis and SIGBI Project SIerra Liaison, Anne MacDonald to celebrate the success of SI’s Quadrennial Project: Project SIerra.


This amazing sum has been raised by Soroptimists from all four Federations to help support the charity’s work with women and children in Sierra Leone. Some of Project SIerra’s many achievements: 59 Street Children have been reunited with their families with a further 67 currently on the programme 164 Teenage Mums (with165 babies) have graduated from the


even greater numbers. SI President Alice, SIA President Pat and SIE President Kathy all addressed the Conference, updating delegates on all the activities within SI as a whole and the Americas and European Federations.


Together they presented a cheque for £1million to Joe Glackin, from the charity Hope & Homes for Children.


programme with 119 (with 99 babies) are currently enrolled. 200 Vulnerable Families (directly caring for over 1000 children) have graduated from the ACTIVE Family Support Programme


Community Hubs are now being introduced and this will enable future support to reach


New SIGBI website! Soroptimist International Great Britain and Ireland (SIGBI) has a new website www.sigbi.org with a new easy to remember address. There are multiple visual and navigational improvements to the new website including a map showing where clubs are geographically located across the Federation and also an extended search facility. Please visit us soon at www.sigbi.org


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