Nakuru County, meaning ‘a dusty place’ is located North-West of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, situated in the former ...
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The annual Nordic Soroptimist meeting was held on 22 and 23 June 2018 in the Icelandic town of Akureyri with the theme ‘Our Environment and Energy – Using it without Losing it’. Over 180 Soroptimists from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, and Switzerland were inspired by nine influential speakers on the theme.
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The United Nations World Refugee Day is celebrated on 20 June every year. The world celebrates so that we do not forget the needs and contributions of those millions of people who have fled their countries because of conflict or persecution, and are in fear of returning.
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Soroptimist International (SI) and Women for Water Partnership (WfWP) members, together with the Ngara Girls High School, Nairobi, mobilised school girls, women and other like-minded stakeholders to participate in a school environment clean-up and tree planting event, to mark this year’s World Environment Day.
A luncheon to celebrate SI Chicago’s anniversary was held at the Tam O’Shanter Golf Course in Niles Illinois, on ...
On World Environment Day, Bev Bucur takes a closer look at what is in the water.
Speakers at a recent conference organised by UNA House, Edinburgh, Scotland discussed the importance for every country and every individual to play their part in mitigating the effects of climate change, especially global warming.
WeWash, a new transformative and sustainable project is now underway as part of the SI Women, Water & Leadership Appeal (WWL) 2017-2019. Beginning early May, WeWash (Women empowerment through water, sanitation, and health), is reshaping the lives of unemployed and low-income women and girls in the villages of Sulitsa, Sladak kladenets, Preslaven and Kalitinovo in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.
Soroptimist Bianca Leemkuil from the Netherlands, surprised Mallika with a cheque for €55.000, as a donation to the unique and progressive programme School for Justice, which was set up in Mumbai, India in 2017. Securing massive media attention around the world, the ground-breaking programme which rescues girls from child prostitution, educates and trains girls to become lawyers and prosecutors, and in doing so, affords them the power to prosecute the criminals that once owned them.
On 3 May 2018, Utrecht University celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with a keynote address and panel discussion entitled ‘Leadership in Human Rights, Diversity, and Inclusion’.
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