SI Cannock and District Projects

Each Soroptimist International club identifies the needs of its community, then establishes specific projects to address these needs. All our projects relate to one or more of the six Programme Focus Areas: Economic and Social Development, Education, Environment, Health, Human Rights and the Status of Women, and International Goodwill and Understanding.

More information is available in the Our Work pages, where you can read more about the current Programme Focus aims and the Quadrennial Project, supported by all clubs in the Federation.

The projects listed below include some of the local and international issues we research and support in SI Cannock and District:

South African Creche and Nurse Training

Over the last few years Cannock club has fully equipped one creche in a township near Capetown,South Africa and has almost finished equipping a second. The club has also paid for the training of two nurses to work in the townships.

This work has been made possible because of the hard work of one of the members of our club who spends a few months each year in South Africa. She has seen first hand the needs of the people of the black townships and has been able to personally supervise the allocation of the funds.

The Railway Children

The Railway Children charity is President Lakhwinder's special project for the year. She has seen first hand the plight of the street children of India and it is a project very close to her heart.

Last year alone the charity helped over 24,000 street children around the world. For more information go to:


http://www.railwaychildren.org.uk/