SI Perth 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 Perth:
International Day of Peace
September 21st 2007, SI Perth invited members of the public to join them in recognising International Day of Peace by lighting candles in Perth's St John's Kirk.
Books Aloud
Members of SI Perth have become library volunteers to introduce this service, story telling for adults in care homes,throughout the Perth & Kinross area. A themed box of books and some associated material is provided by Perth & Kinross Access Services
Normally two volunteers take the hour long session, allowing plenty of flexability of presentation which is crucial as each care home and its residents has different needs.
Women's Aid
For some years SI Perth has supported the local branch of Women's Aid in financial terms. This year we are also offering the organisation practical assistance in three separate areas.
As an ongoing exercise we donate household goods for use in refuges or safe houses. We have also donated basic toiletries for women (and sometimes children) who have newly arrived. On discovering that there were 27 children, aged from 1 to 14, among those presently in refuges SI Perth members donated Christmas gifts for each child.
Women Survivors of War
SI Perth sponsor a lady in Rwanda, allowing her access to a microcredit scheme and training which in turn assists her to provide for her family's needs.
Rwanda is working to restore its social and economic infrastructure following the genocide of 1994.
Two members of the club regularly correspond with our Rwandan sister, giving friendship, encouragement and motivation. The two way correspondence has included photographs and the sharing of details of our respective lives and countries.