Economic and Social Development
Eliminate poverty and gender discrimination through ensuring women’s full social and economic rights.
Project SIerra
SI Poole is committed to supporting Soroptimist International’s global quadrennial project, Project Sierra. Project SIerra is a 4 year partnership between Soroptimist International and Hope & Homes for Children which aims to raise more than £1m to help transform the lives of some of the world’s most deprived women and children, in Sierra Leone.
Soroptimist International of Poole has a comprehensive programme of fund-raising in 2010/11 and the club is committed to providing a further donation, in addition to those already made, to Project SIerra in the coming year.
Mayor of Poole’s Christmas Parcels Fund
SI Poole is represented on the Mayor of Poole’s Christmas Parcels Fund and members contribute by helping with fund-raising and distributing parcels to selected Poole residents at Christmas.
Save the Children
Soroptimist International of Great Britain and Ireland and Save the Children UK are partnership organisations. SI Poole is represented on Save the Children. At the club meeting on 8 November 2010, Save the Children goods will be available to support Save the Children’s work. Last year, members clubbed together to purchase a yak in lieu of giving one another Christmas cards.
Sweatshops
The club is currently running a project on sweatshops, as highlighted at the SIGBI conference in Cardiff in October 2009.
Other
On a personal level, members support Fairtrade, give donations and sign petitions.