Project SIerra - a family and a future

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Project SIerra is inspiring Soroptimists around the world to get involved. Members are using their own talents and tapping into skills and experience within their local communities to raise awareness and inspire advocacy and action.

Here are just some of the many exciting and inventive ways in which Soroptimists have been raising awareness and funds:

showing the Project SIerra DVD at meetings and events
workshops, club open evenings, presentations using Project SIerra materials and members’ own research and local experience
features on Project SIerra in Union, region and club magazines and websites
exhibition displays, translations of Project SIerra material
coffee mornings, lunches, tea parties, cocktail parties, dinners
Sierra Leone and Africa themed meals and events
auctions and raffles, with gifts donated by local businesses, members and friends

Click here to download The Ideas Bank which is full of great ideas and examples of what Soroptimists across the globe are doing to help make Project SIerra a success.

To find out what’s been going on in clubs around the world and for ideas about what you can do for your own event, simply download the latest activity report here. These are just a fraction of the activities being undertaken. However, EVERY Project SIerra event is significant and will help transform the lives of vulnerable women and children in Sierra Leone.Please help us share news of your successes. Complete a Programme Focus Report for SI's database, tell your Federation Project Liaison and email details of your event to project.liaison@soroptimistinternational.org

SI President Margaret invited Bobbi Buckle (SISWP) to model a lovely embroidered outfit from Sierra Leone at the SI South West Pacific Federation conference. The clothes were a gift from SI Freetown club to IP Margaret, who is pictured here with Bobbi. (June 2008)	SI Eastwood (Phillipines, SIA) members, Malot Garde and Chit Balanquit sold home-made chocolate lollipops for Project SIerra at their region’s Soroptimist Stop Trafficking workshop (June 2008)	Enid Roberts (right) of SI South Caernarfon club (SIGBI) presenting her beautiful embroidered Peace Garden picture to Joyce Anderson, Regional President of SI Cheshire, N Wales and Wirral (June 2008).
Members of SI Dyffryn Conwy (SIGBI) and friends enjoyed a “Just Desserts” party whilst raising funds for Project SIerra (July 2008)	Margaret Lobo, International President of Soroptimist International, visiting the projects in Sierra Leone	SI South West Pacific Federation President, Lorna Mead, presenting SISWP Federation's first cheque for Project SIerra to International President, Margaret Lobo. SI Quadrennial Project Liaison Alison Sutherland in the background holds a Project SIerra t-shirt from SISWP.

Carell Wingrave SI Edmonton (Western Canada, SIA) upholding a walkers’ tradition and throwing a pebble into the Irish Sea before leaving on a fundraising walk across North England.	SI Pine Rivers (South Queensland, SISWP) invited local secondary pupils to screen print Project SIerra t-shirts.	SI Llandudno Club Charter Lunch. (l-r) Betty Williams MP, SI Llandudno President Sandra Snow, guest speaker Rosaline Thomspon and Anne MacDonald OBE, SIGBI Quadrennial Project Liaison.
SI Logan (South Queensland, SISWP) members with SISWP Federation Liaison Chris Knight (2nd from right) prepared a meal with Sierra Leonean recipes from the SI Club Protocol.

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