Perth
Perth (8 members)
Chartered: 03 Aug 1949
| Meeting Time | 2nd Thurs AND 4th Thurs both at 6.15 pm for 6.30 |
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| Venue | TBA |
| Correspondence: | PO Box 321 West Perth WA 6872 |
| Country | Australia |
| siperth@siseap.org | |
| https://www.facebook.com/pages/Soroptimist-International-Perth-Club-Australia/225648374261507 |
About Perth
SI Perth is part of Soroptimist International. We are committed to a world where women and girls together achieve their individual and collective potential, realise aspirations and have an equal voice in creating strong, peaceful communities worldwide. The name "Soroptimist" was created by combining the Latin words soror "sister" and optima "best", and therefore mean "best for women".
SI Perth meets every second Thursday evening. There is one business meeting and one social meeting each month.
Potential members are welcome. If you are interested, please email siperth@siseap.org
Projects
We initiate projects at local, national and international level that focus on empowering women and girls to improve their lives and status.
Florence Rutter Scholarship - Curtin University
SI Perth is awarding a scholarship for a PHD student for a Carrolup research project for the next three years.
Seventy-five years ago, 71-year old Englishwoman Mrs Florence Rutter and her friend Vera Hack arrived for a two and a half day visit of Carrolup Native Settlement. This visit was not only special in its own right, but it triggered a series of important events that still resonate today. She found the children at the settlement had incredible artistic skills. She exhibited the children’s artworks in the Netherlands, England and Scotland to great public acclaim during 1950-52.
The art work went missing for many years and was found in the basement of the Colgate University and brought back to Curtin University in 2013.
Mrs Rutter, who was Founder President of the Central London Soroptimist Club, was visiting Australia in 1949 to see the state of the Soroptimist Movement in Australia and set up new Soroptimist clubs.
Every Daughter Matters (Nepal - Rescuing Nepal's Daughters from Human Trafficking
SI Perth supports Every Daughters Matters in Nepal. Approximately 20,000 Nepalis go missing acorss the border into India every single year and 1.5 million Nepalis are at risk of human trafficking.
Approximately 38% of the population in Nepal are on or below the poverty line. Every Daughters Matter intercepts vulnerable Nepali girls at risk of human trafficking and stops abuse before it happens